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Philippe Pastour de Costebelle

1661–1717 · 17th century

Philippe Pastour de Costebelle was a French officer and the last governor of Plaisance, the French colony on Newfoundland, from 1706. After the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 handed Newfoundland to Britain, he moved the settlers to Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and became its first governor, overseeing the founding of Louisbourg. He died there in 1717.

Philippe Pastour de Costebelle
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