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The United Empire Loyalists of Remsheg; refugees from the American Revolution.
Location: Remsheg Harbour now Wallace Harbour

 
Mi'kmaq village. Painting by Barbara Clark showing daily life at Remsheg before the Europeans.
1 of 11 		There were trees growing to the shore when the United Empire Loyalists arrived in Remsheg.
2 of 11 		Chart showing one of the ways, by vessel, the loyalists traveled to Remsheg for the first time, 1784
3 of 11 		Remsheg (Wallace Harbour) viewing west into the Bay. Part of property granted Daniel Pugsley
4 of 11 		Famous image of Loyalists drawing lots for one of the 200 acre farm lots surveyed in the Grant. 1784
5 of 11 		Wallace Harbour,formerly Remsheg Harbour, facing North East, entering the Northumberland Strait
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Herons on Oyster Island in Wallace Harbour
7 of 11 		Trees and forest to the shore, a valuable resource, when the first refugees arrived in 1783-1784
8 of 11 		The map of the Remsheg Grant, part of the Westchester Grant which is present day Wallace
9 of 11 		Section of 1848 Navigation Chart done by Captain James Cook and others.
10 of 11 		A section of an 1848 Chart showing Wallace and Fanningboro, drawn and constructed by Cook and others
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