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Governors of Isle Royale/Cape Breton Island
Isle Royale part of Acadia (1605)
1605
English colony at Baleine (1629)
Governor
French settlement (1636-1690)
Administrators
1636 - January 30, 1654: Nicolas Denys de Fronsac
January 30, 1654 - 1655[?]: Email le Gorgne
1655[?] - 1690[?]: Nicolas Denys de Fronsac
British occupation (1711-1713)
- Governor
September 15, 1711 - 2 September 2, 1713: Sir Hovenden Walker (b. c.1656 - d. 1728)
France Settlement - Separate Colony (1713-1745) (1749-1758)
Governors
September 2, 1713 - October 2, 1714: Joseph Monbeton de Brouillan de Saint-Ovide (b. 1676 - d. 1755)
October 2, 1714 - September 16, 1717: Philippe Pastour, sieur de Costebelle (b. 1661 - d. 1717)
September
16, 1717 - September 10, 1739: Joseph Monbeton de Brouillan de Saint-Ovide
(acting to April 1718)
September 10, 1739 - May 10, 1740: Isaac-Louis de Forant (b. c.1658 - d. 1740)
May 10, 1740 - November 2, 1740: de Bourville (acting)
November 2, 1740 - October 9, 1744: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Prévost du Quesnel (b. 1685 - d. 1744)
October 9, 1744 - 16 July 16, 1745: Louis du Pont du Chambon (acting) (b. 1679 - d. 1775)
British occupation (1745-1749)
Governors
July 16, 1745 - June 2, 1746: Sir Peter Warren (b. 1703 - d. 1752) (acting to August, 1745)
June 2, 1746 - September, 1747: Charles Knowles (b. c.1704 - d. 1777)
September, 1747 - July 12 1749: Peregrine Thomas Hopson (acting) (b. c.1685 - d. 1759)
July 23, 1749 - September 13, 1751: Charles des Herbiers de la Ralière (b. c.1700 - d. 1752)
August 4, 1751 - October, 1753: Jean-Louis de Raymond, comte de Raymond (b. c.1702 - d. 1771)
October, 1753 - August 15, 1754: Charles Joseph d'Ailleboust (b. 1688 - d. 1761) (acting)
August 15, 1754 - July 26, 1758: Augustin de Boschenry, chevalier de Drucourt (b. 1703 - d. 1762)
British occupation (1758-1763)
Commanders
July 26, 1758 - 30 August 30, 1758: Jeffrey Amherst (b. 1717 - d. 1797)
August 30, 1758 - October 7, 1763: Edward Whitmore (b. c. 1694 - d. 1761)
Nova Scotia (1763-1784)
October 7, 1763 - August 26, 1784: direct rule from Nova Scotia
Colony of Cape Breton Island (1784-1820)
- Lieutenant-governors
August 26, 1784 - 1787: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (b. 1722 - d. 1824)
1787 - May 27, 1795: William Macarmick (b. 1742 - d. 1815)
May 27, 1795 - June 21, 1798: David Mathews (acting) (b. 17.. - d. 1800)
June 29, 1798 - June 21, 1799: James Ogilvie (acting) (b. c.1741 - d. 1813)
June 21, 1799 - September 16, 1800: John Murray
September 16, 1800 - July 6, 1807: John Despard
July 6, 1807 - June 1, 1813: Nicholas Nepean
June 1, 1813 - February 6, 1816: Hugh Swayne (b. 17.. - d. 1836)
February 6, 1816 - November 4, 1816: Fizherbert (acting)
November 4, 1816 - June 22, 1830: George Robert Ainslie (b. 1776 - d. 1839)
June 22, 1820 - October 9, 1820: David Stewart (acting)
Nova Scotia (1820-Present)