Canada Day at Fortress Louisbourg

[Cyberra]

Admission to the fortress is free on Canada Day, so we make a point of going whenever possible. Last year mom's broken leg prevented us from going and the year before that we never made it, so it's been 3-4 years since I was last out there. And the weather was beautiful for a change.

Founded just about 300 years ago, Fortress Louisbourg was a hotly-contested piece of real estate between the French and the British; there's most of a wrecked French fleet residing at the bottom of the harbor. Less than a quarter of the place has been rebuilt; it's one of the largest historical reconstructions in North America

The Fortress from the bus that runs people from the visitor center over to the gates


Main gates


Mom got singled out by one of the guards XD


This is the main sea gate. The plaque up top is all in French, and I couldn't read a word of it

[Cyberra]

A monk sitting next to the church


Guard up at the King's Bastion


King's Bastion from the front... Sun was in front of me and behind the building, so the pic's not as clear as I would like

[Cyberra]

The chapel of the King's Bastion. I'm not entirely sure who the picture is of... St Louis-the-something. One of my cousins was married in this chapel, and my uncle, a priest, set up the altar to make sure everything was just right


The real courtyard of the Basion, from up on the battlements. There are two massive cannons behind me


View of the reconstructed town from up on the battlements.


Looking across the harbor toward the lighthouse. Right next tho the modern lighthouse is the foundation and ruins of the first lighthouse ever built in Canada. I was over there to see it a couple of years ago. The island just peeking in at the far right, or the one behind it (not visible) had a cannon battery on it to keep the British at bay

[Cyberra]

And this is me, standing up on the battlements. Pic taken by my mom

[Old Marine]

Very Interesting, Thank You for sharing