When James Patterson Foster was born on 7 July 1815, in Port Lorne, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Isaac Foster, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Patterson, was 23. He married Mary Jane Triphena Graves on 10 March 1853, in Paradise, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Clarence, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years and Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. He died in 1912, at the age of 97, and was buried in Fundy View Cemetery, Port Lorne, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
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In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
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