Captain Patrick Heron was a British Army officer in Nova Scotia during King George's War.

[1] Patrick Heron was born in the town of Mains of Larg around the year 1690.

At age sixteen he traveled to London to learn commercial pursuits but ended up taking a position on a slaver bound for Guinea.

In 1737 Heron was stationed at Canso, Nova Scotia, a position which, despite a court martial, he held until he surrendered the town after a French surprise attack in May of 1744.

In Boston, they provided the Massachusetts leadership with valuable intelligence concerning the defences of the fortification at Louisbourg, which made possible its capture the following year.