Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town

by Christopher Moore

Book Overview

Each year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771597126
• ISBN13: 9780771597121
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MacMillan of Canada
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating true stories.

Amazingly detailed true stories of real people and their personal lives. Christopher Moore has obviously spent countless hours mining information from the surviving eighteenth-century documents of the colony of Ile Royale in order to reconstruct living history in a fascinating, readable format.

Five people

This is the story of five inhabitants of the colonial city of Louisbourg who lived and died. They had their dreams. They had their hopes. Some ended in tragic failure while others enjoyed great success. An interesting book to read for those interested in the period or in Louisbourg in peticular. Nicely written.