Point of Interest
Fort Gaspereau / Fort Monckton
Street Address: Fort Moncton Road, Westmorland, NB
Fort Gaspereau, located on Baie Verte on the Northumberland Strait, was built to support the main French defence work at Fort Beausejour. With the British Royal Navy dominating the Bay of Fundy, the French developed a more secure supply route which ran across the Isthmus of Chignecto to Fort Gaspereau. It was built in the summer of 1751 and consisted of a square palisaded work with blockhouse-type bastions, enclosing six buildings. The day following the surrender of Fort Beausejour to Colonel Monckton, Fort Gaspereau was occupied by Colonel John Winslow. The British renamed the fortification Fort Monckton and occupied it for the remainder of the Seven Years War. It is a National Historic Site and includes a small military graveyard of nine British soldiers killed in an ambush by Natives in April 1756.
Memorial Cairn Fort Gaspereau / Fort Monckton