The gardens of 18th-century Louisbourg

• Autores: Anne O'Neill
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 3, Nº 3, 1983, págs. 176-178
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park is a project of the Government of Canada, begun in 1961 and just now nearing completion. It is a massive undertaking, a reconstruction of a portion of the 18th-century French town as it was during the 1740s when, because of its strategic and economic importance, it was a flashpoint of Anglo-French rivalry in North America. Louisbourg's span of history was short, founded in 1713 and captured first in 1745 and then for the second and final time in 1758, but at its peak it was a centre for French trade, commerce, fishing and military power in the New World. Situated on a barren peninsula dividing a deep, well-protected harbour from the rugged North Atlantic, the town's population by the 1740s is thought to have been around 3000, including a military garrison of about 700. The Louisbourg project consists of much more than a collection of reconstructed buildings. It also includes interpretive exhibits, publications, films, furnished period houses and, most popular of all, costumed animation of the events and routines of 18th-century daily life.