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Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
Report 98-13
ACTUAL AND PROPOSED, 1713-1758
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Earth-fast piquet technology may have influenced the initial, and undoubtedly, later Acadian vernacular building design at Port Toulouse. Associated features would have been of the standard type: gardens, latrines animal outbuildings and perimeter and garden fences. As to number and location of homes, there were many, perhaps 50, more or less, given that at least one census identified 59 heads of families, spread around the harbour. In particular, the La Roque census of 1752 inferred many more residences than actually mentioned directly.
Three larger concentrations of buildings existed: at Pointe à Coste, at Grand St. Pierre (to the east of the King's establishment), and at Petit St. Pierre. Like elsewhere, they were generally harbour facing and, without exception, proportionally not as long as the King's barracks. Indeed, in most facades, a door and two windows may have been the norm. Common too may have been buildings standing only a storey tall.
PARTICULAR OBSERVATIONS
(01) The Gabriel Rogé [Roger] house was first mentioned in 1717.
(02) A Beaucours land concession, of 3 arpents on each side of a river, stood at the bottom of the harbour.
(03) A private residence, rented by the surgeon, was first mentioned in 1718 (In 1738, he was again mentioned as living in, apparently, a house).
(04) A one-storey structure to the east of the proposed fort was first observed in 1733. Of an unrecognizable type, it was shown in plan and elevation, with an outbuilding and fenced-off garden. The apparent residence, illustrated only partly, had at least one hipped roof, and two harbour-facing windows to one side of a supposed centrally located entrance way and chimney stack. The small outbuilding had a door in its gable end, with a window in a side wall. There was no chimney stack, and its roof was gabled.
(05) Approximately 18 building complexes (not including the King's establishment) were first observed in elevation in 1734.
(06) Huts being built in the woods were first mentioned in 1744.
(07) All the houses, including that of Nicolas Trejeat (a Nicolas Pregent first appeared in 1740(290)), were burnt in 1745.
(08) The Jean Baptiste Martel Port Toulouse dwelling (Jean Clement - first appeared in the 1726 Port Toulouse census(291) - sold them the dwelling) was first mentioned in 1752.
(09) The Charles Pinet Port Toulouse dwelling and possibly a small garden (on the property of Samson) was first mentioned in 1752.
(10) The Louis Dantin Port Toulouse house (on the property of Marc La Soude) was first mentioned in 1752.
(11) The Honoré Boucher Port Toulouse house (on the property of their mother's homestead) was first mentioned in 1752.
(12) The Jean Petitpas Port Toulouse dwelling (Françoise Monthoty's mother owned the dwelling) was first mentioned in 1752.
(13) The Joseph Fougère Port Toulouse Dwelling (Claude Dugas sold them the dwelling) was first mentioned in 1752.
(14) The Nicolas Préjean Port Toulouse dwelling, garden, and pasture (Jean Robert Henry - first appeared in the 1720 Port Toulouse census(292) - sold them the dwelling) was first mentioned in 1752.
(15) Two (possibly three) Jean Marchand Port Toulouse dwellings (of which one was granted to them by commander De La Vallière and the other sold to them by the widow Boudreau) was first mentioned in 1752.
(16) The André Temple Port Toulouse house, garden and meadow (possibly built after 1749) was first mentioned in 1752.
(17) The Charles Poirier Port Toulouse house (built by him, circa 1750, on the homestead of Langlois) was first mentioned in 1752.
(18) The Joseph Le Blanc Port Toulouse dwelling (Joseph Dugas - first appeared in the 1717 Port Toulouse census(293) - owns the dwelling) was first mentioned in 1752.
(19) The Honoré Préjean La Briquerie building (Charles Béoudrot - a Charles Boudrot first appeared in the 1717 Port Toulouse census(294) - sold them the land) was first mentioned in 1752.
(20) The Coste (to the west) and Maigre (to the east) habitations flanked the former redoubt in 1757. Barns and stables stood on the Maigre property.
(21) A house, perhaps belonging to Temple, an inhabitant, stood near the former redoubt in 1757.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
In 1714, at each end of the portage roadway was an Indian village of 12 to 15 huts each. One stood to the west of the portage facing the Bras d'Or Lakes; the other, opposite the old Denis fort, but to the east of the roadway, faced the harbour.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
During circa 1715, the wood for a church was cut and by 1717, a chapel was operational. Perhaps forming the western portion of a larger complex that included a residence, the one-storey church, which on at least one occasion received repairs, had a raised cross on its western gable wall. Three windows appeared in its harbour facing facade.
A cemetery, a short strolling distance east of the church, was first observed in 1734. Enclosed by a wall, it was directionally aligned to extend away from the harbour. A large cross, facing the waterside, no doubt indicated its entrance. In 1745, a burial ground with wooden crosses (but perhaps not this one since only Mi'Kmaq corpses were described) was partly, or wholly, destroyed.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
It perhaps formed the eastern portion of a larger complex that included a church, a storey tall residence, and a gate or other lower edifice, with an opening in it, which closed off the area between the two structures. On the harbour side, the residence, topped by a stubby steeple, displayed a central doorway and a window to each side of it. In behind the building, stood a fence-off area, close by to which lay another building, perhaps associated with the complex.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Between 1715 and 1758, the King's establishment at this place underwent three building phases: Circa 1715-1734/5 (piquet and 1/2 timber), 1734/5-1745 (masonry), and 1749/1750-1758 (piquet). The establishment generally remained at the same location, west of Grand St. Pierre, directly opposite the new port. Thus while the site of the first and second phases were approximately the same, that of the third lay just somewhat to the east of the siege-fired masonry complex.
Both piquet, and two, or more, 1/2 timber buildings, existed simultaneously at this site. Perhaps too, nearby, completely fenced, off was a 100 pieds square garden.
The dimensions and number of buildings of the first phase complexes are problematic. For example, all plans suggest three parallel buildings, of an equal-size, whose gable ends face the harbour, with at least one building in behind, aligned perpendicular to those in front. However, the number of illustrated structures ranged from 4 to 8, and the size of those in front varied from short to long (in one case an unreasonable circa 120 pieds), or else, proportionally to the one standing perpendicular in behind, were either shorter or longer.
In addition, the only apparent plan of this first establishment is even more enigmatic. The plan is undated (but its author F.N. D'Asseleur, was active as early as this period (1717) and he uses terms like "King's storehouse" and, in particular, ""store-keeper", which, generally, disappeared from the early lexicon of Port Toulouse); It is without a scale (but something was made of the fact that the scale was common to the plans of the two [unspecified] forts); It focuses on buildings (yet it does not directly illustrate wall type, whether it be piquet or 1/2 timber); there are only two parallel waterfront facing structures (though the one to the east may (or was to) have been removed or was not being shown); all three existing structures are of an equal size (when, often, the rear one was illustrated as being either larger or smaller); and its details. such as some window, door, and fireplace locations, are suspect (even though these buildings are stated as existing structures).
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The storehouse was, apparently, of an earth-fast piquet construction, with a bark roof, and an estimated structural lifespan of only 12 to 15 years. Flimsy, of only simple piquets without any timberwork, it was also very susceptible to rot. Finally, it was perhaps finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering.
D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the "King's storehouse" (sited south) and chapel (sited north), separated by a partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, shared the same structure. Servicing the storehouse were two window openings in its west wall and one in its east. In its south gable wall was, probably, an exterior doorway.
D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the storehouse keeper (immediately west of the chaplain) and chaplain (far east), separated by a partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, shared the eastern portion of a larger complex that also included, to the west, separated from it also by a thin partition wall, a combined lodging for the commander and subaltern officers. Servicing the storekeeper were two exterior doorways and two windows, one of each in both its south and north walls. Providing heat was one of the fireplaces of a back-to-back structure set in the thin partition wall.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
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D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the chaplain (far east) and storehouse keeper (immediately to the west), separated by a partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, shared the eastern portion of a larger complex that also included, to the west, separated from it also by a thin partition wall, a combined lodging for the commander and subaltern officers. Servicing the chaplain were two windows, one each in its south and north walls. Providing heat was one of the back-to-back fireplaces set in the dividing partition. If one of the windows were not a doorway, then in this same partition wall may have been an interior doorway (not shown), to provide the chaplain with access to one of two exterior doorways of the storekeeper's lodging.
