Fort Sainte Anne
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Fort Sainte Anne (abbreviated Fort Ste. Anne) is the name of at least three French forts named after Saint Anne:
- A French fort, Fort Ste. Anne was built in St Anne's Bay on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia). The fort was built by Captain Daniel, was occupied from 1639 to 1641, and is near Simon Denys' Fort (1650-1659) and Fort Dauphin (1713-1745), other French forts built in the area later known as Englishtown.
- Fort Saint Anne is the name of a former fort and settlement on Isle La Motte on Lake Champlain in modern-day northwestern Vermont), established in 1666 by the French Carignan-Salière Regiment.
- Fort Albany, in northern Ontario (On James Bay and the mouth of the Albany River) was named Fort St Anne during the French occupation of the Hudson's Bay Company outpost of Albany Post (or Albany Fort) from 1686-1692. Today is has a population of about 1,400 and it close to the Fort Albany First Nations reserve.
