09b - The Boularderies of Little Bras d’Or

In 1744 the French and English beat the drums of war, and Antoine de La Boularderie finds himself in the middle of a conflict that rages across Cape Breton Island and Acadia. In the second part of this episode, we visit Little Bras d’Or, the home of La Boularderie and a once thriving French settlement in the heart of Cape Breton. We will also listen to Antoine’s eyewitness account of the days leading up to the first siege of Louisbourg.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro/The Raid on Canso
02:40 - Little Bras d'Or
08:35 - The 1745 Siege of Louisbourg
11:40 - The Attack at Gabarus Bay

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SOURCES:
1. Les Derniers Jours de l'Acadie 1748-1758, Gaston du Boscq de Beaumont
2. Louisbourg From its Foundation to its Fall, J.S. MacLennan
3. Antoine Le Poupet de La Boularderie, Dale Miquelon (Canadian Biographical Dictionary) - https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/le_po...

MUSICAL CREDITS:
-- Robert Deveaux & Les Zorvenants - "Cela me réjouit" (Lost World theme)
-- Les Habitants - "Branles: Pinagay et Sabots"
-- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) - "String Quartet In D, Op. 645, H 363, Lark - I. Allegro Moderato"
-- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) - "Fugue in G minor, The Little Fugue, for string orchestra by Daniel Leavitt"
-- Sparks of Light Music - "Reminiscence"

MAPS and PHOTOS:
-- Watercolour painting of a small sailboat
Artist: George Wolfe (1834 - 1890)
Public Domain

-- Prospect of LOUISBOURG taken from ye NE Harbour / by J.H. Bastide, drawn by J. Heath.
Artist: John Henry Bastide (circa 1700 - 1770)
Public Domain

-- A Calm with a Man of War firing a Salute
Artist: Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749)
Public Domain

-- Continental schooner Hannah
Artist: John Faunce Leavitt (1905 - 1974)
Public Domain

-- A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross
Artist: Thomas Davies (1737 - 1812)
Public Domain

-- Veue de la ville de Louisbourg prise en dedans du port
Artist: Verrier fils fecit
Public Domain

-- Plan de l'entrée et d'une partie de la petite Brasdor qui comprend l'établissement de Mr de La
Boularderie et des habitans Pescheurs / Levé au mois d'aoust 1742 [par] Boucher
Artist: Boucher, Pierre-Jérôme (1688 - 1753)
Public Domain

-- Little Bras d'Or Inlet
Photographer: Unknown

-- John Stewart McLennan Estate
Photographer: Unknown

-- A View of the Landing the New England Forces in ye Expedition against CAPE BRETON, 1745
Artist: J. Stevens (no documented date of birth or death)
Public Domain

-- The Siege of Louisbourg by Domenick D'Andrea and Rick Reeves for the states of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, 1745.
Artists: Domenick d’Andrea and Rick Reeves
Public Domain

-- A plan of the city & harbour of Louisburg : shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which the English
landed, also their encampment during the Siege in 1745.
Artist: Unknown
Public Domain

-- Attack on Louisbourg in 1745
Artist: Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749)
Public Domain

VIDEO CREDITS:
-- Louisbourg Under Siege
Director: Albert Kish
1997 - 45 min - Documentary
Source: National Film Board

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