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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

POST OCCUPATIONAL HISTORY OF THE OLD FRENCH TOWN OF LOUISBOURG, 1760-1930

By Wayne Foster 

Unpublished Report H D 02

Fortress of Louisbourg

December, 1965

(Note: The illustrations, are available from the Fortress of Louisbourg / 
A noter : les illustrations pourrait être consulter à la
Forteresse-de-Louisbourg.)
 

Table of Contents

 ENDNOTES

1. P.A.C. C.O. 5, Vol. 53, August 28, 1758, pp. 130-32, ff. 353- 354.

2. P.A.C. C.O.5, Vol. 51, January 22, 1759, pp. 142-147, ff. 129-133v.

3. Library of the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwick Arsenal, Book No. 10.

4. P.A.C., C.O.5, Vol. 58-1, April 23, 1760, Part 2, pp. 190- 196, ff. 7-9.

5. P.A.C., C.O.5, Vol. 59, June 26, 1760, pp. 21-23, ff. 21- 21v.

6. P.A.C. MSS., War Office 34, Vol. 18 (M.G. 14, B10), pp. 67, 68.

7. P.A.C., C.O. 218, B 1115, Vol. 6, 22 November 1763, f. 125- 27. P.A.C., C.O. 218, B 1115, Vol. 6, March 6, 1764, f. 140.

8. P.A.C., N.S.A. 72, C.O.217, 22 November 1763, pp. 104-9.

9. P.A.C., N.S. A72, C.O. 217, Vol. 43, October 25, 1763, pp. 74-9, ff. 150-1.

10. P.A.C., C.O. 218, B 1115, Vol. 6, May 15, 1764, ff. 208-09.

11. John Bartlett Brebner, The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia, A Marginal colony during the Revolutionary Years. Columbia University Press, 1937, pp. 108-09.

12. P.A.C., C.O. 5, LXXXV, 33 (1766); N.S. A77, 165, N.S. A83, 109; Harvey, Holland's Survey, 95.

13. P.A.C., C.O. 217, B1029, Vol. 22, 16 June 1766, ff. 45-56.

14. Halifax Crown Grant Book, Book 6, p. 593.

15. P.A.C., C.O. 217, B1029, Vol. 22, 16 June 1766, ff. 45-46.

16. P.A.C., N.S. B Series, Vol. 14, Minutes of Council, 12 November 1766, pp. 76-79.

17. N.S.P.A., Book C, Minutes of Council, p. 550, 600.

18. N.S.P.A., Book C, Minutes of Council, p. 600.

19. P.A.C., C.O. 217, (N.S.) A79, 28 May 1767, pp. 156-62.

20. P.A.C. C.O. 217, B 1029, Vol. 21, 2 September 1766, ff. 306-07.

21. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 44 (N.S.) A79, 1 January 1767, p. 168, ff. 118-21.

22. Richard Brown, The Coal Fields and Coal Trade of the Island of Cape Breton. (London: Low ... and Searle, 1871), p. 55.

23. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, "Narrative of American Voyages and Travels of Captain William Owen, R.N., and the Settlement of the Island of Campobello on the Bay of Fundy, 1766-1771, Vol. 35, No. 2, p. 91.

24. Letters to Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies (Halifax - printed by Richard Nugent, 1842, p. 54.

25. Samuel Holland, A Description of the Island of Cape Breton and Its Dependencies. N.S. P.A. Vol. 332 (Secretary of State's Letters - 1785-1789), Vol. 222, p. 12 et seq.

26. Ibid, Vol. 332, No. 6, n.p.

27. P.A.C., C.O. 217, N.S. A82, 28 June 1768.

28. P.A.C., C.O. 217, N.S., 16 June 1766.

29. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 45, N.S. A80, 16 December 1767, ff. 21-23, pp. 169,172.

30. Bruce, Fergusson, Uniacke's Sketches of Cape Breton and Other papers Relating to Cape Breton Island. (Halifax: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1958), p. 25.

31. Holland, op. cit.

32. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 25, 26 September 1768, pp. 140-154, ff. 135-148.

33. John Milne, Gow, Cape Breton Illustrated ... (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1893), p. 338.

34. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 25, N.S. A83, 12 September, p. 89, 247; C.O. 217, Vol. 45.

35. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 21, B1029, 6 May 1756, ff. 258-258v.

36. Bruce Fergusson, op. cit, p. 28.

37. Holland, op. cit, Vol. 332 or 222.

38. P.A.C., C.O. 217, 22 (N.S.) A80, 1 January 1767, p. 168, ff. 118-121.

39. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 25, 26 September 1768.

40. Louisbourg Map Collection, M.A.C. 145 with commentary from Louisbourg Research Map Catalogue.

41. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, op. cit, p. 89.

42. Louisbourg Map Collection, M.A.C. 180, A Plan of Louisbourg surveyed and drawn for his Excellency the Honourable Major General Thomas Gage - Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's forces in America/Cns. George Sproule of the 59th Regiment.

43. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 25, 26 September 1768, pp. 140-154, pp. 135-148.

44. P.A.C., C.O. 217, No. 45, 12 October 1768, No. 23, ff. 227- 28, B1037.

45. Nova Scotia B Series, Vol. 15, 2 April 1770, Minutes of Council, pp. 24-28.

46. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, doc. # 128, p. 37, # 76. Extract from Public Letter Book of the Lieutenant Governor from 1760 to 1784, p. 157.

47. N.S.P.A. Vol. 339, Doc. 128, p. 20v., # 38. Extract from Commission Book of Nova Scotia 1768-1781, Book F, p. 169.

48. P.A.C., N.S.B. Series # 15, Minutes of Council, November 7, 1774, pp. 261-262.

49. P.A.C. Colonial Office Records, N.S., A, Vol. 90 (M.G. 11), Enclosure in a letter of Legge to Dartmouth, August 20, 1774. Transcript of Col. Cor. N.S., Vol. 8, p. 208.

50. P.A.C., N.S., B Series, #15, Minutes of Council, 4 May 1770, pp. 31-32.

51. P.A.C., Colonial Office Records, N.S., A, Vol. 90 (M.G. 11), Enclosure in a letter of Legge to Dartmouth, August 20, 1774. Transcript of Col. Cor. N.S., Vol. 8, p. 208.

52. Fergusson, op.cit, p. 28.

53. P.A.C. Carleton Papers (transcript), American Revolution, M.G. 23, Vol. 29 (Royal Institution), Vol. 5 (P.A.C.), #7, p. 93.

54. P.A.C., Carleton Papers (transcript), American Revolution, M.G. 23, Vol. 29 (Royal Institution), Vol. 5 (P.A.C.), # 20.

55. N.S.P.A., Vol. 32, # 4, Whitehall Despatches, February 24, 1775.

56. Mrs. Charles Archibald, "Early Scottish settlers in Cape Breton", Historical Society Proceedings, Vol. 18. Halifax: MacNab & Son, 1914, p. 72. 

57. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 25, 26 September 1768, pp. 140-154, ff. 135-148. M.A.C. 146.

58. P.A.C., C.O. Records, N.S. A, Vol. 88 (M.G. 21), Dartmouth Papers, 8 September 1772. See also Report on Canadian Archives (1894), page 310; P.A.C., Preliminary inventory, MG23A I, Series I, Original manuscripts, Vol. X, # 2475.

59. P.A.C., Dartmouth Original Mss., Vol. 2, Pt. 1, # 995, 11 July 1774. See also P.A.C., Preliminary Inventory, MG23.

60. P.A.C., C.O. Records, N.S. A, Vol. 91, (M.G. 21), Enclosure in a letter of 12 November 1774 from Legge to Dartmouth, dated October 17, 1774. See also Report of the Canadian Archives (1894), page 322: Col. Cor N.S., Vol. 9, pp. 29, 35.

61. P.A.C., Dartmouth Original Papers, N.S., Vol. 1, part 2, No. 1118, 6 May 1775. See also P.A.C., Preliminary Inventory, M.G. 23, A(1), Series I, Original manuscripts: Vol. I, No. 1102.

62. John Bartlett, Brebner, The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia. A Marginal Colony during the Revolutionary Years (New York: Columbia U.P., 1937), p. 112.

63. Richard Brown, A History of the Island of Cape Breton ... (London: S. Low, son, and Marston, 1869), p. 378.

64. Fergusson, op. cit, p. 25.

65. D.C. Harvey (comp.), Holland's Description of Cape Breton Island and Other Documents. (Halifax: P.A. of N.S. publication, No. 2, 1935), p. 13.

