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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

 PALISADES & FENCES: 
DIMENSIONS AND FINISHES

BY
 ERIC KRAUSE

MARCH 12, 1985

(Fortress of Louisbourg
Report H F 25 1985 01)

APPENDIX  A

1973

28. 14 September 1973 - Landscaping (Rodrigue & DeGannes property)

a) East, South and North Boundary of DeGannes Property

i) Main Post: 

- 6" x 8" diameter Ø

- placed 8 pieds apart (approximately)

ii) Piquets:

- 3 x 4" diameter Ø

- well spiked on street side of ribband

- 6 pieds (6' 4") high above ground

- top of piquets to be irregular sloped

- set loosely one against the other

iii) Main Post Braces: 

- installed 60 o (approximately) diagonally

- half lapped in main post

- small stake driven in ground holds them in place

iv) Interior Fence: 

- construction details similar to above

- 4' high

- very uneven tops

- no braces

b) East Boundary Fence of Rodrigue Property

i) like DeGannes fence

ii) south and west fence - see DeGannes

29.  3 October 1973 - Block 1: Landscaping

Engineer's piquet fence, at juncture of magazin general, to be extended and to be modified, if necessary, later, to meet garden shed.

30.  9 November 1973 Block 17: Landscaping - DeGannes & Rodrigue House

- See Sketches

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