Fortress

August 10th, 2007
Another bus tour, to the Fortress of Louisbourg

We were warned ahead of time that this would be a long long day of walking. I chose to stay home and recuperate, and let Maggie be the photographer of the day.

The Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site was once a busy fortified seaport – it was the administrative capital of French holdings in Atlantic Canada – a fishing base for cod – a center for trade with over 100 trading vessels a year sailing in and out of the harbour – an Anglo-French battleground in both 1745 and 1758. Each summer, the Fortress springs to life as dozens of costumed animators become the town’s residents of the summer of 1744. Men, women and childred enact the range of society fro mthe leisurely activites of the rich to the hard physical albour of the poor – engineers, musicians, soldiers, merchants, street vendors, bakers, servants and fishermen…dancing, cooking, gardening, musketry and more. Therea re over 25 buildings open to the public.

http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/parks/histry_e.html

And this was the day we had wished for yesterday, so Maggie was able to get a couple shots representative of what we might have seen.