{"id":1611,"date":"2016-07-30T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T23:27:03","slug":"fortress-of-louisbourg-national-historic-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/07\/30\/fortress-of-louisbourg-national-historic-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortress of Louisbourg Historic Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

A visit to the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site in Cape Breton is like taking a step back in history to a time when the French and English crowns fought for control of the New World, and all of Nova Scotia was a battleground.<\/h4>\n
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The Fortress is the largest historical reconstruction in North America and offers an incredible window to all aspects of life as lived by some of our first European settlers.<\/h4>\n
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The Fortress of Louisbourg might have been lost to history had it not been designated a National Historic Site and partially reconstructed in the 1960s.<\/h4>\n
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It has become the largest reconstructed 18th-century French fortified town in North America, with archaeologists, and engineers and historians working together to recreate the town as it was in the 1740s.era.<\/h4>\n
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A visit to the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site in Cape Breton is like taking a step back in history to a time when the French and English crowns fought for control of the New World, and all of Nova Scotia was a battleground.   The Fortress is the largest historical reconstruction in North … Continue reading “Fortress of Louisbourg Historic Site”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ve9sc.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}