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Fort Sainte Anne (1639 to 1641) & Simon Denys Fort (1650-1659) (1639 to 1641, 1650-1659) - Two French colonial military forts located at present-day Englishtown, Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Fort Sainte Anne was built by Captain Charles Daniel (1629) after he raided Baleine.

June 26, 1629: Captain Charles Daniel making for Quebec, is driven to shore by a storm and seeks refuge at St. Ann's Bay, Cape Breton. Daniel builds there a fort, Fort Sainte-Anne "with dwelling, a chapel, and a magazine."

The fort was occupied from 1639 to 1641. Two other military forts were eventually built adjacent to the fort: Simon Denys Fort (1650-1659) and Fort Dauphin (1713-1758).

The plaque on this cannon reads: Presented by the Fortress of Louisbourg to the Englishtown Historical Society in July 1996. This gun commemorates Fort Sainte Anne 1629., the first permanent settlement and Jesuit Mission on Cape Breton Island, also Fort Dauphin 1713, secondary strong place on the Island which was captured in 1745 and abandoned in 1758 after the final capitulation of Louisbourg.

An existing Sainte Anne Port Dauphin National Historic Site of Canada roadside cairn a short distance up the road has a plaque which reads: Settled, 1629, by Captain Charles Daniel, and site of an early Jesuit mission. Selected in 1713, as a naval base and one of the principal places in Isle Royale, named Port Dauphin and strongly fortified. Its importance declined with the choice, 1719 of Louisbourg as the capital. Plaque date: 1950