Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

Lawrencetown (1986 population: 2,680) is a Canadian rural community in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749.

[1] To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax (1749), Bedford (Fort Sackville) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), Lunenburg (1753) and Lawrencetown (1754).

The Acadians and natives resisted the British occupation of Nova Scotia and Acadia by raiding the various communities.

In late April 1754, at the outbreak of the French and Indian War, Joseph Broussard and a large band of Mi'kmaq and Acadians left Chignecto for Lawrencetown.