Return/retour Search
Website Design and Content © by Eric Krause,
Krause House Info-Research Solutions (© 1996)
All Images © Parks Canada Except
Where Noted Otherwise
Report/Rapport © Parks Canada / Parcs Canada
---
Report Assembly/Rapport de l'assemblée © Krause
House
Info-Research Solutions
Researching the
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
THE
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF 18TH CENTURY LOUISBOURG
Microfiche
Report Series 83, By Margaret
Fortier, 1983, Fortress of Louisbourg
Part One - Louisbourg - The Land and its Utilization, Louisbourg Properties
Properties - Louisbourg Environs
167. François Le Coutre de Bourville - Jean Baptiste Mozel - Antoine Morin
LOCATION:
where 2 streams join to flow from
northwest to Barachois de Gene
DATE OF CONCESSION:
1721
DATE OF OCCUPATION:
SIZE OF PROPERTY:
1,200 toises x 1,500
toises
BORDERS OF PROPERTY:
north - De Gene
south - land not conceded
east - land not conceded
west - land not conceded
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP:
1744 - sold to Mozel
1751 - Mozel sold to Morin for 1,200 livres
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
1744 - Bourville cleared the land, built a cabane and established a menagerie.
OTHER INFORMATION:
1752
- Morin rented the property to Catherine
Dinan and her children for 5 years. He
promised to build a lodging for them as well
as barns and stables for livestock. He agreed
also to furnish livestock and poultry from
which they would share the offspring. She
was to choose a spot for a garden from which
she would get the produce. In addition, all
products (wood, grain, etc.) would be split
between owner and tenants. All hay was to be
retained for Morin who would provide the seeds
necessary for growing various kinds of grain.
Morin recieved first option to buy Dinan's
share of the property's produce.