Didn't know that about the date of the use of the name Sherbrooke in Nova Scotia. I had always assumed that it was so called from the days when the United Empire Loyalists went there during the American Revolutionary War. What name did it go by then?

Besides, I think most of the serious privateering was done during the War of 1812, but 1812 wouldn't scan.:)

Stan was a great singer and writer, but like all of his he sometimes made a few mistakes of fact. For example, in The Nancy, The Moy was not on Lake St. Clair but on the Detroit River on what is now the Canadian side. And I have never been able to figure out what incident he refers to in that song. There were MacIntoshes here, but as far as I am aware they were British subjects in good standing and never had any battles with the militia. Amherstberg fell during the War of 1812 but I haven't read any reference in any local history book to the MacIntoshes doing battle with the Americans from their schooner. It is the sort of thing that would likely have been mentioned, and no doubt a plaque erected.

And the Blue Dolphin was at the bottom of the harbour in Sarnia, not Windsor. Last I heard of it, in one of the Detroit papers, some eccentric old geezer had it in dock in Detroit wanting to restore it, and someone unplugged the pumps by mistake and it sank again. That was several years ago and I have heard nothing of it since.

But I never let these pedantic concerns get in the way of a good song.:)