A Boston military officer and later Nova Scotia surveyor and judge, Charles Morris spent the winter of 1746-47 at Grand-Pré, where his New England soldiers were attacked by French and Aboriginal forces. He later produced this large-scale map of Grand-Pré as part of a government plan to settle Protestant farmers among the Acadians (the gridded squares). The plan was never used, but this map survives, giving approximate locations of Acadian communities and the Church of Saint-Charles-des-Mines.

SOURCE: "A Plan of Settlements propos'd to be made at Annapolis, Menis & Shiegnecto." NSARM F80 C16R 1912 (Colonial Office vol. 9, no. 40, 1749).

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