Fort Beauséjour
Fort Beauséjour, renamed Fort Cumberland in 1755, is a large, five-bastioned fort on the Isthmus of Chignecto in eastern Canada, a neck of land connecting the present-day province of New Brunswick with that of Nova Scotia.Photo: Verne Equinox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: French-built fort in Acadia now a park
- Also known as: “Fort Beausejour”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point de Bute and Amherst.
Point de Bute
Hamlet
Photo: Verne Equinox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Point de Bute or Pointe de Bute is an area in ward five of the town of Tantramar in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. The former local service district of Pointe de Bute took its name from the community but used a different spelling. Point de Bute is situated 6 km northeast of Fort Beauséjour.
Amherst
Photo: Azure, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amherst is a city of 9,400 people in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Amherst is the county seat and largest population centre in the Cumberland region.
Fort Beauséjour
- Categories: military museum, fort, castle, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.8635° or 45° 51′ 49″ northLongitude
-64.29208° or 64° 17′ 32″ westOpen location code
87QQVP75+95OpenStreetMap ID
way 223462311OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q844533
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Fort Beauséjour” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “博塞茹爾堡”
- Chinese: “布瑟舒爾堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Beauséjour”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن بوسيجور”
- French: “Fort Beausejour”
- French: “fort Beauséjour”
- French: “Fort Beauséjour”
- German: “Fort Beauséjour”
- German: “Fort Cumberland”
- Italian: “Fort Beauséjour”
- Japanese: “ボーセジュール砦”
- Korean: “보세주르 요새”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Beausejour”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Beauséjour”
- Swedish: “Fort Beauséjour”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fort Beauséjour-Fort Cumberland National Historic Site of Canada/ Lieu historique national du Canada du Fort-Beauséjour – Fort-Cumberland and Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland National Historic Site.
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