Forteresse de Louisbourg

Period costumes from the Forteress de Louisbourg in Île Royale, Nouvelle-Ecosse, or Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. These costumes are French and probably modeled after early eighteenth-century designs, since Louisbourg was captured twice by the English (1745, 1758) and was dismantled in 1760.

Below: a merchant, a fisherman, a lady, and a soldier of the Companie Franche de la Marine.