D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the chapel (north) and storehouse (south), separated by a partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, shared the same structure. Servicing the chapel were two window openings in both its west and east walls. In its north gable wall was an exterior doorway.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The forge was of an earth-fast piquet construction, with a bark roof, and an estimated structural lifespan of only 12 to 15 years. Flimsy, of only simple piquets without any timberwork, it was also very susceptible to rot. It was perhaps finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The bakery was of an earth-fast piquet construction, with a bark roof, and an estimated structural lifespan of only 12 to 15 years. Flimsy, of only simple piquets without any timberwork, it was also very susceptible to rot. It was perhaps finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The [first] officer's lodging was of an earth-fast piquet construction, with a bark roof, and an estimated structural lifespan of only 12 to 15 years. Flimsy, of only simple piquets without any timberwork, it was also very susceptible to rot. It was perhaps finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering.
If the d'asseleur plan is accurate, then a new officer's lodging was established in the same building next to the officer's lodging. What or who then occupied this structure after the change-over is unknown.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The barracks, summarily dismissed as a hut, was of an earth-fast piquet construction, with a bark roof, and an estimated structural lifespan of only 12 to 15 years. Flimsy, of only simple piquets without any timberwork, it was also very susceptible to rot (a condition no doubt accelerated by the lack of a drainage ditch to divert water-runoff from the mountain). Posts were used in its floor construction, and possibly for partitions as well. It also had at least one back-to-back fireplace. Finally, its exterior walls were perhaps finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering.
At one point, directed towards the repair of the barracks, guard house and prison were piquets, sod roofing slabs, moss and human labour. Which particular structure got what was not stated.
D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the barracks, separated by three partitions thinner than the building's exterior walls, consisted of four sections, inexplicably, not one with a clearly indicated exterior doorway. On the other hand, each was serviced by windows: Two windows (of which some if not all must have been doorways, given that they opened upon the parade ground) were placed in the east wall of every room, two in the west wall of the two central rooms, and one in the west wall of each of the north and south sections. Providing heat to all rooms were back-to-back fireplaces, set into the most southern and northern partition walls.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The fort was not large, mounting only six 6 livres iron cannons (with 200 canon-balls). Its precise location is unknown and plans which might have indicated its firing range do not illustrate this information.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
In early fall, two engineers arrived, to determine the location for a fortification scheme Possibly, they went even as far as to lay out a fortification trace.
Included were suggestion to remove the stumps from the mountain top. Then where the curtains of the proposed redoubt joined the flanks (at both the new and former Ports), here either the stumps were also to be removed, or at least the trees cut down. This would have allowed for an examination of the fortification trace, while preparing the way for the digging of an initial 4 toise wide ditch.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Whereas the earlier officer's structure was of an earth-fast piquet construction, this commander's lodging was not. Rather, with its excavated foundations, excavated basement, stone underpinnings and chimneys, 1/2 timber construction was the likely technique here. Perhaps too, it was finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering. At one point, early in its life, it received some unspecified repairs. Finally, the residence may have been smaller than desired, given later directions that this lodging was not to be enlarged.
D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the commander (west) and subaltern officers (immediately east), separated by a partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, shared the western portion of a larger complex that also included, to the east, likewise separated by a thin partition wall, a combined lodging for the storehouse keeper and chaplain. Servicing the lodging were three windows and an exterior doorway in its south wall and another four windows in its north wall. With no illustrated heat source of his own - if this was not an omission - then the commander must have had access to one of the subaltern's back-to-back fireplaces through an interior doorway (not shown) in the dividing interior partition. Lending strength to this argument is the fact that the subaltern's lodging, being without any exterior doorway of its own, would also have had need for an interior doorway in this same partition wall, to gain access to the commander's exterior doorway.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Whereas several earlier structures, including an earlier officer's lodging, were of an earth-fast piquet construction, this new officer's lodging was not. Rather, it was to be built to the same standard as that of the commander (with basement, stone foundations and chimneys with walls no doubt, of 1/2 timber). Perhaps too it was finished off, inside and out, with a mortar rendering. Finally, the residence may have been smaller than desired, given later directions that this lodging was not to be enlarged.
D'ASSELEUR PLAN
According to the layout, the subaltern officers (immediately east of the commander) and the commander (west), separated by a partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, shared the western portion of a larger complex that also included, to the east, and likewise separated by a thin partition wall, a combined lodging for the storehouse keeper and chaplain. Although serving the subaltern's lodging was a back-to-back fireplace, set into a dividing partition thinner than the building's exterior walls, to provide a heat source for two rooms, each with a window, one in the building's south wall, the other in its north, not illustrated were exterior doorways. If one of the windows were not a doorway, then, to meet this requirement, interior doorways (not shown) would need to have been placed in the commander's partition wall to gain access to the commander's exterior doorway. Lending strength to this argument is the fact that the commander's lodging, being without any heat source, would also have had need of an interior doorway in this same partition wall, to gain access to one of the subaltern's fireplaces.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
A small mean hut, built specifically to this standard, served as a hospital.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
As late as 1717, the existence of a prison was not acknowledged. However, the next year, directed towards the repair of the barracks, guard house and prison were piquets, sod roofing slabs, moss and human labour. Which particular structure got what was not stated.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
As late as 1717, the existence of a guard house was not acknowledged. However, the next year, directed towards the repair of the barracks, guard house and prison were piquets, sod roofing slabs, moss and human labour. Which particular structure got what was not stated.
The idea of the second phase was to construct buildings surrounded by a small fort incorporating the site of the original barracks. The dimensions, number, and design of the interior structures are, more or less, known, if the following are accepted as factual: The 1734 plans accurately represent what buildings were built that year (one actually stated this - to differentiate between as-built and proposed); the 1733 written specifications and building plans (their specified measurements and illustrated room layouts generally match their scaled counterparts of 1734) provided the builder with general direction; but there were change orders (e.g. King's bakery or chapel spire) to the 1733 plans which the 1734 schemes illustrate.
According to the general layout, the barracks (laying westerly) with its detached latrine and the rations storehouse/chapel/officers' lodging (laying easterly) with its re-located, detached King's bakery (with now a gateway between it and the rations storehouse) were aligned parallel to each other, with their gable ends facing the battery overlooking the water. In behind, perpendicular to the other two stood the commander's lodging (laying northerly). All three formed up around a central 132 x 90 pieds parade ground.
The final design of the fort and forward battery is also understood, but, again, only if the 1734 plans were the ones used. For example, what is known is that a horseshoe battery was to have been raised in 1735, that the enceinte was indefinitely postponed in 1735, and that an [interior] fence[s] was constructed in 1738. Given the previous building indecisiveness, and whether this reflected a patten, to suggest the possibility of last-minute fortification change orders is a debatable point. But if one wishes to ponder its potential, one need only compare the remarkable differences between the 1733 and 1734 fortification profiles, both in defensive techniques and declared dimensions (written).
At any rate, the fort was no doubt of the following design: two bastions joined by three curtains with its two terminating flanks closed off on the harbour side by a batterie à barbette. Surrounding it was an earth and sod parapet, with a ditch, and at its entrance, a combined stationary/draw-bridge structure. In the ditch stood a row of defensive palisades.
As noted, the two written Port Toulouse contracts of 1733 (September) probably set the general tone of building construction activity for the period 1734-1735, if not later, to 1738 as well. They are without surprises, and indeed, for this period, generally reflect the applied technology of Isle Royale. In particular, their specifications, in conjunction with the plans of 1733-1734 touch upon the following structural subjects:
GENERAL BUILDING SPECIFICATIONS
(01) Excavation of earth and landscaping (buildings).
(02) Rubble-stone masonry with a 1/3 lime to 2/3 granular sand ratio mortar (perimeter and bearing partitions).
(03) Brick masonry with a 1/3 lime to 2/3 fine sand mortar (fireplaces/chimneys, ovens, etc.).
(04) Dry rubble-stone masonry (aqueducts and [sanitary] contre-murs).
(05) Masonry with a stone-free clay mortar.
(06) Interior renderings with a common 1/3 lime to 2/3 fine sand mortar followed by a covering white lime-wash.
(07) Flat-stone masonry with a common 1/3 lime to 2/3 fine sand mortar.
(08) Local cut stone (quoins, door surrounds, window surrounds).
(09) Pine timber (roof members including common rafters, joists, etc.).
