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FORTRESS OF

LOUISBOURG

EXPERIENCE The Maritimes Thanksgiving: 9:30am–5pm daily; check website for other times
⌂ Rte 22 SW of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island # Victoria Day–
of the year ∑ fortressoflouisbourg.ca
Built between 1713 and 1758, the magnificent Fortress of Louisbourg
was France’s bastion of military strength in the New World. Today, it
is the largest military reconstruction in North America.

Inside the fortress, scores of historically
superb. The costumed interpreters offer
costumed guides bring the excitement of
an 18th-century French trading town to life.
information about the fortress, its history,
and the lives of people they portray. Although
The streets and buildings are peopled with Military Engineer, the attention to detail is
merchants, soldiers, fishmongers, and washer- the scale of the reconstruction is immense,
women, all going about the daily business of much of the fortress remains in ruins, and
the 1700s. From the lowliest fisherman’s visitors can walk through the damaged
cottage to the elegant home of the Chief sections out towards the Atlantic coast.

A cluster of reconstructed
houses within the
Fortress of Louisbourg
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