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
width (print): 345mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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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