The Acadian Exiles - A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline - Doughty, Arthur G.
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Arthur G. Doughty was a Canadian civil servant and Keeper of the Public Records. The Acadian Exiles - A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline is volume 9 of Chronicles of Canada. Acadia was the name given to the northeastern territory of North America. Acadia included Quebec and the Maritime Provinces and parts of New England. The actual specification by the French government for the territory refers to lands bordering the Atlantic coast, roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels. Later, the territory was divided into the British colonies, which were to become Canadian provinces and American…mehr

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Arthur G. Doughty was a Canadian civil servant and Keeper of the Public Records. The Acadian Exiles - A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline is volume 9 of Chronicles of Canada. Acadia was the name given to the northeastern territory of North America. Acadia included Quebec and the Maritime Provinces and parts of New England. The actual specification by the French government for the territory refers to lands bordering the Atlantic coast, roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels. Later, the territory was divided into the British colonies, which were to become Canadian provinces and American states. This set is an excellent reference for anyone interested in Canadian history.
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Sir Arthur George Doughty KBE CMG FRSC (22 March 1860 - 1 December 1936) was a Canadian civil servant and Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, the son of William Doughty, Doughty was educated at the public schools in Maidenhead, at Lord Eldon School in London, and at New Inn Hall, Oxford. He emigrated to Canada in 1886 settling in Montreal. He was appointed to a position in the revenue department of the government of Quebec and in 1897 became private secretary to the Minister of Public Works. In 1900, he was named joint librarian of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and in May 1904 was appointed as the second Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Records. He served in this post until 1935.[1][2] Under his leadership, the Public Archives of Canada undertook to locate and list important archival material in different areas of Canada. He wrote or edited a number of books, on topics such as the Siege of Quebec and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759; Canadian constitutional documents, and the 23-volume work Canada and its Provinces, which Doughty edited with Adam Shortt.[3] He wrote the article on Samuel de Champlain for the Catholic Encyclopedia.[4] In 1900, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[1] In 1927, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal. In 1905 he was created a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.[1] He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5] He encouraged the creation of archives by the provincial governments and served on the Board of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia when it was reconstituted in 1929.