(10) Nailed 2 pouce thick pine planks - tongued and grooved, planed one side (floorings, stair steps, stringers).
(11) Nailed 2 pouce thick pine [vertical] planks - tongued and grooved, planed two sides, with tringles (partitions).
(12) Nailed 1 pouce thick [pine vertical] boards - tongued and grooved, planed one side (vertical wall finishes, closed ceilings).
(13) Nailed 1 pouce thick [pine vertical] boards - tongued and grooved, planed two sides, with tringles (partitions).
(14) 1 1/4 pouce thick planed, tongued and grooved [vertical] boards (doors, shutters) with pegged, planed oak or merisier emboitures placed [horizontally] top and bottom.
(15) Minimum 1 1/4 pouce thick oak [stock] (pegged window sashes with muntins and drip mouldings set upon their frames, with the units possibly made at Louisbourg).
(16) Shingles (4-5 pouces wide with a proportional length to allow for a 1/3 exposure) nailed to a bevelled (4 pouces) [horizontal] board sheathing (roofs).
(17) Hardware (6 pouce long spring locks and keys, 2 pieds long strap hinges and pintles, 1 1/2 pieds long strap hinges and pintles, 1 pied long strap hinges and pintles, hooks and 4 tenons sets to keep shutters open or closed, staples, spring bolts, sash bolts, thumb latches).
(18) Large iron pieces (forked chimney mantle bars, cramp-irons, hinges longer than 2 pieds).
(19) Window glass and iron points.
(20) Sealing lead (pintles, cramp-irons).
(21) Flashing lead (main ridges, hip ridges).
(22) Paving stones.
GENERAL FORTIFICATION SPECIFICATIONS
(01) Excavation of earth and landscaping (battery, parade ground, ditches).
(02) Palisades (perimeter and interior fencing).
(03) Sod (barbette, etc.).
(04) 3 pouce thick merisier or oak planks, each no less than 9-10 pouces wide (Gun Platforms) .
A clear picture of these buildings ought to emerge through an examination of the general building specifications (see above) and the 1733/1734 plans (see below). However, if the measurements expressed directly on the plans are accurate, then calculations based on them also ought to be correct - but unfortunately this was not always so. Nevertheless, where calculations or scaling might prove useful, the results are so indicated.
Declared destroyed during the 1745 siege of Louisbourg, some of the buildings, in fact, remained partially standing and were integrated into the third construction phase (1749/1750-1758).
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The commander's 1 1/2 storey tall lodging had 4 front facing and 4 rear facing ground floor rooms, and, above, an unspecified number with extra head-room gained by raising the building's perimeter walls 2 pieds higher than its upper flooring level. In the ground floor front area: an end-wall fireplace (and near-by potager) served the kitchen; a vestibule accessed not only the outside door (which had an exterior step), but as well both the ground floor and the stairway to the upper floor; and a back-to-back fireplace (set in the interior bearing wall) heated the two other large rooms. In the ground floor rear area: all four rooms were unheated.
(02) During the construction phase, partitions were placed in both the upper 1/2 storey and storey below.
(03) In the post-construction period, its chimney stacks were apparently raised three pieds higher.
(04) The 1734 plans conflict with the details provided below as follows:
(a) The roofs are not hipped, and are without finials.
(b) The entrance doorway has a transom window.
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 57 pieds long x 29 pieds wide.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) 18 pouces thick main walls rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation.
(03) Exterior wall height: Just under 12 pieds (scaled).
INTERIOR MASONRY PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Of bearing wall thickness.
(02) 18 pouces thick main walls (no doubt rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation).
INTERIOR WOODEN PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) 6 ground floor partitions.
(02) One or more upper floor partitions.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Vertical wood.
(02) Unlikely of bearing wall thickness.
ROOM LAYOUT
QUANTITY
(01) 8 ground floor rooms with a 8 pieds high headroom - from the flooring to the underside of the ceiling joists.
(02) Unspecified upper floor number, with a 7 pieds high (scaled) headroom - from the flooring to the underside of the roof trusses.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor kitchen (16 /12 pieds x 14 1/2 pieds) with 1 front facing window.
(02) Ground floor vestibule (8 pieds x 4 pieds (scaled) with 1 front facing door.
(03) Ground floor large room (17 /12 pieds x 16 1/2 pieds) with 2 front facing window.
(04) Ground floor large room (16 /12 pieds x 14 1/2 pieds) with 1 front facing and 1 side facing window.
(05) Ground floor small room (14 /12 pieds x 9 1/2 pieds) with 1 rear facing window.
(06) Ground floor small room (8 pieds x 11 1/2 pieds (scaled) with 1 rear facing window.
(07) Ground floor small room (16 /12 pieds x 8 1/2 pieds) with 1 rear facing window.
(08) Ground floor small room (14 /12 pieds x 9 1/2 pieds) with 1 rear facing window.
FLOOR JOISTS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground Floor: Wooden sleepers running across the width of the structure, resting on the ground, at grade level or slightly above, with their ends terminating on an interior ledge formed where the foundation and the perimeter wall meet.
(02) Upper Floor: Wooden joists, running across the width of the structure, with their ends apparently embedded in the perimeter wall.
(03) The ground floor sleepers measure more than 26 pieds in length (calculated/scaled). They are all ground supported.
(04) The upper floor joists measure more than 26 pieds in length (calculated/scaled). They are not supported since the wooden partition walls are unlikely of bearing wall thickness.
FLOORING MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground Floor: Wooden material laying on the floor joists.
(02) Upper Floor: Wooden material laying on the floor joists.
STAIRWELL AND STAIRS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 8 pieds wide ground floor U-Shaped stairwell.
(02) 6 stairs to a landing, turn right to 2 stairs to a landing, turn right to 6 stairs to the upper floor.
FIREPLACES
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor masonry kitchen fireplace set in the end-wall.
(02) One ground floor masonry back-to-back fireplace set in a perimeter wall.
(03) Apparently no upper floor fireplaces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor kitchen fireplace: Interior measurement - 5 pieds wide (scaled); Exterior measurement - 7 pieds wide (scaled).
(02) One of the ground floor back-to-back brick fireplaces: Interior measurement - 4 pieds wide (scaled); Exterior measurement - 6 pieds wide (scaled).
(03) One of the back-to-back fireplaces: Interior measurement - 3 1/2 pieds wide (scaled); Exterior measurement - 5 pieds wide (scaled).
WINDOW OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 9 ground floor window openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor: Inside measurement - 4 pieds wide x 4 1/2 pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor: Exterior measurement: - 3 pieds wide x 4 1/2 to 5 pieds high (scaled).
EXTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor door opening.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor: Inside measurement - 4 1/2 pieds wide (scaled) x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor: Exterior measurement - 3 to 3 1/2 pieds wide x 7 1/2 pieds high (scaled).
(04) There is an exterior 2 riser step with a landing.
INTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 7 Ground floor interior door openings.
(02) Unknown number of upper floor door openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor front rooms: 3 pieds wide x 6 pieds high (scaled).
(02) Ground floor rear rooms: 2 1/2 pieds wide x 6 pieds high (scaled).
DORMERS
QUANTITY
(01) 4 are illustrated (5 or 6 are possible).
DESCRIPTION
(01) Framed.
(02) 3 1/2 pieds wide x 6 pieds high.
(03) Locating at perimeter wall plate level.
(04) Gabled roof.
(05) Window Opening: 2 pieds wide x 3 pieds high.
MAIN ROOF
DESCRIPTION
(01) A series of pined principal trusses, with a king post, collar beam and uniting ridge beam, resting on a wooden wall plate placed along the two longitudinal perimeter walls.
(02) A framed roof hipped at both ends terminating at a truss with an external ball finial.
(03) Flared eaves.
ROOFING MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Wooden material over a board sheathing.
CHIMNEY STACKS
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) Ground floor kitchen single fireplace stack (possibly brick): rising in a straight line from the upper floor flooring, exiting at the hip roof - 4 pieds wide x 2 1/2 pieds deep (scaled) with a cap.
(03) Ground floor back-to-back fireplace stack (possibly brick): rising possibly obliquely [from the upper floor flooring and] exiting near the ridge - indeterminate pieds wide x 3 1/2 pieds deep (scaled) with a non-brick cap.