66. P.A.C., Dartmouth Original Papers (N.S.), Vol. 1, part 2, No. 1118, 6 May 1775.

67. Halifax Crown Lands Office, Book 8, p. 229.

68. Harvey, op. cit, p. 14.

69. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. #128, p. 10, #24.

70. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. #128, p. 40, #84.

71. Fergusson, op.cit, p. 25.

72. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. #128, p. 7, #12, Extracts from Book D, p. 40.

73. Halifax Crown Grant Office, Book 10, p. 24.

74. Harvey, op.cit, p. 31.

75. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. #128, p. 40 ½, #89, Extracts from 1.256 of Public Letter Book of the Lieut.-Governor.

76. Angus Anthony Johnson, A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nova Scotia (Antigonish, N.S.: St. Francis Xavier Press, 1960), p. 451.

77. D.J. Rankin, "Lawrence Kavanagh", Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report, 1940/41, p. 56.

78. P.A.C., C.O. 217, Vol. 45, N.S., A 80, 16 December 1767, ff. 21-23, pp. 169-172.

79. Rankin, op. cit, pp. 55.

80. Halifax Crown Lands Office, Book 10, p. 24.

81. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. #128, p. 36v., #75 (Extracts from p. 156 of the Lieut-Governor's Public Letter Book - 1760-1784).

82. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. 128, p. 8v., #19, Extracts from Book D, p. 208.

83. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. 128, p. 9, #20 [Extracts from Book D, p. 109].

84. Rankin, op. cit, p. 55. Same information in Nova Scotia B Series, #15, Minutes of Council, Nov. 7, 1774, pp. 261-262.

85. A.A. Johnston, op. cit, p. 451.

86. P.A.C., Dartmouth Original Papers, Nova Scotia Vol. 1, pt. 2, #1118, 6 May 1775.

87. N.S.P.A., Vol. 32, Doc. 27, Whitehall, 24 February 1775, Dartmouth to Legge.

88. A.A. Johnston, op. cit, p. 45.

89. "The Louisbourg Monument". A Souvenir Number of the Sydney Advocate June 18, "Reminiscences of Old Louisbourg". 

90. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. 128, p. 40, #84.

91. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, Doc. 128, p. 40, #85. 

92. Sydney Advocate, op. cit, no. p.

93. Samuel Holland, op. cit., Vol. 332, n.p. or 222 p. 12 et seq.

94. C.O. 217, Vol. 104, Petition of Cuyler to H.M., 21 February 1784, p. 5.

95. Marion Gilroy, "The Partition of Nova Scotia, 1784": The Canadian Historical Review, December 1933, Vol. XIV, pp. 379-91.

96. Mrs. Ella Hunt Cameron, "Imperial Policy in Cape Breton, 1784-1795". Collections of the N.S. Historical Society, Vol. 31. (Halifax: Halcraft Printing Ltd., 1957), p. 39 [Her reference: C.O., Records of N.S.A. Series, Vol. n0.105, Minutes of Council, St. James, 10 May 1784].

97. P.A.H.S., Vol. 33, doc. 8, Lord Sydney to J. Parr, 7 July 1784.

98. Cameron, op. cit., p. 41 [Her reference: P.A.C.N.S.E., Vol. 4, 1773-1787, M-584].

99. Sydney McConnell Library C.O. 218 (transcript of No. 10, p. 67), p. 90 of this transcript.

100. Sydney McConnell Library, transcript of C.O. 218, p. 75 [p. 92 of transcript].

101. N.S.P.A., Vol. 318, Minutes of Council on the Island of Cape Breton from July 1785 to 16th July 1787, 14 February 1786, p. 127.

102. George C. Patterson, History of Victoria County (Baddeck: 1885), p. 67.

103. "Address given by His Honor Judge McCarthur, to the Catholic Women's League of Sydney, Feb. 16, 1936". Copy at Sydney Library.

104. Ibid, p. 91.

105. Lieutenant W. Booth, "Journal on a Tour with Genl. Campbell, in July & August 1785". Nova Scotia Archives Reports 1931-40 (Halifax: King's Printer), p. 46 of Dec. 31, 1933. 

106. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book A, p. 46.

107. Halifax Crown Lands Office, Cape Breton Port folio, #33.

108. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Register B, p. 300.

109. The Rev. Ranna Cossit, 1744-1815 ... "Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society", V. 5, #3, September 1963, no.p. 

110. William Smith, A Caveat against Emigration to America with the State of the Island of Cape Breton, from the year 1784 to the present year ... (London: E. Lloyd, 1805), p. 40 ff.

111. N.S.P.A., Vol. 332, Doc. 7, T. Hurd, 7 September 1787.

112. P.A.N.S., Vol. 318, Minutes of Council, 2 March 1786.

113. Cameron, op. cit., p. 42.

114. P.A.N.S., Vol. 332, Doc. 20, 19 October 1787.

115. S. Hollingsworth, The Present State of Nova Scotia ... and the British Isles on the Coast of North America, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: William Creeck, 1787), p. 190.

116. Cameron, op. cit., pp. 58-60.

117. William Smith, op. cit., p. 55.

118. William Smith, op. cit., p. 92.

119. Sydney Library, copy of C.O., 217, 107, p. 5, p. 103 of this copy.

120. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Reg. Book B, p. 171.

121. Ibid, p. 211.

122. Dept. of Justice Abstract, Nat. Parks File # FLO.2, #1, 28 April 1921, pp. 2, 112.

123. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book B, p. 175.

124. Ibid, Book B, p. 176.

125. Ibid, Book B, p. 191.

126. Ibid, Book B, p. 179.

127. Ibid, Book B, p. 180. 

128. Ella Hunt Cameron, A Study of Imperial Policy in Cape Breton (1784-1795). M.A. Thesis, Acadia University, 1952, pp. 139 et seq.

129. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book B, p. 285.

130. P.A.N.S., Vol. 326, Cape Breton Miscan, Papers 1784-1820, #42.

131. Johnston, op. cit., pp. 166-168.

132. Louisbourg Map Collection, M.A.C. 154.

133. Women's Institute (Lbg.), op. cit., p. 14.

134. Johnston, op. cit, p. 182.

135. P.A.N.S., Vol. 321, 15 January 1801, p. 144.

136. P.A.C., Inglis Papers (transcript), Cape Breton, 1805 [M.G. 23, Series (1), Vol. 6].

137. N.S.P.A., S.P.G.F.P., Reel 23, Box 1, 3C, #287.

138. P.A.N.S., Calender of Cape Breton Land Papers 1787-1818, No. 43, p. 5 and P.A.N.S., Vol. 321, p. 170.

139. N.S.P.A., Cape Breton Land Papers, #488.

140. N.S.P.A., Calendar of Cape Breton Land Papers 1787-1818, #639, p. 47.

141. Cameron, op. cit (thesis), p. 142. Her reference: (used as primary source): Susan Morse, "Crown Lands in Nova Scotia, 1839-1851" (unfinished article in PANS), p. 1.

142. Brown, op. cit, p. 431.

143. P.A.N.S., Vol. 327, Cape Breton Manuscript Document 1810- 1816, Doc. 143. Document to be found in Appendix.

144. P.A.N.S., Vol. 327, Cape Breton Papers 1784-1820, Doc. #25.

145. Calendar of Cape Breton Land Papers, op. cit., #'s 775, 1457, 1458.

146. J.G. Bourinot, "Notes of a Ramble Through Cape Breton", The New Dominion Monthly, Vol. 2 (Montreal: John Dougall & Son, May 1868), p. 79.

147. P.A.N.S., Vol. 327, Cape Breton manuscript, 1810-16, Doc. 174.

148. N.S.P.A., Cape Breton Land Papers, 1816, #1328.

149. Ibid., Doc. #'s 1814, 2110, 2309, 2396, 2550; N.S.P.A., Vol. 325, 5 November 1818, Minutes of Council, p. 8 of Cape Breton.

150. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book D, p. 330.

151. N.S.P.A., Cape Breton Land Papers, Doc. #1651.

152. Institute, op. cit., pp. 14-15.

153. N.S.P.A., Papers of the Island of Cape Breton, Vol. 33, No. 87½.

154. Harvey, op. cit., p. 61.

155. A.A. Johnston, op. cit., p. 291.

156. A.A. Johnston, op. cit., pp. 282, 283. His reference: Monseigneur Joseph-Octave Plessis, Evêque de Québec, Journal des Visites Pastorales de 1815 et 1816 publié par Mgr. Henri Têu, Québec, 1903.

157. Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Stanley, H.M., Secretary of State for the Colonies and Opinion ... [on] the Proposed Repeal of the Union existing between the Island of Cape Breton and Nova Scotia ... (Halifax: Richard Nugent (ptr.), 1842, p. 6.

158. A.A. Johnston, op. cit., p. 489.

159. Halifax Crown Lands Office, Cape Breton Portfolio, #32.

160. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., pp. 47-48.

161. Dept. of Justice abstract on Establishment of Fort Louisbourg, National Parks File # FLO. 2, # 1, p. 2.

162. Ibid., p. 30.

163. Thomas C. Haliburton, An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia, Vol. V (Halifax: Joseph Howe, 1829), pp. 216-18. 

164. N.S.P.A., Vol. 336, #47, Observations on the Crown Lands in Cape Breton.

165. Canada. General commission of enquiry for crown lands and emigration ... Minutes of evidence taken under the direction of a General Commission of enquiry for crown lands and emigration .... (Québec: J.C. Fisher & W. Komble, 1839), p. 15.

166. P.A.N.S., Vol. 336, #43, Sir R.D. George's memoranda on the Land Granting System.

167. P.A.N.S., Vol. 335, #102, Crawley to Sir Rupert D. George, June 19th, 1827.

168. N.S.P.A., Vol. 335, Crawley to Rupert D. George, 5 November 1827.

169. N.S.P.A., Vol. 340, Hill to Crawley, 14 October 1830.

170. N.S.P.A., Vol. 337, #5, Charles Ward to W. Hill, 30 January 1830.

171. Women's Institute, op. cit., p. 15.

172. Dept. of Justice's Abstract, op. cit., p. 3.

173. Ibid., p. 3.

174. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book K, p. 450.

175. Ibid., Book T, p. 277.

176. Ibid., Book N, p. 5.

177. Ibid., Book O, p. 222.

178. John McGregor. British America, 2 Vols. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1832), p. 389.

179. Joseph Bouchette. The British Dominions in North America, 2 Vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1832, Vol. II, p. 78.

180. N.S.P.A., Vol. 338, #131.

181. N.S.P.A., S.P.G.F.P., Reel 23, Box 1, 3C; C Series, #1791/43

182. N.S.P.A., Ibid., #287.

183. N.S.P.A., S.G.F.P., Reel 10, Rev. W.G. Porter.

184. Abraham Gesner, The Industrial Resources of Nova Scotia (Halifax, n.p. 1849), p. 302.

185. Montgomery Martin, The British Colonies (London & New York: J.& F. Tallis [1850], p. 210.

186. Act of the Legislature of N.S. passed the 28th March 1850, Chapter 41 of the Acts of 1850.

187. N.S.P.A., Bundle of papers labelled Crown Lands-Cape Breton Petitions, etc.-1850-1865, Lbg. petitioners to John Harvey, 17 March 1852.

188. The Cape Breton News, Vol. III, #17, 22 December 1852 letter to the editor.

189. S.J. Stratrord, "Louisbourg, Cape Breton", The Canadian Journal, 1852-53, p. 126.

190. Sydney Library, Reel marked The Cape Breton News [September 26, 1853-August 10, 1855], Vol. II (??), 15 October 1853, Saturday, #7.

191. N.S.P.A., S.G.F.P., Reel 29, Rev. R.J. Uniake 1839-57, 6 October 1853.

192. Louisbourg Map Collection, M.A.C. 155.

193. Fredrick S. Cozzens, Acadia or a Month with the Blue Noses. (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859), p. 103ff.

194. Rev. D. Honeyman, "Louisbourg - Past and Present", The Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Science. Proceedings and Transactions for 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886. Vol. III (Halifax: William Gossip, 1886), p. 205.

195. Abraham Gesner, Canadian Journal, New Series, 1862, Vol. 7.

196. Richard John Uniacke, Sketches of Cape Breton and other papers relating to Cape Breton Island, Ed. with introduction and notes by C. Bruce Fergusson (Halifax: [P.A.N.S.], 1958), p. 48.

