Fortress of Louisbourg
The Fredric gate
We had to leave the dogs behind to day unfortunately, so no cute dog pics.
Quick history
Back in the 1700 something the french and the English had a few big fights about who should control the world. The English wanted to control northern North America (now Canada) but the pesky French had a big a ol' fort on northern end of Nova Scotia that controlled access to the St. Lawrence. Also it turns out that the fort wasn't well designed so the English took it by landing someone else and marching up to it from where the canons weren't pointing.
But at that point they got tried of fighting so the french got the fort back.
But it was only a short break and they were back to fighting. The English got tired of fighting the french and just wanted take everything. So they took the Fort again by landing somewhere else again.
After this time thought they were kinda bitter about having to take the fort twice and raised it to the ground and took all the stone to Boston (BTW, tell the people there you are from Boston, see how that works out for you).
In the mid 20th century there was a movement to rebuild part of the fort for historical preservation purposes. 1/4 quarter of the fort was rebuilt using (as much as possible) using period methods and materials. It is quite the site to see.
Canon
The bastion by the entrance was reconstructed with canons.
Canon pointing out of the bastion
Bastion with gate in backgroun
Emily tried to open it and let the english liberators in
Emily is being inaproprate with a canon.
Another view of the gate.
The place a a mother fricken moat and a draw bridge.
We found the canon reserve apperently
The Bakery
So that guy in the photo above is the bakers apprentice.
He sold bread that the soldiers would get as rations (80% whole wheat, 20% rye), the regular population bread (50/50 whole and white), and officers bread (mostly white).
We tried the 50/50 and it was pretty good.
The interesting part is that they bake the bread in the period fashion in rebuilt ovens over the original locations.
Inside of bakery and oven
Over night the a fire would be left in the oven and burn it self out by morning.
The ashes would then be scraped into a tunnel under the oven (original to the fort, no one knows where it goes) and the oven would be swabbed out with water.
The bread would then be placed inside and left there till cooked. The oven would easly be 350+ F durring that time.
These were the main walls of the reconsucted section of the fort.
Inside
There was a section that was redone as it would have been when the Governor lived there.
This is a Hurdy-gurdy
This little instrument is a Hurdy gurdy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy).
Mechanical roasting spit
This little contraption would turn a spit over the fire by dropping a weight.
The Governors Bed
I know things were different back then, but you would think that he would have a bigger bed.
No idea what this was
Church
Actors
Most of the workers at the park are dressed in period clothes and act like it too. They speak french and English and don't know where anything post 1750 is.
Animals
The fort had some sheep, they did shear them and use it to make some period clothes.
Barn swallows
There were tons of these little builders.
Barn swallows nests
At point 5 birds were trying to get into one nest.
So 10/10 very recommended.
Other cool stuff
There was a light house and cool coast across the bay.