GARDENS
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) One to either side of the commander's building.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) On the ground floor, the 1 1/2 storey tall barracks had three side-by-side soldiers' rooms (2 with small [sergeant's] rooms) and 2 water-side facing rooms - a guard-house and a prison - all 5 rooms accessed by an outside door. Above, the upper storey was inaccessible by stairs. A back-to-back fireplace, set in an interior bearing wall, served two barracks rooms with another dual fireplace complex (offset back-to-back), also set in a bearing wall, provided heat to the remaining barracks room and guardhouse. The prison was unheated.
(02) In the post-construction period, its chimney stacks were apparently raised three pieds higher.
(03) The 1734 plans conflict with the details provided below as follows:
(a) There is at least one dormer facing the parade ground.
(b) The prison does not have a window.
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 73 pieds long x 25 wide pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) 18 pouces thick main walls rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation.
(03) Exterior wall height: Just under 8 1/2 pieds (scaled).
INTERIOR MASONRY PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) 3.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Of bearing wall thickness.
(02) 18 pouces thick main walls (no doubt rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation).
INTERIOR WOODEN PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) 5 ground floor partitions.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Vertical wood.
(02) Not of bearing wall thickness.
ROOM LAYOUT
QUANTITY
(01) 7 ground floor rooms with a 7 pieds high head-room - from flooring to the underside of the ceiling joists.
(02) Unspecified upper floor number, with a 6 pieds high (scaled) headroom - from the flooring to the underside of the roof trusses.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor barracks room (18 /12 pieds x 22 pieds) with 1 front facing window and door.
(02) Ground floor sergeant's room (6 pieds x 6 pieds (scaled) with 1 front facing window.
(03) Ground floor barracks room (18 1/2 pieds x 22 pieds) with 1 front facing window and door.
(04) Ground floor sergeant's room (6 pieds x 6 pieds (scaled) with 1 front facing window.
(05) Ground floor barracks room (18 /12 pieds x 22 pieds) with 1 front facing window and door.
(06) Ground floor guard-house (13 1/2 pieds x 14 pieds (scaled) with 1 front facing window and door.
(07) Ground floor prison (13 1/2 pieds x 8 pieds (scaled) with 1 side facing window and door.
FLOOR JOISTS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground Floor: Wooden sleepers running across the width of the structure, resting on the ground, at grade level with their ends apparently butting against or embedded in the perimeter wall. The ledge, formed where the foundation and the perimeter wall meet, faces the exterior and is thus unavailable for sleeper support.
(02) Upper Floor: Wooden joists, running across the width of the structure, with their ends apparently embedded in the perimeter wall.
(03) The ground floor sleepers measure 22 or more pieds in length). They are all ground supported.
(04) The upper floor joists measure more than 22 pieds in length. Excepting for the prison and guardhouse joists, they are unsupported by a bearing wall. The sergeant's wooden partition walls are unlikely of bearing wall thickness.
FLOORING MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground Floor: Wooden material laying on the floor joists.
(02) Upper Floor: Wooden material laying on the floor joists.
FIREPLACES
QUANTITY
(01) 2 ground floor masonry back-to-back fireplaces set in a perimeter wall. One of the complexes is not a true back-to-back as one is off-set from the other.
(02) Apparently no upper floor fireplaces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) All ground fireplaces: Interior measurements - 4 1/2 pieds wide (scaled); Exterior measurements - 6 pieds wide (scaled).
(02) One ground floor fireplace: Interior measurements - 4 pieds high (scaled); Exterior measurements - 6 pieds wide to the ceiling beams (scaled).
WINDOW OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 7 ground floor window openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor barracks and guard-house windows: Inside Measurement - 3 1/2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor barracks and guard-house windows: Exterior Measurement - 3 pieds wide x 5 pieds high (scaled).
(04) Ground floor sergeant's and prison windows: Inside Measurement - 3 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(05) Ground floor sergeant's and prison windows: Exterior Measurement - 2 pieds wide x 5 pieds high (scaled).
EXTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 5 ground floor door openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor barracks and guard-house: Inside measurement - 4 pieds wide (scaled) x 6 1/2 pieds high (scaled) for one barracks room.
(03) Ground floor barracks: Exterior measurement - 3 pieds wide x 7 pieds high (scaled).
(04) Ground floor guard house: Exterior measurement - 3 pieds wide x 8 pieds high (scaled).
(05) Ground floor prison: Interior measurement - 3 pieds x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(06) Ground floor prison: Exterior measurement - 2 pieds x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(07) There is an exterior step-up for the 3 barracks room.
INTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 2 Ground floor interior door openings.
(02) Unknown number of upper floor door openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor Sergeant's rooms: 2 1/2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
MAIN ROOF
DESCRIPTION
(01) A series of pined principal trusses braced at floor level, with a king post, collar beam and uniting ridge beam, resting on a wooden wall plate placed along the two longitudinal perimeter walls.
(02) A framed roof hipped at both ends terminating at a truss with an external ball finial.
(03) Flared eaves.
ROOFING MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION (01) Wooden material over a board sheathing.
CHIMNEY STACKS
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) One ground floor fireplace stack (possibly brick): [rising from the upper floor flooring] to the near the ridge - indeterminate pieds wide x 4 pieds deep (scaled) with a non-brick cap.
(03) One ground floor fireplace stack (possibly brick): rising obliquely from the upper floor to the ridge - 5 pieds wide x 4 pieds deep (scaled) with a non-brick cap.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The ground floor of this 1 storey five hole latrine was divided by a partition wall, into two compartments of 3 and 2 holes, probably serving both soldiers and officers. Each of the compartments had an exterior door and a window. Although detached from the barracks, the latrine had a side wall which was an extension of the side wall of the barracks.
(02) The 1734 plans conflict with the details provided below as follows:
(a) The latrine's side wall is not extended to meet the barracks side wall.
(b) One plan indicates only a 4 hole latrine (3 and 1).
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 18 pieds long x 8 1/2 pieds wide (scaled) with 3 pieds long extended side wall meeting up with the barracks side wall.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) Probably 18 pouces thick main walls rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation.
(03) Exterior wall height: 8 pieds (scaled).
INTERIOR WOODEN PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor partitions.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Vertical wood.
(02) Not of bearing wall thickness.
ROOM LAYOUT
QUANTITY
(01) 2 ground floor rooms.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor 3 hole latrine (8 1/2 pieds x 5 pieds (scaled) with 1 front facing window and door.
(02) Ground floor 2 hole latrine (6 pieds x 5 pieds (scaled) with 1 side facing window and 1 front facing door.
WINDOW OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 2 ground floor window openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor windows: Inside Measurement - 3 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor windows: Exterior Measurement - 2 pieds wide x 5 pieds high (scaled).
EXTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 2 ground floor door openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor: Inside measurement - 3 pieds wide (scaled) x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor: Exterior measurement - 2 pieds wide x indeterminate pied high (scaled).
MAIN ROOF
DESCRIPTION
(01) Hipped roof at both ends terminating with an external ball finial.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The ground floor, of this 1 1/2 storey tall complex consisted, side-by-side, of four main compartments: Two Officers' lodging (with the water-side room once sub-divided); the chapel; and the rations storehouse. Each of the compartments and King's bakery had an outside door opening up upon the parade ground. Above the main structure, the upper storey was inaccessible by stairs. A back-to-back fireplace, set in an interior bearing wall, served the two officers' rooms. The rations storehouse and chapel were unheated.
(02) In the post-construction period, its chimney stacks were apparently raised three pieds higher.
(03) The 1734 plans conflict with the details provided below as follows:
(a) There was a central spire [bell tower].
(b) The roof had a large centrally located raised dormer.
(c) On one 1734 plan, the entrance doors and windows for the chapel and rations storehouse have been reversed. On another, the chapel only illustrates this reversal.
(d) On one 1734 plan, the complex has at least 4 dormers. These face the parade ground.
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 73 pieds long x 25 pieds wide (main structure).
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) 18 pouces thick main walls rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation.
(03) Exterior wall height: 8 pieds (scaled).
INTERIOR MASONRY PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Of bearing wall thickness.
(02) 18 pouces thick main walls (no doubt rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation).
INTERIOR WOODEN PARTITION WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) 2 ground floor partitions.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Vertical wood.
(02) Not of bearing wall thickness.
ROOM LAYOUT
QUANTITY
(01) 5 ground floor rooms with a 7 pieds high head-room - from flooring to the underside of the ceiling joists.