197. E. Frame, Descriptive Sketches of Nova Scotia ... (Halifax: MacKinlay, 1864), pp. 137-38.

198. N.S.P.A., Church's Plans of Town and Villages, Louisbourg, 1864.

199. John MacMullan, The history of Canada from its First Discovery to the Present Time, 2nd ed. (Brockville: McMullen & Co., 1868), p. 138.

200. J.G. Bourinot, "Notes on a Ramble through Cape Breton", The New Dominion Monthly, Vol. 2, #2 (Montreal: John Dougall & Son, May, 1868), p. 89.

201. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., pp. 3-4.

202. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book T, p. 277.

203. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book T, p. 277.

204. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 4.

205. Halifax Crown Grants Office, Record Book #1, p. 375.

206. Halifax Crown Grants Office, Record Book #1, p. 375.

207. Ibid., Plan #5065.

208. Dept. of Justice Abstract, op. cit., pp. 5, 23.

209. Gordon H. Haliburton, A History of Railways in Nova Scotia (M.A. Thesis, May 1955). p. 451.

210. Women's Institute, op. cit., p. 17.

211. Gordon H. Haliburton, A History of Railways in Nova Scotia, (M.A. Thesis, May 1955), p. 451.

212. F.N. Gisbourne, Map of Cape Breton, N.S., 1853. (Dalhousie University Library).

213. Gordon Haliburton, op. cit., p. 453.

214. Sydney Library, MacLennan Collection, handwritten notes of H.C. Burchell, n.d., p. 40.

215. Dufferin, Marchioness of & Ava., My Canadian Journal, 1872-8 (London: John Murray, 1890), p. 94.

216. Lovell's Gazetteer of British North America (Montreal: John Lovell, 1874), p. 177.

217. "Horde of Souvenirs stored in Farmhouse at Old Louisbourg Fort", Halifax Star, 4 September 1935.

218. Pascal Poirier, "Louisbourg en 1902", Royal Society of Canada Proceedings and Transactions, Vol. viii, Section 1, May meeting, 1902, pp. 115 ff.

219. John B. Calkin, History and Geography of Nova Scotia (Halifax: A.W. MacKinlay, 1877), p. 92, #76.

220. P.A.N.S., Visit of Peter Lynch, Q.C., to Louisbourg on or about September 20, 1880, unpublished report to the Nova Scotia Historical Society, original manuscript.

221. Hezekiah Butterworth, Zigzag Journey in Acadia and New France ... (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1885), pp. 205-06.

222. Justin Winsor (ed), Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., c.1887), pp. 418 and 447.

223. W.H. Withrow, Our Own Country Canada... (Toronto: William Briggs, 1889), pp. 36-39.

224. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book EE, p. 49.

225. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 44.

226. Ibid., pp. 23-24.

227. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book LL, p. 52.

228. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book XX, 5 May 1880.

229. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 67.

230. Sydney Court House, Will Book 1, p. 39, 19 February 1902.

231. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book PP, p. 437.

232. Dept. of Justice, op. cit., p. 41.

233. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 116.

234. Ibid., p. 112.

235. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book PP, p. 423.

236. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book PP, p. 439.

237. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., pp. 93, 110.

238. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book PP, p. 423.

239. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 110.

240. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book RR, p. 457 et seq.

241. Ibid., p. 457 et seq.

242. Ibid., p. 457.

243. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book RR, p. 336.

244. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book UU, p. 512.

245. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book UU, p. 413.

246. Ibid., Book XX, p. 140 et seq.

247. Ibid., Book XX, p. 140 et seq.

248. Ibid., Book XX, p. 143.

249. Ibid., Book XX, p. 140.

250. Ibid., Book ZZ, p. 58.

251. Dept. of Justice Abstract, op. cit., p. 67.

252. Charles G.D. Roberts, The Canadian Guide Book (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1891), pp. 213, 214.

253. Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, 2nd of 3 Vols., p. 258 (Toronto: George N. Morang & Co., 1900).

254. Francis Adams Drake, The Taking of Louisbourg, 1745 (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1891), pp. 17, 19.

255. John Milne Gow, Cape Breton Illustrated ... (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1893), pp. 146-152.

