Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site

Louisbourg Fortress, or "la Forteresse de Louisbourg", is Canada's most famous historical reconstruction, the prototype of a "Living History Museum" offering visitors an opportunity to experience at first hand the rigors of mid 18th c. life on the far from hospitable, frequently mist-shrouded, east coast of Canada. Throughout the main tourist season appropriately costumed "townspeople" - servants, soldiers, merchants, maids and fishermen - re-enact the arduous daily round of those times. Two restaurants serve specialty dishes prepared from old recipes.

The Forteresse de Louisbourg, modeled on those built by Vauban, is surrounded by a wall with towers and bastions, and encompasses more than forty buildings. The town, of which seven