Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22068

    Map of Louisbourg

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 345mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Plan of the fortified town of Louisbourg on the southeast coast of what is now Cape Breton Island in the North Atlantic Ocean. A chart at the lower left includes a key to the different buildings and area within the town. Louisbourg fort was abandoned in the 1760s, just as this map was published. An effort to reconstruct the fort following historic maps and archaeological studies began in the 1960s, with funding from the Government of Canada.

    Plate 24 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).

    Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.24.’ With a chart lower left: ‘PLAN DE LA / VILLE DE LOUISBOURG / dans l’Isle Royale’.

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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