256. Report on the Committee of the Society of Colonial Wars on the Louisbourg memorial (N.Y. Society of Colonial Wars, 1896), Appendix, p. VII.

257. Louisbourg Map Collection, M.A.C #155.

258. Samuel Edward Dawson, North America: Canada & Newfoundland, Vol. l (London: Edward Stanford, 1897), pp. 170, 172.

259. Margaret Warner Morley, Down North and Up Along (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c.1900), p. 160.

260. A.G. Bradley, The Fight with France for North America, 2nd ed. (Westminster: Archibald Costable & Co. Ltd., 1902), p. 230.

261. Halifax Crown Grants Office, Fort Louisbourg Maps, #B-5-10.

262. W.L. Grant, "Cape Breton, Past and Present", Canadian Magazine, September 1901, p. 439.

263. Pascal Poirier, "Historic Sites of Acadia", Acadiensis, Vol. 2, October 1902.

264. Pascal Poirier, "Louisbourg en 1902", Royal Society of Canada. Proceedings and Transactions, Vol. VIII, Section 1, pp. 115ff.

265. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 56, p. 531.

266. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 60, pp. 740, 741.

267. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 64, p. 795.

268. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 66, pp. 271-273.

269. Ibid., Book 99, p. 767.

270. Ibid., Book 80, p. 347.

271. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 9 (Will Book h, p. 65).

272. Ibid., p. 27.

273. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Grant Book F, p. 9.

274. Dept. of Justice Abstract, op. cit., pp. 27, 28.

275. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 97, p. 355.

276. Ibid., Book 99, p. 160, #2122.

277. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 85, #29.

278. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 99, p. 210.

279. Ibid., Book 99, p. 211.

280. Ibid., Book 99, p. 208.

281. Ibid., Book 99, p. 213.

282. Ibid., Book 99, p. 208.

283. Sydney McLennan Collection, newspaper clipping entitled "Victoria's Son at the Ruins of Louisburg ..."

284. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 99, p. 206.

285. Ibid., Book 99, p. 205.

286. Ibid, Book 97, p. 768.

287. Ibid, Book 99, p. 207.

288. Ibid, Book 99, p. 212.

289. Ibid, Book 99, p. 364.

290. Ibid, Book 99, p. 345.

291. Ibid, Book 99, p. 344.

292. Ibid, Book 105, p. 30, #427.

293. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 105, p. 28, #426.

294. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 105, p. 26, #425.

295. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., pp. 11, 12.

296. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 99, p. 731.

297. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 99, p. 742, #382.

298. Ibid, Grant Book F, p. 101, #19837.

299. Charles W. Vernon, Cape Breton. Canada at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (Toronto: Nation Pub., 1903), p. 282.

300. Robert McLeod, Markland or Nova Scotia: Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties, n. place; Markland Publishing Company, 1903.

301. C. Ochiltree MacDonald, The Last Siege of Louisbourg (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1908?], p. 137.

302. Ibid, pp. 137-139.

303. J.S. McLennan, "A Notable Ruin: Louisbourg". A paper read before the Nova Scotia Historical Society, 10 November 1908, Published by the Society, 1909.

304. Frank Basil Tracy, The Tercentenary History of Canada (Toronto: P.F. Collier & Son, c.1908), p. 472.

305. Louis Bancroft Runk, "Fort Louisburg: Its Two Sieges and Site To-day". Address before the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (printed by Order of the Society, March 1911), pp. 29-32.

306. Beckles Wilson, "Louisbourg Tomorrow", The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XLII, February 1914, #4, pp. 352 et seq.

307. Toronto Globe, 27 July 1919, p. 6.

308. Sydney Record, 25 April 1906, n.p.

309. Beckles Wilson, Nova Scotia. The Province that Has Been Passed By (London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1911), pp. 312 et seq.

310. N.S.P.A. In a file of materials on Louisbourg, being a letter by Kennelly to James Austin, Dy. Commissioner of Crown Lands.

311. Ottawa Government files on Louisbourg; a letter of 30 July 1924, W. Crowe to J.B. Harkin. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 234, p. 392.

312. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Grant Book F, p. 130, #19966.

313. Ibid, Grant Book F, p. 127, #19961.

314. Ibid, Grant Book F, p. 121.

315. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 49 [their reference: Will Book I, p. 232.

316. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 110, p. 560.

317. Ibid, Book III, p. 718, #519.

318. Ibid, Book 116, p. 340, #955.

319. Ibid, Book 114, p. 223.

320. Ibid, Book 125, p. 14, #2752.

321. Ibid, Book 125, p. 40, #2751.

322. Ibid, Book 123, p. 28, #2575.

323. Ibid, Book 125, p. 201.

324. Ibid, Book 128, p. 483, #5209.

325. Ibid, Book 125, p. 201, #3169.

326. Ibid, Book 121, p. 310, #3168.

327. Ibid, Book 132, p. 781, #1454.

328. Ibid, Book 134, p. 202.

329. Ibid, Book 132, p. 629.

330. Ibid, Book 201, p. 574, #942.

331. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 85 [Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 137, p. 476].

332. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 139, p. 710, #1609.

333. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit, p. 46.

334. Ibid., p. 77.

335. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 145, p. 198, #1248.

336. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 146, p. 391, #1903.

337. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., pp. 85, 118.

338. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 192, p. 384.

339. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 32.

340. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit., p. 32.

341. Public Archives Records Centre, Canadian National Parks, FLO. 2, #2, May 1916-August 1921, page 3 of report.

342. Ibid., "Establishment, Fort Louisburg", FLO. 2, #4, April-May 1923.

343. Ibid. A report on property obtained from C.B. Railway Co. at Louisburg (Old Town), FLO. 2, #3, 31 August-April 1923, n.p.

344. Ibid. Levatte to Harkin, 20 March 1923, FLO. 2, #3, Aug. 1921-April 1923.

345. Ibid., Town Planning Advisor to Harkin, 11 June 1923, FLO. 2, #4, April-May 1923, page 2 of report.

346. Clarence J. Webster, "Rise and Fall of Louisbourg". Report of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, 17-18 May 1926 (Ottawa: Dept. of Public Archives), p. 105.

347. Sydney Library, McLennan Correspondence Collection, W. Crowe to J.S. McLennan, 3 December 1928.

348. Ibid., Memorandum accompanying report on Louisbourg development, F.F. Williamson, Deputy Comm., 23 January 1931.

349. Dept. of Justice abstract, op. cit, p. 41.

350. Ibid., p. 40.

351. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 250, p. 331, #2862.

352. Ibid., Book 276, p. 261, #2198.

353. Ibid., Book 285, p. 475, #1138.

354. Ibid., Book 254, pp. 115-116.

355. Sydney Library, McLennan Correspondence file, W. Crowe to Commissioner of Canadian National Parks, Ottawa, n.d.

356. Louisbourg (Old Town) map, plan accompanying railway lease to Dept. of the Interior, 3 May 1923, Plan #11638-5.

357. Sydney Library, McLennan file on Kennelly and lands bequeathed to Louisbourg Memorial Association Trustees.

358. Ibid., memo of 23 January 1931 accompanying a report of Louisbourg development to H.H. Williamson.

359. Sydney Registry of Deeds, Book 295, p. 166, #44.

360. Ibid., Book 314, p. 13, #357.

361. Ibid., Book 307, p. 661, #1447.

362. Ibid., Book 307, p. 672, #1452.

363. Ibid., Book 307, p. 670, #1450.

364. Ibid., Book 307, p. 670, #1450.

365. Ibid., Book 307, p. 664, #1448.

366. Ibid., Book 307, p. 673.

367. Ibid., Book 310, p. 151, #353.

368. Ibid., Book 314, p. 4, #353.

369. Ibid., Book 314, p. 5, #354.

370. Ibid., Book 314, p. 10, #355.

371. Ibid., Book 310, p. 646, #2279.

372. Ibid., Book 303, p. 123, #2003.

373. Ibid., Book 303, #2204.

374. Ibid., Book 308, p. 303, no. 303(?).

375. Ibid., Book 314, p. 19, #367.

376. Ibid., Book 314, p. 19, #367.

377. Ibid., Book 314, p. 16, #366.

378. Royal Canadian Air Force photographs of Louisbourg, #'s A3473-94, A3474-94 to 97.

379. Sydney Library, McLennan collection, Letter from D.C. Harvey to F.H.H. Williamson, 28 July 1937.