Two strong links exist between the Acadian village of Chéticamp and the French fortress of Louisbourg - Jeanne Dugas and the family of Joseph Gaudet. The third installment of our episode on the Acadian folk song “Louisbourg’s Lament” examines the life and times of these two people and the experiences of their immediate families.

The song "Louisbourg's Lament" can be listened to in its entirety by clicking on the link below; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZNYQCPn0Zk&list=PLrnsKyeY4QZeow8r6KwaaLOkvuGEb0Tkm&index=4SHOW NOTES: MUSICAL CREDITS:-- La complainte de Louisbourg recorded in 1944 by Helen Creighton - sung by Tom Doucet -- Luce Antoinette Bourgeois - "Le Prince Eugene" Singer accompanying the Cape Rouge photos - (clip from the National Film Board video), "Les Acadiens de la Dispersion". -- Les Habitants - J'entends le moulin PICTURE CREDITS:-- Chéticamp 1810 - Lewis Parker-- Grand Pré - E.A. Bollinger Nova Scotia Archives VIDEO CREDITS:-- Drone video of Fortress Louisbourg - Smithsonian channel-- Drone video of Chéticamp - Louli Vlogs-- Video of Deportation scene - Historica Canada-- Video of Horse and buggy - Canada A People's History: Episode 3 - Claiming the Wilderness 1670 to 1755-- Video of Louisbourg map and King's Bastion - Canada A People's History: Episode 3 - Claiming the Wilderness 1670 to 1755SOURCES: 1. Lane-Jonah, A. M. (2016). Everywoman’s Biography: The Stories of Marie Marguerite Rose and Jeanne Dugas at Louisbourg. Acadiensis, 45(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/245842. Louisbourg Parish Records – G1, Vol. 406, Registry 4, f. 31v – http://www.krausehouse.ca/krause/ParishRecordsHtml/Default.htm3. Bernard Pothier, “DUGAS, JOSEPH (1714-79),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 3, 2021, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dugas_joseph_1714_79_4E.html.4. Letter from Louis du Pont Duchambon to Minister of the Marine Maurepas, September 2 17455. 1752 Census of Île Royale and Île St-Jean, Sieur de la Roque – “Port Toulouse”6. Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 445 no. 47 – https://archives.novascotia.ca/census/RG1v445/returns/?ID=3638Archives des Colonies : Recensement de l'Île Royal et de l'Île Saint-Jean, Série G1 - 4582 - https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c4582

Note -  Since the publishing of this podcast, historian Éva Guillorel from the University of Rennes in France has done significant research into the origins of “La Complainte de Louisbourg.” She has uncovered evidence that this Acadian folksong is based on an older French song written about one of the sieges of Philippsburg. Her findings were published in the Spring 2022 edition of the journal Acadiensis and updates some of the information found in this episode.The second part of episode 2 analyzes the lyrics of “Louisbourg’s Lament” in order to see how it holds up against the historical record of the fall of Louisbourg in 1745. Special thanks to Robert Deveaux, folklorist and song keeper from Chéticamp, for supplying much of the information regarding “La complainte de Louisbourg”SHOW NOTES: MUSICAL CREDITS:-- “Malvina” - recorded by Robert DeveauxVIDEO CREDITS: -- "Louisbourg Under Siege", National Film Board of CanadaPHOTO CREDITS:-- Lewis Parker, artist-- “Plan de Philisbourg, 1750”, Bibliothèque Nationale de France GallicaSOURCES: 1.Conrad Laforte, La catalogue de la chanson folklorique française, vol 6. Presses Université Laval, 1983 p. 409-423 2. Ægidius Fauteux, Les Du Ponts de l’Acadie. Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, August and September 1940 3. George M. Wrong, M.A., Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg, Warwick Bro’s & Rutter, 1897

Note -  Since the publishing of this podcast, historian Éva Guillorel from the University of Rennes in France has done significant research into the origins of “La Complainte de Louisbourg.” She has uncovered evidence that this Acadian folksong is based on an older French song written about one of the sieges of Philippsburg. Her findings were published in the Spring 2022 edition of the journal Acadiensis and updates some of the information found in this episode.

In the first part of our second episode, we examine the traditional Acadian song “La Complainte de Louisbourg”, or “Louisbourg’s Lament”, a song believed to have originated with an eye-witness to the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg. SHOW NOTES: VIDEO CREDITS: -- Songs of Nova Scotia - Producing Agency: National Film Board of CanadaPHOTO CREDITS: -- McCord Museum, Montréal, Quebec

In our first episode, we introduce the Lost World of Cape Breton project. We also follow John Montresor, an engineer in the British army, overland from Louisbourg to the shores of the Bras d’Or Lakes as he embarks on an “inland scout” in the months following the fall of Cape Breton Island to the British.Read the Montresor Journals - https://archive.org/details/montresorjourna00montgoog/page/n4/mode/2upSHOW NOTES: MUSICAL CREDITS: -- Les Habitants - En Roulant La Bouteille SOURCES: 1. "The Montresor Journals," John Montresor, p. 188 - 192 2. Sauriol, M (2004). Voyage en hyver et sur les glaces de Chédiäque à Québec. Cap-aux-Diamants, (78), 43-43 3. The Cultural Landscape of 18th Century Louisbourg – Margaret Fortier. 1983 4. "Carte des environs de Louisbourg avec la rivière, partie du grand lac et le chemin de Myré" - Pierre-Jérôme Boucher, Bibliothèque Nationale de France