Foreign Protestants

As Foreign Protestants (foreign Protestants ) is called in Canada, a group of immigrants who emigrated 1749-1753 to Nova Scotia. This mostly German immigrants settled mainly in the south of the peninsula; this area was strongly influenced by the immigrants, which is expressed among other things in German names.

The crossing took place on the following twelve ships:

• Aldernay / Nancy (1750 )
• Ann (1750 )
• Gale (1751 )
• Speedwell (1751 )
• Pearl (1751 )
• Murdoch (1751 )
• Speedwell (1752 )
• Betty (1752 )
• Sally (1752 )
• Pearl ( 1752)
• Gale (1752 )

Background

To compensate for the ruling in Nova Scotia imbalance between Protestants and there mainly based Acadian French Catholics, recruited to the British Crown in Europe by Protestant emigrants. However, British Protestants were difficult to persuade them to emigrate in this rather inhospitable area. Thus, the British colonial rulers along the Rhine campaigned successfully by attractive offers as a free crossing and also free land and religious freedom mostly Palatinate and Württemberg Lutherans including Protestants from Montbeliard, but also French-speaking Swiss for the company. These promotional trips were led by John Dick.