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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 16, 2014
Caption: Monument to the Foreign Protestants from the Principality of Montbéliard
Additional Description: This memorial is dedicated to the memory of the 431 Foreign Protestants from the
Principality of Montbéliard
who landed in Nova Scotia between 1749 and 1752. Many of these Montbéliardians were among the founding settlers of Lunenburg on June 8, 1753.
Until 1793 Montbéliard was an independent principality situated northwest of Switzerland. It was the one francophone Lutheran county on earth. Today Montbéliard is part of France.
With the help of Montbéliardian descendants, the South Shore Genealogical Society and a committee headed by Murry Jodrie and Paul Jodrey, this idea for remembrance has becalm a reality.
July 10, 1988, Pierre Jodry of Audincourt, France (near the city of Montbéliard) unveiled this monument.

This monument listed the surnames of the settlers from the Principality of Montbéliard. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Submitted: October 26, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p290203
File Size: 3.552 Megabytes

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