(02) Unspecified upper floor number, with a 6 pieds high (scaled) headroom - from the flooring to the underside of the roof trusses.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor officers room (14 1/2 pieds x 14 1/2 pieds (scaled) with 1 front facing window and door.
(02) Ground floor officers room (14 1/2 pieds x 8 pieds (scaled) with 1 rear facing window.
(03) Ground floor officers room (16 pieds x 23 pieds) with 1 front facing window and door.
(04) Ground floor chapel (11 pieds x 23 pieds) with 1 front facing window and door.
(05) Ground floor rations storehouse (25 pieds x 23 pieds with 1 front facing window and door.
FLOOR JOISTS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground Floor: Wooden sleepers running across the width of the structure, resting on the ground, at grade level with their ends apparently butting against or embedded in the perimeter wall. The ledge, formed where the foundation and the perimeter wall meet, faces the exterior and is thus unavailable for sleeper support.
(02) Upper Floor: Wooden joists, running across the width of the structure, with their ends apparently embedded in the perimeter wall.
(03) The ground floor sleepers measure 23 or more pieds in length). They are all ground supported.
(04) The upper floor joists measure more than 23 pieds in length. They are all unsupported since the wooden partition walls of the officer's room are unlikely of bearing wall thickness.
FLOORING MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground Floor: Wooden material laying on the floor joists.
(02) Upper Floor: Wooden material laying on the floor joists.
FIREPLACES
QUANTITY
(01) 1 ground floor masonry back-to-back fireplace set in an interior bearing wall.
(02) Apparently no upper floor fireplaces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) One ground floor fireplace: Interior measurements - 3 pieds wide (scaled); Exterior measurements - 5 pieds wide (scaled).
(02) One ground floor fireplace: Interior measurements - 3 1/2 pieds wide (scaled); Exterior measurements - 5 1/2 pieds wide to the ceiling beams (scaled).
WINDOW OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 5 ground floor window openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor windows: Inside Measurement - all except one probably 3 1/2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor windows: Exterior Measurement - all except one probably 2 1/2 pieds wide x 5 pieds high (scaled).
(04) Ground officers' window: Inside Measurement - 2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(05) Ground floor officers' window: Exterior Measurement - 1 1/2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
EXTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 4 ground floor door openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor officer: Inside measurement - 3 pieds wide x 6 pieds (scaled).
(03) Ground floor officer: Exterior measurement - 2 pieds wide x 7 pieds (scaled).
(04) Ground floor officers: Inside measurement - 3 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(05) Ground floor officers: Exterior measurement - 2 pieds wide x 7 pieds high (scaled).
(06) Ground floor chapel: Inside measurement - 3 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(07) Ground floor chapel: Exterior measurement - 2 pieds wide x 7 pieds high (scaled).
(08) Ground floor rations storehouse: Interior measurement - 4 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(09) Ground floor rations storehouse: Exterior measurement - 3 1/2 pieds x 7 pieds high (scaled).
(10) There is an exterior step-up to all rooms.
INTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 2 Ground floor interior door openings.
(02) Unknown number of upper floor door openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor officer's rooms: 2 pieds wide x 6 pieds high (scaled).
(02) Ground floor officer's rooms: 2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
MAIN ROOF
DESCRIPTION
(01) A series of pined principal trusses braced at floor level, with a king post, collar beam and uniting ridge beam, resting on a wooden wall plate placed along the two longitudinal perimeter walls.
(02) A framed roof hipped at both ends terminating at a truss with an external ball finial.
(03) Flared eaves.
ROOFING MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION
(01) Wooden material over a board sheathing.
CHIMNEY STACKS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) Ground floor fireplace stack (possibly brick): rising obliquely from the upper floor flooring to near the ridge - 3 1/2 pieds wide x 3 1/2 pieds deep (scaled) with a non-brick cap.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The 1733 descriptions and dimensions were used where not in conflict with the 1734 plans.
(02) The 1734 plans conflict with the details provided below as follows:
(a) On one 1734 plan a window replaced the doorway that had faced the parade ground. The doorway now appears to face the rations storehouse.
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 9 pieds long x 18 1/2 pieds deep (scaled).
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) [18 pouces thick main walls probably rising off a 2 pieds thick foundation].
(03) Exterior wall height: 8 pieds (scaled).
ROOM LAYOUT
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor room [with a 7 pieds high head-room - from flooring to the underside of the ceiling joists].
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor bakery (15 pieds x 7 3/4 pieds (scaled) with 1 parade ground facing door and 1 water-side side facing window.
FIREPLACES
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor masonry bake oven.
DESCRIPTION
(01) One ground floor oven: Interior measurements - 2 pieds wide x 5 1/2 pieds deep (scaled); Exterior measurements - 7 pieds wide (scaled).
WINDOW OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor window openings.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground bakery window: Inside Measurement - 3 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor bakery window: Exterior Measurement - 2 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
EXTERIOR DOOR OPENINGS
QUANTITY
(01) One ground floor door opening.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Embrasure style.
(02) Ground floor : Inside measurement - 3 3/4 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds high (scaled).
(03) Ground floor : Exterior measurement - 2 3/4 pieds wide x 7 pieds high (scaled).
(04) There is an exterior step-up.
MAIN ROOF
DESCRIPTION
(01) Hipped roof at one end [but no doubt, both] terminating with an external ball finial.
(02) Flared eaves.
CHIMNEY STACKS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Masonry.
(02) Ground floor fireplace stack (possibly brick): rising from the upper floor flooring to exit at the roof - 4 pieds wide x indeterminate pieds deep (scaled) with a non-brick cap.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
There is a gateway between the detached King's bakery and the rations storehouse. It appears to be of masonry, with finials and an overhead lintel.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The contractor undertaking the construction effort of 1733-1735 would have raised bridges, forges and lime kilns.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
By the end of 1734, the ditch was near complete. In 1735, construction of the battery was to begin.
This small fort, if built according to the 1733-1734 plans and contracts, would have consisted of two bastions to the rear, joined by three curtains, terminated at the front by a harbour-facing barbette battery (mounting 10 to 12 cannons placed upon a wooden plank platform). Constructed of earth and sod, its perimeter parapet walls were completely surrounded by a palisaded fence, of which most were sunk into an exterior ditch (nearly encompassing the fort) designed, to the east of the battery, beneath the bridge to the main gate, to re-direct mountain water into the harbour. Within the fort stood a central parade ground surrounded on three sides by King's establishment buildings and the said battery.
The earth, for the fort and parade ground, came from the excavations for the buildings and ditch, but, if more was required, it was to be imported from other places. The battery, desired to be as circular as possible so as to maximize its harbour coverage, was slightly askew. In barbette, its earthen parapet (its batter taking the form shown on the plans) was revetted plank-like, with sods, 20-24 pouces thick and 12-15 pouces long by the greatest width possible to ensure a good bond, the one upon the other, in its entire thickness and length. These sods were to be laid on a thin bed of fine earth, every 6 pouces [sic] of height. Finally, the earthen parapet was to be raised in lifts of 2 pieds well positioned above and against the tail of the sods.
The planking for the platform of the battery, consisted of three pouce thick merisier or oak planks, with each, no less than 9 to 10 pouces wide, nailed with two 7 pouce nails per sleeper (each placed perpendicular to the face of the battery). The planks were to be sound, dry, free of knots or wane, and finished properly with parallel edges. The length of the planks laid parallel to the face of the battery, and organized in panels, was dependant upon the distance between the embrasures (the plans suggest 11 embrasures - and where, using one of two possible ramps, 6 iron cannons may have been mounted in 1744).
The perimeter and interior fencing consisted of straight palisades, of pine, 10 pieds long, 6 or more pouces in diameter, pointed at one end. and set one against the other. Planted in a 2 1/2 pieds deep excavated and back-filled ditch, the 7 1/2 pieds high fence achieved its rigidity in two ways: by a stringer, embedded and pegged (hardwood pegs, and possibly with more than one) to each palisade; and by [main] posts, set every 10 pieds (against which the said stringers are to be placed), and supported, front and back, by braces [attached] 3 pieds from ground level. In the case of the perimeter fencing, the stringer was attached on the parapet side.
Because the 1734 plans incorporate proposals, they do not do justice to the final configuration of either the interior fencing arrangement or the parade ground. Apparently, however, the interior fences may have consumed 1433 palisades, and the parade ground measured 21 toise in width.
