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Joseph-Nicolas Gautier dit Bellair (1689-1752) was one of the wealthiest Acadian as a merchant trader and a leader of the Acadian militia. He participated in war efforts against the British during King George's War and Father Le Loutre’s War. In the latter war, Gautier was particularly instrumental in the Acadian Exodus.

See also

• Military history of Nova Scotia

References

• Thomas Garden Barns "Twelve Apostles" or a Dozen Traitors? Acadian Collaborators during King George’s War 1744-1748 in F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright eds. Law, Politics and Security Measures, 1608-1837. Canadian State Trials. 1996. pp. 98–113
• John Faragher (2005). A Great and Noble Scheme
• Bernard Pothier. The Siege of Annapolis Royal, 1744. The Nova Scotia Historical Review. 59-71
• Bernard Pothier. Joseph-Nicolas Gautier. Canadian Dictionary of Biography.
• Earle Lockerby. Pre-Deportation Letters from Ile Saint Jean. Les Cahieers. La Societe hitorique acadienne. Vol. 42, No2. June 2011. pp. 56–105
• Robert Sauvageau, Acadie: La guerre de cents ans des Francais d’Amerique aux Maritimes et en Louisiane, 1670-1769 (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1987)

Footnotes

External links

• Pothier, Bernard (1974). "Gautier, Bellair, Joseph-Nicolas". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

• 1689 births
• 1752 deaths
• 18th-century Canadian merchants
• Military history of Acadia
• Military history of Nova Scotia
• Military history of New England
• Military history of the Thirteen Colonies
• Acadian people
• Acadian history
• People of Father Le Loutre's War