Photographs of
Fort Edward Blockhouse
1750

Links to Relevant Websites

Fort Edward Blockhouse by the West Hants Historical Society
    http://www.glinx.com/~whhs/ftedward.html

Salvage Excavation and Construction Monitoring at Fort Edward National Historic Site
    http://www.crmgroup.ns.ca/fort_ed.html

Fort Edward National Historic Site by the Department of Tourism and Culture
    http://museum.gov.ns.ca/musdir/fortedwardnationalhistoricsite.htm

Fort Edward as it looked in the late 1800s by the West Hants Historical Society
    http://www.glinx.com/~whhs/ftedward_photos.html

The Life and Death of William Desmond Taylor
...The original Fort Edward was built in 1750. By World War One it was gone,
just an historical marker. But it was a local landmark and still is. When a
temporary wooden barracks was built the locals still referred to it as Fort
Edward although a barracks is not a defensive structure. The local paper,
a weekly paper called the Hants Journal, usually referred to the wartime
facility as "Fort Edward". But midway through World War One, a B.E.F.
training depot was established, which was a large tent encampment, and local
buildings like the library and YMCA were requisitioned for base use, like
stores, officers' quarters, etc. With both Canadian military activities and
British military activities going on in the same small town, even the press
started using hybrid terminology, referring to "Camp Fort Edward" in the
Hants Journal, – and this means the B.E.F. tent camp at Fort Edward...
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~ialong/Taylor40.txt

A Continuing Exploration of the Life and Death of William Desmond Taylor
Taylorology, Issue 12, December 1993
...The facts of William Desmond Taylor's military service are as follows:
He enlisted as a private in the British Army and arrived at Camp Fort Edward,
Nova Scotia, Canada, in August 1918...
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~ialong/Taylor12.txt