THE PROFILE
The 1734 plans illustrated the earth and sod fortification by means of a detailed profile showing, in large scale, general ditch, palisade, escarp, parapet, banquette and like constructions. From the variety of measurements, other calculations, such as degree of batter, are possible. Given the complicated nature of this scheme (Profile en Grand et commun du Fort), it is best to consult the profile directly. However, the parapet did provide one of the more easily described measurements: 8 pieds deep along a downward sloping surface, standing, at the lower edge, 9 pieds higher than floor of the ditch in which stood a 7 pieds high palisade fence. The measurements of the banquette are also describable: 4 1/2 pieds high to the higher top surface of the parapet with a 4 pieds deep standing/kneeling area lying in behind.
Built to the east of the previous site, but utilizing at least one of the former masonry buildings of the former complex, this new establishment of provisional buildings rose with only its walls and connecting palisades serving as its outer defence.
The rations storehouse (laying westerly) and commander's lodging (laying easterly) stood in a line with their long sides facing the water. Aligned behind them, perpendicular, was the longer barracks/officers' lodging/and chapel complex. To the east of the barracks and commander's structures stood the lodging of the chaplain and surgeon. Shortly after their construction, the officers' lodgings (if not others) were enlarged even as the former stone buildings were being repaired - in both cases, in some unspecified manner. At some point too, a guard house appeared in the mix.
The declared weakness of these piquet constructions lay, not in technique, whose finite life was well-known and accepted, but rather, in this particular case, in its application (poor workmanship). The first phase earth-fast constructions had lasted upwards of 20 years, or, in other words, as long as expected. Though these 3rd phase structures were considered provisional, all things equal, they might have enjoyed an equal life-span had not a military invasion curtailed their usefulness.
Whether there were ever more formal fortifications is a moot point, for if they were built during this phase, they went unmentioned. However, in 1757, there was described a redoubt no longer in use. When it was last utilized is uncertain. However, it was deemed repairable, with its walls still standing high enough to protect a soldier.
For purposes of scaling, Map 1751-36 appears to be the most accurate.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The statement of expenses conflicts with the scaled plan which illustrates a cabaneau (12 pieds x 9 pieds, with a roof gabled at both ends).
(02) The statement of expenses conflicts with the scaled plan which illustrates a roof hipped at both ends.
(03) Possibly there is a salle.
(04) It was constructed using soldier's labour, thus raising claims of poor workmanship.
TOTAL COST
(01) Circa 1845 livres 11 sols 10 deniers (not including its furnishings).
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) By statement of expenses: 119 running pieds of total length.
(02) By scaled plan: 36 pieds long x 22 pieds wide.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Earth-fast vertical piquets with each piquet:
(a) Round.
(b) 10 pieds long .
(c) Approximately 6 pouces in diameter.
(d) Set 2 pieds deep into the ground.
(e) Set perpendicular in the ground.
(f) Set in an excavated trench and back-filled.
(g) Set contiguous with a horizontal plank stringer, serving the function of a wall plate, nailed against a portion of the piquets.
(h) Caulked with a clay bousillage at its vertical joint.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres 10 sols per running toise (Includes the supply and transport of piquets, other materials, associated work, and workmanship).
TIMBER
QUANTITY
(01) 112 cubic pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor flooring sleepers.
(02) Ground floor ceiling/flooring beams.
(03) Roofing timbers.
PRICE
(01) 12 [Sic: should be 16] sols per cubic pied (Includes materials and workmanship).
MAIN ROOF: ROOFINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 35 square toises 5 pieds 4 pouces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Nailed double boards.
PRICE
(01) 9 Livres 10 sols per double square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
THE TWO GABLE ENDS
QUANTITY
(01) 6 square toises 3 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Boards, clapboard style.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres 10 sols per square toise.
GROUND FLOOR: FLOORINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 20 square toises 5 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Nailed 1 1/2 pouce thick planks.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
UPPER FLOOR: FLOORINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 20 square toises 5 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Nailed 1 1/2 pouce thick planks.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
PARTITIONS AND INTERIOR WALL CLADDINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 27 square toises 3 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) [Vertical] nailed boards.
LOCATION
(01) Partitions separating the chambres from the salles.
(02) Interior wall cladding at several locations.
PRICE
(01) 8 livres per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
DOORS AND EXTERIOR SHUTTERS
QUANTITY
(01) 4 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 6 doors and nails.
(02) 6 shutters and nails.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 10 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
[WINDOW] SASHES
QUANTITY
(01) One square toise 2 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 7 sashes - large and small.
PRICE
(01) 30 livres per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
FIREPLACES [AND CHIMNEY STACKS]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Back-to-back [rubble-stone] fireplace [with its chimney stack].
FINISH
(01) Clay mortar bond with lime and sand crépis à pierres apparentes.
PRICE
(01) 190 livres (Includes materials and workmanship).
FIREPLACES [AND CHIMNEY STACKS]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Single [rubble stone] fireplace [with its chimney stack].
FINISH
(01) Clay mortar bond with a lime and sand crépis à pierres apparentes.
PRICE
(01) 145 livres (Includes materials and workmanship).
[DOOR] HINGES
QUANTITY
(01) 4 pairs.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 2 pairs of strap-hinges with their pintles.
(02) 2 pairs penture à pommelles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
SHUTTERS: HINGES
QUANTITY
(01) 6 pairs.
DESCRIPTION
(01) strap-hinges.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
[WINDOW] SASHES: HINGES
QUANTITY
(01) 3 pairs.
PRICE
(01) One livre 10 sols per pair.
[DOOR] LOCKS
QUANTITY
(01) 3.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified with fittings.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres each.
[WINDOW SASH] FICHE A VASE 10 POUCE HINGES
QUANTITY
(01) 4 pairs.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres 10 sols each.
[WINDOW SASH] VERROUILS A RESSORT SPRING BARREL BOLTS
QUANTITY
(01) 4.
PRICE
(01) One livre 10 sols each.
[WINDOW SASH] TARGETTE BOLTS
QUANTITY
(01) 3.
PRICE
(01) One livre 10 sols each.
[DOOR] LATCHES
QUANTITY
(01) 5.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres 10 sols each.
[WINDOW SASH] GLASS PANES
QUANTITY
(01) 84.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Of different dimensions.
PRICE
(01) 9 sols each.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The statement of expenses conflicts with the scaled plan which illustrates a roof hipped at both ends.
(02) The scaled plan illustrates 3 rooms for the officers and one room of an unspecified use.
(03) The scaled plan illustrates a lodging for 48 solders.
(04) Boston boards were used to meet its roofing requirements.
(05) Possibly there is a chambre.
(06) It was constructed using soldier's labour, thus raising claims of poor workmanship.
TOTAL COST
(01) Circa 2879 livres 8 sols 9 deniers (not including its furnishings).
PERIMETER WALLS AND INTERIOR PARTITIONS
[Barracks, officers quarters, chapel and prison]
FOOTPRINT
(01) By statement of expenses: 273 1/2 running pieds (includes 1 interior partition) of total length.
(02) By scaled plan: circa 73 pieds long x 23 pieds wide with an attached prison at one end, and a chapel extension at the other, sectioned as follows:
(a) circa 10 pieds long x 13 wide pieds (Prison attachment).
(b) circa 38 long x 23 pieds wide (Barracks).
(c) circa 21 pieds long x 23 pieds wide (Officers quarters).
(d) 14 pieds long x 23 pieds wide (Chapel).
(e) circa 5 pieds long x 12 pieds wide (Chapel extension).
DESCRIPTION
(01) Earth-fast vertical piquets with each piquet:
(a) Round.
(b) 10 pieds long.
(c) Approximately 6 pouces in diameter.
(d) Set 2 pieds deep into the ground.
(e) Set perpendicular in the ground.
(f) Set in an excavated trench and back-filled.
(g) Set contiguous with a horizontal plank stringer, serving the function of a wall plate, nailed against a portion of the piquets.
(h) Caulked with a clay bousillage at its vertical joint.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres 10 sols per running toise (Includes the supply and transport of piquets, other materials, associated work, and workmanship).
TIMBER
QUANTITY
(01) 222 cubic pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor flooring sleepers.
(02) Ground floor ceiling/flooring beams (for the Barracks, Officer's Lodging, and Chapel).
