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The Lost World of Cape Breton Island
J.M., J.R. Bourgeois
16 episodes
6 days ago
The forgotten stories of early 18th century Cape Breton Island. It’s the aim of this project to reconstruct the lives of people long gone, walk roads that no longer exist, and retell events from Cape Breton’s history through the documentation left behind by those who saw it for themselves.
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The forgotten stories of early 18th century Cape Breton Island. It’s the aim of this project to reconstruct the lives of people long gone, walk roads that no longer exist, and retell events from Cape Breton’s history through the documentation left behind by those who saw it for themselves.
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01 - John Montresor’s Overland Trek From Louisbourg to the Bras d’Or Lakes, 1759
The Lost World of Cape Breton Island
14 minutes 55 seconds
3 years ago
01 - John Montresor’s Overland Trek From Louisbourg to the Bras d’Or Lakes, 1759

In our first episode, we introduce the Lost World of Cape Breton project. We also follow John Montresor, an engineer in the British army, overland from Louisbourg to the shores of the Bras d’Or Lakes as he embarks on an “inland scout” in the months following the fall of Cape Breton Island to the British.Read the Montresor Journals - https://archive.org/details/montresorjourna00montgoog/page/n4/mode/2upSHOW NOTES: MUSICAL CREDITS: -- Les Habitants - En Roulant La Bouteille SOURCES: 1. "The Montresor Journals," John Montresor, p. 188 - 192 2. Sauriol, M (2004). Voyage en hyver et sur les glaces de Chédiäque à Québec. Cap-aux-Diamants, (78), 43-43 3. The Cultural Landscape of 18th Century Louisbourg – Margaret Fortier. 1983 4. "Carte des environs de Louisbourg avec la rivière, partie du grand lac et le chemin de Myré" - Pierre-Jérôme Boucher, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

The Lost World of Cape Breton Island
The forgotten stories of early 18th century Cape Breton Island. It’s the aim of this project to reconstruct the lives of people long gone, walk roads that no longer exist, and retell events from Cape Breton’s history through the documentation left behind by those who saw it for themselves.