Aftermath
The success of the raid on Canso caused great excitement and celebration in Louisbourg, bolstering the morale of the French citizenry and their native allies, while depriving Britain of a strategic base in eastern Nova Scotia. However the task of maintaining more than one hundred prisoners taxed the colony's already strained food supply. Rather than keeping the British at bay, the raid, which was followed by a siege of Annapolis Royal, alarmed the British colonists in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, many of whom believed the raid was a prelude to further attacks on Massachusetts. On October 20, 1744, Massachusetts officially declared war on the Mi'kmaq. In 1745 the province mounted a successful siege of Louisbourg.
John Bradstreet was captured in the French raid on Canso, and while imprisoned at Louisbourg, he developed plans for the capture of fortress, which fell the following year after a siege in 1745.
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