(03) Roofing timbers.
PRICE
(01) 16 sols per cubic pied (Includes materials and workmanship).
GROUND FLOOR: FLOORINGS (Barracks)
QUANTITY
(01) 20 square toises 1 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Piquets flattened on top surface and placed upon flattened sleepers.
PRICE
(01) 4 livres per square toise.
UPPER FLOOR: FLOORINGS [Barracks]
QUANTITY
(01) 19 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Planed, tongued and grooved planks.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
DOORS (Barracks)
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 5 pieds 6 pouces high x 3 pieds wide.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres 10 sols (Includes materials and workmanship).
DOOR HINGES (Barracks)
QUANTITY
(01) One pair.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Strap-hinges with their pintles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
DOOR TRANSOMS (Barracks)
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Dormant frame with 8 glass panes.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres.
[DOOR] LATCHES [Barracks]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Thumb latch.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres 10 sols.
FIREPLACES [AND CHIMNEY STACKS]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Back-to-back [rubble-stone] fireplace [with its chimney stack] with an additional small fireplace in one of its sides servicing an officer's room.
FINISH
(01) Clay mortar bond with a lime and sand crépis.
PRICE
(01) 240 livres (Includes materials and workmanship).
FIREPLACES [AND CHIMNEY STACKS]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Single [rubble-stone] fireplace [with its chimney stack].
FINISH
(01) Clay mortar bond with a lime and sand crépis.
PRICE
(01) 145 livres (Includes materials and workmanship).
MAIN ROOF: ROOFINGS (Barracks, officers quarters, chapel, prison)
QUANTITY
(01) 73 square toises 5 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) [Nailed] Double [boards].
PRICE
(01) 9 Livres 10 sols per [double ] square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
THE TWO GABLE ENDS
(The large building [Barracks and officers' quarters], chapel, prison)
QUANTITY
(01) 8 square toises 2 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Boards [clapboard style].
PRICE
(01) 6 livres 10 sols per square toise.
PARTITIONS (Barracks)
QUANTITY
(01) Unspecified.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Small planed [nailed] board partition separating the sergeant from the soldiers.
PRICE
(01) Unspecified (Includes materials and workmanship).
DOORS (Prison)
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified.
PRICE
(01) 4 livres 10 sols.
DOOR HINGES [Prison]
QUANTITY
(01) One pair.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Strap-hinges with their pintles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
DOOR LOCKS [Prison]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Lock à bosse with its bol.t
PRICE
(01) 6 livres.
GROUND FLOOR: FLOORINGS (Officers' quarters)
QUANTITY
(01) 17 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Planks.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
UPPER FLOOR: FLOORINGS [Officers' quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 17 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Planks.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
PARTITIONS AND INTERIOR WALL CLADDINGS (Officers' quarters)
QUANTITY
(01) 23 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) [Vertical nailed boards].
PRICE
(01) 8 livres per square toise.
DOORS AND EXTERIOR SHUTTERS [Officers' quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 2 square toises 1 pied.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 4 batten doors.
(02) 2 batten shutters.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 10 sols per square toise.
[WINDOW] SASHES [Officers quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Dormant sashes, each with 9 panes of glass.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres 4 sols each.
[DOOR AND SHUTTER] HINGES [Officers' quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 6 pairs.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Strap-hinges with their pintles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
[DOOR] LOCKS (Officers' quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres each.
[DOOR] LATCHES [Officers quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 4.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Thumb latch.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres 10 sols.
SHUTTER HOOKS AND EYES [Officers' quarters]
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Hooks and eyes.
PRICE
(01) 12 sols each set.
GROUND FLOOR: FLOORINGS (Chapel)
QUANTITY
(01) 8 square toises 5 pieds 8 pouces divided into two sections.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Planks.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise.
UPPER FLOOR: CLOSED CEILING [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) 8 square toises 5 pieds 8 pouces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Tongued and groove ceiling boards planned one side.
PRICE
(01) 8 livres.
INTERIOR WALL CLADDINGS [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) 8 square toises 3 pieds (includes alter table, steps, shelf and steps).
DESCRIPTION
(01) [vertical nailed] tongued and grooved boards planned one side.
PRICE
(01) 8 livres per square toise.
[WINDOW] SASHES [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 2 sashes, each with 4 panes of glass.
PRICE
(01) 3 livres 4 sols each.
EXTERIOR SHUTTERS [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) 2 square toises 1 pied.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 2.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres each (Includes wood, nails and workmanship).
SHUTTER HOOKS AND EYES [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Hooks and eyes.
PRICE
(01) 12 sols each set.
DOORS [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Double board construction, nailed with a diamond shaped pattern.
PRICE
(01) 12 [Sic: likely 18] livres each (Includes materials and workmanship).
[DOOR] HINGES [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) One pair.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Strap-hinges with their pintles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
[DOOR] LATCHES [Chapel]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Thumb latch.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres 10 sols.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The statement of expenses conflicts with the scaled plan which illustrates a roof hipped at both ends.
(02) The statement of expenses for the gable ends of the rations storehouse and chaplain's/surgeons residence indicates the same measurement total (5 square toises) for buildings of approximately the same scaled width. Thus, this measurement calculation is no doubt correct. The statement of expense for the main roof of the rations storehouse has no other building with a corresponding measurement total. But, in comparison to the others, this figure does appear to be reasonable.
Given the above, the statement of expenses thus contains two major errors in its roof price calculations (320 Livres 17 Sols [9] Deniers and 98 Livres 10 Sols). No doubt, this happened when the figures were transferred from a working to the final copy.
The final total for the entire building of 593 Livres 16 Sols 3 Deniers, is also inaccurate. In determining this sum, the 98 Livres 10 Sols error was corrected, but the 320 Livres 17 Sols figure was not.
(03) Boston boards were used to meet its roofing requirements.
(04) It was constructed using soldier's labour, thus raising claims of poor workmanship.
(05) Sometimes known as a King's storehouse.
TOTAL COST
(01) 593 livres 16 sols 3 deniers. [Corrected total: 565 livres 6 sols 3 deniers].
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 116 1/2 running pieds of total length.
(02) By scaled plan: circa 38 pieds long x 20 wide pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Earth-fast vertical piquets with each piquet:
(a) Round.
(b) 10 pieds long.
(c) Approximately 6 pouces in diameter.
(d) Set 2 pieds deep into the ground.
(e) Set perpendicular in the ground.
(f) Set in an excavated trench and back-filled.
(g) Set contiguous with a horizontal plank stringer, serving the function of a wall plate, nailed against a portion of the piquets.
(h) Caulked with a clay bousillage at its vertical joint.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres 10 sols per running toise (Includes the supply and transport of piquets, other materials, associated work, and workmanship).
TIMBER
QUANTITY
(01) 94 cubic pieds 9 pouces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor ceiling/flooring beams.
(02) Wall plates.
(03) Roofing timbers.
PRICE
(01) 16 sols per cubic pied (Includes materials and workmanship).
DOORS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Boards with battens.
PRICE
(01) 8 livres (Includes materials and workmanship).
[DOOR] HINGES
QUANTITY
(01) One pair.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Strap-hinges with their pintles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
DOOR LOCKS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres each.
MAIN ROOF: ROOFINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 30 square toises 4 pieds 8 pouces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Double boards.
PRICE
(01) 9 livres 10 sols per [double ] square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
THE TWO GABLE ENDS
QUANTITY
(01) 5 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Boards, clapboard style.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres 10 sols per square toise.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The statement of expenses agrees with the scaled plan which illustrates a roof gabled at both ends.
(02) It was constructed using soldier's labour, thus raising claims of poor workmanship.
TOTAL COST
(01) Circa 1438 livres 6 sols 8 derniers (not including its furnishings).
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 107 running pieds of total length.
(02) By scaled plan: circa 31 pieds long x 20 pieds wide with an extension, at one end to the side, measuring 10 pieds long by 9 wide pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Earth-fast vertical piquets with each piquet:
(a) Round.
(b) 10 pieds long.
(c) Approximately 6 pouces in diameter.
(d) Set 2 pieds deep into the ground.
(e) Set perpendicular in the ground.
(f) Set in an excavated trench and back-filled.
(g) Set contiguous with a horizontal plank stringer, serving the function of a wall plate, nailed against a portion of the piquets.
