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the HERALD Arts and Wednesday September 1991 Louisbourg fortress is a Nova Scotia treasure The Portress of not far from Sydney Cape Breton is one of the most amazing treasures of the province of Nova Scotia The site has such an over whelmingly authentic air it is easy to forget that before i960 nothing but a few crumbling foun dation walls were left of this century town was started in as a replacement for the lost French outposts in Newfoundland and the Bay of Fundy The site was chosen because it had a fine harbor that rarely froze over in winter along this particular stretch of coast plenty of codfish populated the sea and since there would be future wars bet ween France and England this site looked as if it could easily be defended Within a few years Louisbourg developed into a very important harbor for ships from every port in France as well as from New England Acadia Quebec and the Caribbean Dried cod was what the ships took away with them and in ex change brought to everything the col onists wore and used With more and more fishing ports being set tled all around Cape Breton which the French called He became a colonial capital with governors appointed and supervised by Ver sailles Louisbourg prospered for 30 years and had by grown to about inhabitants not to mention the gan inside the Citadel which numbered about In the war between Britain and France that started in 1744 was attacked by the English and conquered in 1745 Four thousand New England soldiers landed near Louisbourg on May 11 and the Royal Navy blockaded the harbour After days of siege the fortress capitulated All the inhabitants were exiled to France and Louisbourg became a British garrison town Four years later with the truce that ended the war France regained the lie and the exiles returned For nine further years Louisbourg sparkled in he reflected glory of the court of Versailles It shone brightly like a star in the last moments of its existence In it was attacked again On June the British army got ashore at Kennington Cove and closed it on the fortress from the rear where the terrain was swampy and because of that only weakly defended by one cannon The siege lasted to late in July when the fortress capitulated That was the end of In the British government gave the orders for the razing of The town became a ghostly site visited only by impoverished peasants and fishermen in search of building material A later that came into ex istence across the water a few miles from the old site was erected from the pitiful remains of the former Slowly almost all the traces of old Louisbourg vanished By i960 only the occasional shallow cellar pit amidst the weeds was what Amnesty International holds monthly meeting ByJIMBROLGHTON Herald Special Canadians have no doubt been awestruck by the extent of changes going on within the Com munist World in the past several weeks A failed coup attempt the assertion of the democratic prin ciple the dismantling of the Unilateral Communist Party and the KGB all of these monumen tal changes bode well for the Human Rights scene in East Europes future Unfortunately not all countries in the World are going in this direction according to the 1991 annual report of Amnesty Inter national Prisoners of cons cience jailed solely for the peaceful exercise of their basic human rights were held in some countries Torture or ill treat ment of prisoners were reported in more than countries Peo ple disappeared or were held secret detention in more than 25 countries The local Amnesty Interna tional group will holds its mon thly meeting Tuesday September at St Francis School library Newcomers are most welcome and are invited to come early at 700 p for a brief orientation to the group The regular meeting will begin at pm Also look for the Amnesty International booth at the Georgetown Fall Fair INSURANCE ON YOUR INSURANCE Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Brian Rosa 148 Queen St East Brampton Ontario 1B2 4548680 Guarantee the costs of rebuilding your home even if costs exceed the amount of coveragelistedonyourpolicyTogetafree home evaluation call us today LIBERTY Canada in Liberty Mutual MUTUAL Liberty CroupDon MlUi 1991 Ideas and The Arts was left of the once so mightly fortress In that year the respective governments of Nova Scotia and Canada decided to rebuild a part of the fortress and town of as a makework pro ject and also to create a historical monument of singular beauty on that would attract scholars and tourists from all Simon CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Phone Main StreetSouth Georgetown Ontario 8770109 over the world Detailed plans of the old were discovered in Paris archives and with these as a guide the modern architects and craftsmen went to work It was a stupendous task and the outcome can not be prais ed enough We had been to in years past but we went there again on a grey misty day about a month ago From the administration building of the Na tional Historic Park visitors are taken in buses to a spot not very far from the main gate of the resurrected town Halfway to our destination the fog closed in behind us hiding behind a grey vapor the world we had come from When the bus came to a halt we had arrived in another century Emerging from the mist ahead of us seemed to be one of those drowned towns in fairy tales that come to the surface for one day only every loo years and the people the administration has put into authentic costumes and uniforms and trained to per sonify actual individuals who once lived in those walls seemed to be alive in a way that touched the heart A magician had waved his hand and for a few hours the doomed people of long ago went on living as if no assault of their town had ever taken place They played music and worked in their gardens they prepared a meal and carried their children in their arms they stood on guard and made love in their huge high fourposter beds unaware of any future perils We like them will one day be on ly a footnote to history Will our town look as fine to the 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