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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 ON LOTS A AND B
OF BLOCK 3
BY
LINDA HOAD
JUNE, 1971
(Fortress of Louisbourg
Report H D 16)
FORWARD
[PAGE I]
by John Dunn Senior Historian:
This
report on Block 3, Lots A and B represents a departure from reports previously written on
town blocks. The report is intended, as usual, to serve as a basis for archaeological
excavation of the relevant sites, and as the primary historical work for design.
Biographical, social, and other considerations have been avoided, save for a minimum
chronology sufficient to place the evolution of the block in an historical context. The
omitted aspects of the history of the block, as it relates to the inhabitants and their
contacts and influences within and without Louisbourg, will have to be researched at some
future time, especially if there is to be an adequate interpretive programme.
The departure represented by this report is that it is the first study of a block that
utilizes the Town Inhabitants File, prepared by Mrs. Brenda Dunn and M. H.P. Thibault. The
use of the file reduced the former time of 6-8 months to research and write a report on a
block to 4 weeks. The reduction in time is somewhat accounted for by reduction of the
scope of the assigment; that is, confining it to two lots. Overwhelmingly, however, the
reduction in time is attributable to the fact that the File obviates the former
requirement to spend months reading unindexed microfilm series and the various selection
lists located in the archives. The time required to analyse documents and to write the
report remains constant: only the time to conduct the research is reduced. Used
judiciously, the File should be capable of producing reports such as this, and on a
variety of other topics.