(h) Caulked with a clay bousillage at its vertical joint.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres 10 sols per running toise (Includes the supply and transport of piquets, other materials, associated work, and workmanship).
INFILL
QUANTITY
(01) Unspecified.
DESCRIPTION
(01) An [additional] clay bousillage caulking in all the joints of the piquets.
LOCATION
(01) Chaplain's lodging.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres.
TIMBER
QUANTITY
(01) 130 cubic pieds 10 pouces.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Ground floor sleepers.
(02) Ground floor ceiling/flooring beams.
(03) Roofing timbers.
PRICE
(01) 16 sols per cubic pied (Includes materials and workmanship).
MAIN ROOF: ROOFINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 29 square toises 2 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Nailed double boards.
PRICE
(01) 9 livres 10 sols per double square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
THE TWO GABLE ENDS
QUANTITY
(01) 5 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Boards, clapboard style.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres 10 sols per square toise.
FIREPLACES [AND CHIMNEY STACKS]
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Back-to-back [rubble-stone] fireplace [with its chimney stack].
FINISH
(01) Clay mortar bond with lime and sand crépis à pierres apparentes.
PRICE
(01) 190 livres (Includes materials and workmanship).
GROUND FLOOR: FLOORINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 17 square toises 5 pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified [planks].
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise [Includes materials and workmanship].
UPPER FLOOR: FLOORINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 17 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified [planks].
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 13 sols per square toise [Includes materials and workmanship].
PARTITIONS AND INTERIOR WALL CLADDINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 27 square toises.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified [vertical boards].
LOCATION
(01) In both lodgings (At least a cabinet and a chambre existed in the surgeons lodging).
PRICE
(01) 8 livres per square toise [Includes materials and workmanship].
WINDOW ]SASHES[
QUANTITY
(01) 2.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Dormant sashes, each with 9 panes of glass.
PRICE
(01) 7 livres 4 sols each [Includes materials and workmanship].
WINDOW ]SASHES[
QUANTITY
(01) 3.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Sashes, each with 4 panes of glass.
PRICE
(01) 3 livres 4 sols each (Includes materials and workmanship).
DOORS AND EXTERIOR SHUTTERS
QUANTITY
(01) 3 square toises 1 pied.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 6 doors like previous ones.
(02) 5 shutters like previous ones.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres 10 sols per square toise (Includes materials and workmanship).
[DOOR SHUTTER] HINGES
QUANTITY
(01) 11 pairs .
DESCRIPTION
(01) Strap-hinges with their pintles.
PRICE
(01) 5 livres per pair.
[DOOR] LOCKS
QUANTITY
(01) 3.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified with fittings.
PRICE
(01) 6 livres each.
[DOOR] LATCHES
QUANTITY
(01) 6.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Thumb latch.
PRICE
(01) 2 livres 10 sols.
SHUTTER HOOKS AND EYES
QUANTITY
(01) 5.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Hooks and eyes.
PRICE
(01) 12 sols each set.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The statement of expenses conflicts with the scaled plan which does not illustrate a bakery. This would suggest that the bakery, which utilized 2 walls of the former pre-1745 [bakery] lies outside the boundaries of this plan.
(02) It was constructed using soldier's labour, thus raising claims of poor workmanship.
(03) The [pre-existing ovens] required at least 7,500 bricks to repair them.
TOTAL COST
(01) Circa 194 livres 15 sols (not including its furnishings).
PERIMETER WALLS
FOOTPRINT
(01) 27 running pieds of total length (2 walls only).
OVEN AND CHIMNEY STACKS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Brick oven with its torchis stack.
PRICE
(01) 100 livres [Includes materials and workmanship].
MAIN ROOF: ROOFINGS
QUANTITY
(01) Unspecified.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Rafters: Partly of squared-off piquets and partly of round piquets.
(02) Covering: Tree bark.
PRICE
(01) 40 livres.
THE TWO GABLE ENDS
QUANTITY
(01) Unspecified.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Bousillage and clay torchis.
PRICE
(01) 9 livres (Includes materials and workmanship.
GLASS PANES
QUANTITY
(01) 4.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Unspecified.
PRICE
(01) 10 sols each.
GROUND FLOOR: FLOORINGS
QUANTITY
(01) 25.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Flattened on upper surface.
PRICE
(01) 10 livres.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The statement of expenses conflicts with the scaled plan which does not illustrate a sentry box.
TOTAL COST
(01) 24 livres.
PERIMETER WALLS
QUANTITY
(01) One.
DESCRIPTION
(01) 1/2 timber with[ an exterior] board [cladding].
PRICE
(01) 24 livres.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) The scaled plan illustrates both a perimeter and interior fencing arrangement. In its design the perimeter fence incorporates several of the piquet walls of the buildings themselves - one wall each of the barracks complex, the rations storehouse and the chaplains and the surgeons lodging. The only exception are the walls of the commander's lodging which is set back from the perimeter wall.
Interior fencing arrangements isolate areas behind two buildings from the place du quartier. Sited in the commander's enclosed space is his outbuilding, while in that of the chaplain/surgeon's is nothing of a structural nature.
The perimeter wall (fences and buildings) formed a four-sided protective enclosure. In general it measured 157 pieds along the water-side, depths of 136 pieds and 104 pieds, connected at the rear by an irregular defensive line measuring 150 pieds, aligned, from one point to the other.
The scaled plan also indicates two gateways (circa 12 pieds and 4 1/2 pieds wide) in the perimeter fence. None appear in the interior fences.
TOTAL COST
(01) 557 livres 13 sols 4 deniers.
PALISADES OF PIQUETS
QUANTITY
(01) 478 running pieds of piquets.
(02)
By scaled plan:
(a) Perimeter Fencing: circa 408 running pieds.
(b) Interior Fencing: circa 57 running pieds.
DESCRIPTION
(01) Each piquet was:
(a) Round.
(b) [Set perpendicular into an] excavation trench.
(c) Back-filled.
(d) [Tied to the others by a] nailed stringers].
PRICE
(01) 557 livres 13 sols 4 deniers. (Includes materials and workmanship).
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) N/A.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
(01) Its construction date is unknown.
(02) Although no longer in use in 1757, it was deemed repairable, with walls still standing high enough to protect a soldier.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
To accommodate his periodical visits to the place, the Commissaire-Ordonnateur had caused to be built a small lodging (30 x 20 pieds). This building was of colombage construction which he deemed superior to the commonly found post constructions.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
What is known is that the oven had an interior measurement of 16 pieds long by 14 pieds wide and rose on 2 pieds wide walls to a height of 9 pieds (or, for calculation purposes, totalling 64 running pieds or 16 square toise). Along its length, within, were spotted 5 benches, of 1 pieds of height by 2 pieds of thickness. At each end of the kiln was a 3 pieds extension, (totalling 38 running pieds for purposes of calculation) forming a square place, 4 pieds high, with walls 1 pied thick, where the wood was to be stored. During firings, 80 re-usable boards were placed, to cover the oven.
According to a contemporary review, the overall measurements of the oven that produced the final total 16 square toise (or 576 square pieds: 9 x [16 + 14 + 16 + 14 + 2 + 2]) were slightly in error as it was at least 3 toise short of the expected result. However, the review did not provide a correction.
Also perplexing are the two storage areas for the wood. However, the 38 running pieds (19 + 19 pieds) does make sense if at each end of the kiln was an extension 3 pieds long by 13 pieds wide (3 + 13 + 3 = 19 running pieds) divided by two 1 pieds thick walls thus creating 3 equal compartments of 3 pied x 3 pied.
Destroyed by fire, the kiln was rebuilt at a re-located Nouvelle Briqueterie site.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
It was destroyed by fire.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Possibly integrated with or next to the first kiln, it was to be built of stone.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
In a new location, 3 buildings are shown
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
The known work on this roadway was relatively inexpensive, apparently comprised of 341 toise in length of land clearance, as well as some later repairs. If, however, it followed the pre-existing 17th century portage, which, prior to this work, was already deemed serviceable, then it may have been at least 15-18 pieds wide.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
A cabin, of poor quality, where rations were once stored, stood somewhere near the portage roadway, possible at the Bras d'Or Lake end. Other structures, on the harbour side, located apparently in the roadway itself, may too have served establishment needs.
290. April 25, 1740.
291. 1726 - Census.
292. 1720 - Census.
293. 1717 - Census.
294. 1717 - Census