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Researching the
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
REPORT 2004 - N/A
PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS
FRONTING
RUE D'ESTRÉES AND RUE ST. LOUIS
LOUISBOURG:
BY
ERIC KRAUSE
KRAUSE HOUSE INFO-RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
DECEMBER 31, 2004
(FORTRESS
OF LOUISBOURG
REPORT: HB701K72004)
PART ONE
STREETS: RUE ST. LOUIS AND RUE D’ESTRÉES
CHRONOLOGY
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:
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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 |
RUE ST. LOUIS
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 |