Advertisement from the London Gazette:
Whitehall, March 7, 1748-9
A proposal having been presented unto his Majesty, for establishing a civil government in the province of Nova Scotia, in North America, as also for the better peopling and settling the said Province, and extending and improving the fishery thereof, by granting lands within the same, and giving other encouragement to such of the officers and private men lately dismissed his Majesty's land and sea services, as shall be willing to settle in the said province; and his Majesty having signified his Royal approbation of the purport of the said proposals, the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, by his Majesty's command, give notice, that proper encouragement: will be given to such of the officers and private men lately dismissed his Majesty's land and sea service, and to artificers necessary in building or husbandry, as are willing to accept of grants of land, and to settle with or without families in the province of Nova Scotia. Britain also encouraged Protestant colonization in Nova Scotia to minimize the overwhelming Catholic Acadian majority. Under Lieutenant Governor Edward Cornwallis, some 3000 colonists, mostly British and German Protestants, were settled at Halifax and Lunenburg along the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, away from the concentration of Acadians on the western shores of the peninsula.
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