East Jeddore is a small rural fishing community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
During the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet War, in July 1722 the Abenaki made an effort to create a blockade of the capital of Nova Scotia Annapolis Royal.
John Robinson in two sloops with regiments to protect the fishery at Canso, Nova Scotia and retrieve the captured vessels and prisoners.
Eliot made a surprise attack on forty Natives on a ship at present-day Jeddore Harbour.
He then arrived at present-day Lunenburg, Nova Scotia where the natives held five of the fishing vessels along with twenty prisoners.