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LOUISBOURG 2013
The 300th
Anniversary Of The Founding Of Louisbourg | Le 300e Anniversaire De La Fondation
De Louisbourg
LOUISBOURG 1713
FIRST SUPPLIES
"The supplies were four fishing boats and their gear, four herring nets
and a seine ; six cannons from St. John's, balls, masons' tools and picks,
two hundredweight of resin, a forge and bellows, and the King's mules and
the horses from St. John's ; from Quebec three hundredweight of flour, ten
barrels of peas, one barrel of Indian corn, forty pairs of snowshoes, 150
pairs of mocassins, one deerskin, 1000 planks, thirty shovels, eighty little
axes, 300 pounds of tobacco, three barrels of tar, and six cows. Costebelle
added to this a few pounds of steel and sixty axes, all he could obtain in
Placentia. An ample list had been made out for supplies from France, but
were apparently only partly shipped. The Minister ordered specially 100 axes
from a maker, one Bidard, near Bayonne, as he had the reputation of being a
specially good workman."
[J.S. McLennan, Louisbourg from its foundation to its fall, 1713-1758
(Sydney: Fortress Press, 1969), p. 12]
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