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LOUISBOURG INSTITUTE WEBMASTER NEWSLETTER
2005, Issue 1
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New Partner ~ On June 1, 2005, the Fortress Louisbourg Association/Association de la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg officially partnered with the Louisbourg Institute of /L'Institute de Louisbourg de Cape Breton University and its stated mandate. In fact, last June, 2004, the Association had already begun this process when it partially underwrote the cost of the new Institute server, and whose help the webmaster had acknowledged in his newsletter of 2004, Issue 3. The current partners are as follows:
(1) Cape Breton University
(2) Fortress Louisbourg Association/Association de la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg
(3) Krause House Info-Research Solutions
In 2003, Krause House Info-Research Solutions began to examine the "French and Spanish Archives, 1763-1841." also known as the "St Louis Archives" and described in the Issue 5, 2003 newsletter. Owing to the unexpected slowness of the interlibrary loan system between the Fortress and the University of Missouri, that work was not completed until this year. The results can be examined at http://www.krausehouse.ca/krause/StLouisFrSp.html .
The webmaster researched and published on June 12, 2005, "Selections from Bibliothèque Nationale, Arsenal 12,200, Archives de la Bastille, R - 37,399" to the Institute web at http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/search/bastille.html . This microfilm, on temporary loan from Ottawa, held an enormous amount of new information which the Fortress might use one day in its interpretation programme. Seven other reels in the "Bastille" series will be ordered on interlibrary loan for examination. For certain Arsenal 12,480 and Arsenal 12,506 will prove fruitful as well.
Scanning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Reports Programme
Between June 1 and August 31, 2005, the following key historical reports will be scanned (project already underway):
- Report on the Casemates of the King's Bastion (Report H-A10)
- Report on the Demolition of 1760 (Report H A-11-S1)
- Ancien Gouvernement (Report H-A 11-S2)
- Princess Bastion Report by Margaret Fortier (Report HB-03)
- Louisbourg Quay by Rodrigue LaVoie (Report H-B5 E [English])
- Louisbourg Quay by Rodrigue LaVoie (Report HB 5-R [Revised])
- The Louisbourg Quay in 1745 by Pierre Bureau (Report H-B11)
- Construction Chronology for the Royal Battery (Report H-B16)
- Etude sur les propriété de Louisbourg (Report H-D3)
- Aubergistes et Cabaretiers de Louisbourg, 1713-1758, par Gilles Proulx (Report HF-19)
Reports Publication Programme to http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/search :
Between September 1 and November 30, 2005, the following scanned reports will be proofed and published:
- Construction Chronology for the Royal Battery (Report H-B16) [60 pages in Table Format]
- Report on the Casemates of the King's Bastion (Report H-A10) [37 pages]
- The Louisbourg Quay in 1745 by Pierre Bureau (Report H-B11) [12 pages]
- Etude sur les propriété de Louisbourg (Report H-D3) [44 pages]
- Report on the Demolition of 1760 (Report H A-11-S1) [14 pages]
- Ancien Gouvernement (Report H-A 11-S2) [22 pages]