PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS FRONTING RUE D'ESTRÉES AND RUE ST. LOUIS BY ERIC KRAUSE (2004): STREETS

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1713	The Town of Louisbourg was founded
1713-1715	The Town of Louisbourg functioned as the principal establishment on the Island
1713-1717	Initial construction happened nearest the harbour first. Most of the town within the interior remained undeveloped.
1713-1720	Many informal, meandering streets served existing buildings and external areas such as Cap Noir
1715-1717	Port Dauphin functioned as the principal establishment on the Island
1717-1758	The Town of Louisbourg functioned as the principal establishment on the Island
1717	*The streets and properties were first surveyed and marked with piquet or large posts, 7-8 pieds* long, pointed at one end. However, that winter, unknown persons removed them.**
1718	The streets and properties were again surveyed and marked with piquet or large posts, 7-8 pieds long, pointed at one end. A ditch 1/2 pieds deep was cut from one piquet to the other in case the posts were again removed.
1720	A regulation required that property owners: *(i) Construct buildings - within the year of a registered property concession - to the street property line - with at least a 3 pieds* separation between wooden buildings (ii) Develop the street in front of their conceded property to the centre of the street (iii) Build 1/2 [the other 1/2 by the owner opposite] of the dry-stone drain - for channelling water - that was to extend down the centre of the street (iv) Place roof drains so that they emptied upon the street or upon the rear of the property and not upon a neighbour's property (v) Not place struts (commonly of piquet) in the streets to support [piquet] buildings**
1721	A regulation directed that property owners were to enclose their concessions and maintain the 6-8 pouce thick boundary posts, which were to be 3 pieds below the ground and 4 pieds above, with the squared-off posts - each face to be 5 pouces - marked with the number of their land. Beneath might be found a piece of coal, clinker, or brick.
1725	The crown had paid for the first pavé along the houses on the principal streets. By inference, after that first undertaking, owners were responsible.
1727	The fortification contractor received a supplementary contract describing his allowable charges for the building and street pavé (cobblestone) he had undertaken but not mentioned in his February contract of 1725 (i.e. until 1727, contacts had not included such work)
1737	*The fortification contractor received a contract describing his allowable charges for building and street pavé* (cobblestone)**
1737	A previous regulation that owners were to clean the streets in front of their properties was affirmed
1745	Siege
1745	The town was considered to be in a ruinous state following the siege
1745	The windows of every house in the town were shattered
1745-1746 (Winter)	Many houses and fences were pulled down for fuel
1746	A regulation that the inhabitants of each house clean their streets, that the dirt be carried out of the city, and that canals be cut around each house to drain off melted snow and water
c. 1746-1747	Several of the principal streets, which were dirty and in poor condition, were cleaned and mended
1749	It was reported that, generally, piquet boundary markers had been removed [presumably during the 1745-1748 English occupational period], and it was ordered that properties be re-surveyed and markers replaced
1752	A regulation directed that property owners remove ice from in front of their houses and dispose of it into the middle of the streets, and that, generally, they keep clean the street in front of their houses
1753	Several streets were declared as populated with public wells
1753	*The fortification contractor received a contract describing his allowable charges for building and street pavé* (cobblestone)**
1758	Breastworks were raised in several streets
1758	Siege
1758-1759	The town was considered to be in a ruinous state because - according to disputed evidence - it was the English method to destroy houses during the course of a siege
1760	Orders directed that houses were not to be demolished unless required during the destruction of fortification features
1762	A fire broke out nearly at the centre of the town, with twelve wooden houses burned, and four or five wooden ones pulled down
1784	The town was described as in a ruinous state
1849	The streets were declared to be no longer visible
1911	Rows of stone, almost hidden, show the location of the former streets
1931	Plans called for the marking of all streets and the opening of certain streets , thus allowing one to drive from the Dauphin Gate to Rochefort Point

1718	A stream springs out of Rue St. Louis just south of the corner of Blocks 18 and 19 to feed a large garden in Block 15. Blocks 18 and 19 appear undeveloped.
1720	Chemin de la Plaine et de la Pte. Blanche crosses future Rue St. Louis somewhere near the vicinity of future blocks 36 and 45.
c. 1757-1758	A possible zig-zig military traverse work was placed to the south and south-west of block 36 that terminated in Rue St. Louis opposite Lot E

1713-1720	Many informal meandering roads crossed the planned streets and town blocks in every direction, serving existing buildings and external areas such as Cap Noir
1717	An un-named Rue d'Estrées was first illustrated this year, but it does not extend this far south
1718	A named Rue d'Estrées was first illustrated this year, but it does not extend this far south
1720	Chemin du Cap Noir crosses future Rue d'Estrées somewhere near future blocks 31 and 32.
1728	*Somewhere, there was pavé* work associated with the construction of the Block Thirteen Hospital**
1767	A drain which originated from two wells in the Rue de Scatary, continued down Rue de l'Hôpital, entered a small covered building placed in Rue de France, exited it, turned east, ran along Rue de France and entered another small covered building in the street, exited it, turned north, and continued down Rue d'Estrées to the Grand Étang.
1767	The street is grass covered from Rue de Scatary southward