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22-519: Louisbourg Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia . The current tower is the fourth in a series of lighthouses that have been built on the site, the earliest was the first lighthouse in Canada . Construction began on the lighthouse in 1730 to assist navigation to Fortress of Louisbourg . It was completed in 1734. A fire in 1736 destroyed the lantern but the stone tower

44-500: A change of -0.4% from its 2016 population of 98,722 . With a land area of 2,457.21 km (948.73 sq mi), it had a population density of 40.0/km (103.6/sq mi) in 2021. Cape Breton County had several incorporated municipalities within its boundaries: In the early 1990s the provincial government began to examine duplication of municipal services in Nova Scotia. One of the recommendations arising from this study

66-424: A change of -5.9% from its 2016 population of 877. With a land area of 3.3 km (1.3 sq mi), it had a population density of 250.0/km (647.5/sq mi) in 2021. Louisbourg's economy is dominated by the seasonal tourism industry and seafood processing. The depletion of groundfish stocks has negatively affected local fish processing operations in recent decades. In the 1960s, Parks Canada completed

88-510: A partial reconstruction of the Fortress of Louisbourg . Today this National Historic Site of Canada is the town's dominant economic engine, employing many residents and attracting thousands of tourists every year. The fortress holds large scale historical reenactments every few years to mark important historical events and attract visitors to the town. The most recent in July 2008, commemorated

110-555: A re-enactment scene from the fortress and features the lighthouse in several shots. 45°55′11.5″N 59°58′22.1″W  /  45.919861°N 59.972806°W  / 45.919861; -59.972806 Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia From 1879 to 1995, the area of the county excluded from towns and cities was incorporated as the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton to provide local government services. Since 1995

132-524: Is probably the oldest surviving European name to have been used to designate part of North America. By proclamation of October 17, 1763 after termination of the Seven Years' War , Cape Breton Island was formally annexed to Nova Scotia. For a time thereafter Cape Breton Island was part of Halifax County . On December 10, 1765, Cape Breton Island was set apart as a separate county under the name Cape Breton County . From 1784 to 1820, Cape Breton Island

154-465: The Fortress of Louisbourg in 1713 and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, naming it in honour of Louis XIV . They did so by transplanting settlers there from the evacuated Terre-Neuve colony. The harbour had been used by European mariners since at least the 1590s, when it was known as English Port and Havre à l'Anglois, the French settlement that dated from 1713. The settlement

176-648: The Sydney and Louisburg Railway adopted this spelling. On 6 April 1966, the Nova Scotia House of Assembly passed "An Act to Change the Name of the Town of Louisburg" which resulted in the town changing its official name to the original French spelling Louisbourg . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Louisbourg had a population of 825 living in 377 of its 420 total private dwellings,

198-475: The 250th anniversary of the first British siege victory over French forces in July 1758. The town's more recent history is preserved at the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Museum located in the restored railway station in the centre of town. Annually, the community hosts the Louisbourg Crab Fest. A large golf course and residential resort is planned near the community; designed by Nick Faldo ,

220-491: The Town of Louisbourg was disincorporated when all municipal units in Cape Breton County were merged into a single tier regional municipality in 1995. Pronounced "Lewisburg" by its largely English-speaking population, the present community has been identified by slightly different spellings over the years by both locals and visitors. The town was originally spelled Louisburg and several companies, including

242-537: The county was divided into three separate and distinct counties: In 1851, Victoria County was formed out of the northeastern part of Cape Breton County and a year later, in 1852, the present boundaries of Cape Breton County were defined by the colonial government in Halifax. As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Cape Breton County had a population of 98,318 living in 43,799 of its 48,020 total private dwellings,

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264-433: The military left. English settlers subsequently built a small fishing village across the harbour from the abandoned site of the fortress. The village grew slowly with additional Loyalists settlers in the 1780s. The harbour grew more accessible with the construction of the second Louisbourg Lighthouse in 1842 on the site of the original French lighthouse destroyed in 1758. A railway first reached Louisbourg in 1877, but it

286-525: The only municipality in the county has been a single-tier municipality called Cape Breton Regional Municipality . For statistical purposes, the First Nations reserves of Eskasoni 3 and Membertou 28B are included in the county, but are separate entities. Taking its name from Cape Breton, the most easterly point of the island which was called after the Bretons of Brittany , the county has what

308-579: The resort was expected to open in 2010 but development stalled in the recession. Louisbourg is home to the Louisbourg Playhouse, a theatre company operating in an Elizabethan theatre that was used as a prop in the live-action 1994 Disney film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale . Louisbourg experiences a marine influenced humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ). The highest temperature ever recorded in Louisbourg

330-564: The site. A square wooden lighthouse with a black stripe was built by the government of Nova Scotia in 1842. The lighthouse was a large 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wooden building supported by a massive masonry base. It included the keeper's dwelling in the base of the light. A fog horn building was added in 1902. This lighthouse was destroyed by fire in 1922. The foundation remains visible today and has been excavated and stabilized by Parks Canada archaeologists . An octagonal concrete lighthouse decorated with neoclassical architectural features

352-621: Was 34.0 °C (93 °F) on 2 September 2010 and 15 July 2013. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −26.0 °C (−15 °F) on 18 January 1982. Louisbourg (spelled Louisberg) was mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's story Feathertop . The town is also a major setting for Thomas H. Raddall 's 1946 novel Roger Sudden . The town "Louisburg" is mentioned in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's Evangeline . The 2011 film Take This Waltz begins with

374-831: Was built in 1923. The tower is a twin of the Georges Island Lighthouse in Halifax , Nova Scotia. The Louisbourg lighthouse was destaffed in 1990. The lighthouse is a popular lookoff point and in 2008 became the start of a coastal walking trail, the Louisbourg Lighthouse Trail . Interpretive plaques mark the ruins of the previous lighthouses. Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Louisbourg is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality , Nova Scotia . The French military founded

396-619: Was burned the first day the British landed during the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) . The French were terrorized and abandoned the Grand Battery, which the British occupied the following day. It was returned to France in 1748 but recaptured by the British in 1758 . After the capture in 1758, its fortifications were demolished in 1760 and the town-site abandoned by British forces in 1768. A small civilian population continued to live there after

418-407: Was established as a separate colony with a Lieutenant Governor and a nominated Executive Council, but without an elected house of assembly. Not until after Cape Breton Island was re-annexed to Nova Scotia in 1820 did it receive representation in an elected legislature. Although subdivided into three districts in 1824, Cape Breton County was co-extensive with Cape Breton Island from 1820 to 1835 when

440-647: Was poorly built and abandoned after a forest fire. However the arrival of Sydney and Louisburg Railway in 1894 brought heavy volumes of winter coal exports to Louisbourg Harbour's ice -free waters as a winter coal port. The harbour was used by the Canadian government ship Montmagny in 1912 to land bodies from the sinking of the RMS Titanic . In 1913 the Marconi Company established a transatlantic radio transmitting station here. Incorporated in 1901,

462-458: Was that all of Cape Breton County be amalgamated. On August 1, 1995, all seven municipal units in the county were dissolved and replaced by a single tier municipality called the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM). The new regional municipality's boundary included all of Cape Breton County except for the Eskasoni and Membertou First Nations . Cape Breton County continues to exist as

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484-486: Was unharmed and a new lantern was installed in 1738. Lighthouse Point played a decisive role in both the Siege of 1745 and 1758 as, once captured, it provided a commanding gun battery location to bombard the fortress. This lighthouse was badly damaged in 1758 during the Final Siege of Louisbourg and abandoned by the British after they demolished the fortress. Stonework ruins from the first tower are still visible at

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