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Louisbourg and remaining French Atlantic colonies
France retained Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island after Utrecht. Louisbourg’s fortified town developed from 1719 and became their administrative and maritime centre.
Not publication-ready.
- Historical place
- Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean
- Present-day context
- Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- French, Acadians, Mi’kmaq
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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History: Louisbourg
Parks Canada · institutional history · Review: search excerpt
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.