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  2. Fortress of Louisbourg - Wikipedia

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    The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

  3. List of historic places in Cape Breton Regional Municipality

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    Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada Louisbourg NS 45°53′33″N 59°59′10″W  /  45.892382°N 59.98621°W  / 45.892382; -59.98621  ( Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of

  4. Louisbourg - Wikipedia

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    Louisbourg's economy is dominated by the seasonal tourism industry and seafood processing. The depletion of groundfish stocks has negatively affected local fish processing operations in recent decades. In the 1960s, Parks Canada completed a partial reconstruction of the Fortress of Louisbourg.

  5. Siege of Louisbourg (1758) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the French and Indian War in 1758 that ended French colonial dominance in Atlantic Canada and led to the subsequent British campaign to capture Quebec in 1759 and the remainder of New France the following year.

  6. Louisbourg Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    Louisbourg Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. The current tower is the fourth in a series of lighthouses that have been built on the site, the earliest was the first lighthouse in Canada .

  7. List of French forts in North America - Wikipedia

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    Fortress of Louisbourg: 1719: Louisbourg Nova Scotia: Fort Maurepas: 1733: Selkirk Manitoba: Fort Menagoueche: 1751: Saint John New Brunswick: Fort Paskoya: 1741: The Pas (on Cedar Lake) Manitoba: Fort Plaisance: 1662: Placentia Newfoundland and Labrador: Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles: 1670: Montréal Quebec: Port-Royal Habitation: 1605: Annapolis ...

  8. Sydney and Louisburg Railway - Wikipedia

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    Louisbourg Harbour, which had been selected by the French military for its year-round ice-free waters when building Fortress Louisbourg during the early to mid-18th century, again became a valuable port when a railway line was built from the mines at Reserve to Louisbourg in 1877. This line was poorly built and was soon lost to a forest fire.

  9. Siege of Louisbourg (1745) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.

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