there's a narrow channel between it and the rest of nova scotia or acadia. so the french did retain this island and also this island off the coast of acadia. besides that, this region was also part of french canada. the point is this. 1713, going back to an earlier french/british war, after all, this was an era of french/british conflict and the seven years war that we talk about today is the culmination of this really in the colonial period. in 1713, when the british gained governance of nova scotia or acadia, the colonists were french. so what did the british say to the french then? they basically wanted them to onists out if they could effect that. and then they would bring in -- british colonists, prot stantsd remove the french catholics if they could to better control the territory which, after all, was close to the gulf which borders the gulf of s saint lawrence and the entry to the saint lawrence river. the point is though, the british military in acadia was weak. they only had a few hundred men. and even though they would have liked to have removed t

we also talk about acadia or nova scotia, which is here, an important region. and next we'll begin with the ohio country because this is where the conflict began in 1784. pardon me, 1754. 1754, all right? okay. let's continue. well, historians use maps, you know, to get a sense of not only the relationship between geographic regions, and that's very important, but historical maps, such as this one, which date to 1756 and was drawn in paris gives us -- this type of map gives us a sense of how europeans perceived the north american landscape. it tells us what they knew most about, what they knew less about. for example, it also shows you little red dots where there are settlements or towns in areas of the british colonies. and here, of course, is the st. lawrence, and montreal would be here about, and quebec toward here. so we get a sense of how people living at that time, especially policy maker, government policy makers, government leaders perceived the geographic landscape. one of the most interesting features of this map, which is in the state library of virg

acadia. it is alphabetical. it ended at hamburg. in world war room in one, people did not like it.they thought it was -- world war i, people did not like it. they thought it was too german. >> there are two in bayview hunters. . there is one that treasure island then there is one out there. -- there are two in bayview hunters poitn. -- point. >> they said, we will rename all of the streets. they decided to name them after spanish explorers, which was controversial. they compromised. some of the streets are named after an indian place in yosemite. >> they had the number of streets already put in, nice and simple. they wanted to name the other ones, and they wanted to name all of the east-west one's with explorers -- ones with explorers. there was a big complaint about the spanish names. a few of them they kept. these are the park side cottages. as early as 1908, they had a textbook and they said, you can build as cottage. we will give you the plans. take it away. we think about it later, but they were doing it early. >> this is a placard from one of those cooky cutter homes. we talk

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he has been to the grand canyon and vacationed with the family at our acadia national park.ves the outdoors. a lot of his legacy in conservation comes from his understanding of the people of this country. much of the introduction he got to the united states were with his mother and grandmother as a young man going across the country. he has been leading a conservation effort we are truly proud of. we're proud of the public lands act signed into law in 2009 at the beginning of his administration. we're proud of the fact is launched the great outdoors program and is listed communities -- in listing communities on the agenda at you have heard about today. this president knows what the people of america are telling him. it is about listening to all of you. a champion of rural america, a champion of conservation, a person who understands the importance of tourism and job creation for america, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack obama. [applause] ["hail to the chief"] ♪ >> thank you, everybody. thank you so much. [applause] everybody, have a seat. welc