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Hello and welcome to episode 365 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past

have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

Our summer 2023 road trip continues.

It's time to return to our boats and sail to our last destination, Prince Edward Island.

Naturally, this is going to take us a long time because while the driving distance between the La Point Crab's House and Museum

and Pascagula Mississippi is approximately 2,100 miles, our road trip is by boat this year,

which means we need to sail from the Gulf of Mexico around the Florida Peninsula,

then north along the entirety of the United States East Coast, and then around Nova Scotia

before we can make port in our final destination.

Thankfully, we're only sailing in our minds, so we can make great time.

In 2020, we met with Ann Marie Lane-Jona, the historian with the Parks Canada Agency.

At the time, Ann Marie told us how 2020 marked the 300th anniversary

or the tri-centennial of French presence on Prince Edward Island,

which during its French colonial period was known as Il Saint-Chain.

Like the other Canadian maritime provinces, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia,

were highly contested regions during the 17th and 18th centuries.

In fact, the Canadian Maritimes were among the most contested regions in 17th and 18th century North America,

and this is given the way that the French and the British really fought hard for control of these areas.

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