Montbeliard-Photos and Maps
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Montbeliard-Photos and Maps
Montbéliard is a small city in eastern France, in the department of Doubs, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of Paris. Until 1793, Montbéliard was the independent homeland of about 420 French-speaking Protestants brought to Nova Scotia by a Dutch shipping agent named John Dick. Dick was appointed by the British Board of Trade to recruit "Foreign Protestants" along the Rhine to settle in Nova Scotia, which at that time was a remote, and with the Treaty of Ultrect in 1713, a fairly recently acquired British colony.
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