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The Lost World of Cape Breton Island

J.M., J.R. Bourgeois

The Lost World of Cape Breton Island Podcast is a Canadian history project that uncovers the forgotten stories of 18th-and 19th-century Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Explore Cape Breton’s history with the help of those who witnessed it firsthand. Listen to the mad ramblings of a Scottish exile as he describes what life was like in the Fortress of Louisbourg, follow the rising career of a French sailor destined to explore the world, and feel the despair as an aristocratic trailblazer struggles to eke out

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09b - The Boularderies of Little Bras d'Or

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2025/10/31

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 will listen to Antoine’s eyewitness account of the days leading up to the first siege of Louisbourg. We will also visit Little Bras d’Or, a once thriving French settlement in the heart of Cape Breton and the home of the Boularderie Family. MUSICAL CREDITS:-- Robert Deveaux & Les

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00:21:53

09a - The Boularderies of Little Bras d'Or

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2025/10/15

Although Antoine Le Poupet de La Boularderie and his father Louis-Simon have been designated Canadian Historic Persons – individuals who made significant contributions to the history of Canada – their story has only ever been partially told. Part of their story can be found on Cape Breton Island, another part in France, and still another part in the American State of South Carolina. We will reassemble the family’s entire story for the first time.MUSICAL CREDITS:— Robert Deveaux & Les Zorvenants

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01:46:29

FULL AUDIOBOOK - The Acadians, by Caroline-Isabelle...

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2025/05/27

The audio book The Acadians was produced in collaboration with the Canadian Historical Association.CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction 01:18 - Who Are the Acadians? 03:56 - The Acadians Until the Deportation (1604 - 1755-63) 30:55 - The Slow Reconstruction of Acadian Communities (1763 - 1900)54:33 - The Long Twentieth Century 1:38:10 - The Acadians Facing the FutureThis book is booklet #33 of the CHA’s Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada booklet series. Founded in 1922, the Canadian Historical Association

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BONUS EPISODE - John Montresor Walks the Old French...

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2025/02/15

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08 - Christophe Chiquelier Jr: Louis XV's Music Man...

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2024/11/10

As “Keeper of the King’s Instruments” for Louis XV, Christophe Chiquelier Jr’s work was endless but no doubt fulfilling. He was a master musical instrument maker, supplier of harpsichords to the Royal Family, and an instrument collector. But for a brief time during his youth, he was a soldier in Louisbourg, the capital of the French colony of Île Royale, known today as Cape Breton Island. SHOWNOTES MUSIC: Concerts royaux, Quatrième concert - Sarabanda - Armonie Symphony Orchestra, Stefano

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07c - The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to...

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2024/04/29

The finale of our three part series on the life and times of James Johnstone. Follow the Chevalier de Johnstone's escapades in Cape Breton from 1756 through to 1758 and see how this Scotsman's memoirs tell the long forgotten stories of Cape Breton's past.SHOWNOTES - MUSIC: Concerto Grosso for Strings “Palladio”: Allegro Les Habitants - Quand J’étais Sur Mon Père Sinfonia in G Minor, T. Si 7 Symphony No.8 in D Minor, Op. 2 Enigma Variations, Op. 36 1. Memoirs of the Rebellion

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07b - The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to...

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2024/03/03

In this episode, we travel back in time to the year 1753 and see Cape Breton Island through the eyes of Scottish exile the Chevalier de Johnstone. We will also bridge two very different eras of Cape Breton’s past - the French colonial period of the early 18th century, and the era of Scottish migration which took place in the 19th century.SHOW NOTES - MUSIC: Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons-Summer Michael Schaeffer - French Baroque Lute Music Barde - Whelan’s Jig, the Swallow’s Tail,

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07a - The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to...

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2024/01/11

The Chevalier de Johnstone is one of the most colourful personalities to have come through Cape Breton in the 18th century. A Scottish exile who was involved in the 1746 Jacobite Rebellion, Johnstone was likely one of the only - if not the only - Scotsmen in Cape Breton during the time of Louisbourg. He is often in the right place, but simply not at the right time.Special thanks to the Barra MacNeils for kindly allowing us to use their rendition of the song “Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his

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06 - The Lost Villages of Allemands and Rouillé

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2023/10/08

Near the shores of the Mira River halfway through the 18th century sat two small villages now lost to time - Village des Allemands and Village Rouillé. Though existing for only six short years, the stories these villages tell reflects the greater challenges that typified the Canadian maritime region during the 1750s. SHOW NOTES: MUSIC - Violin Sonatas, Op 9, No 7in G Major III Ari Les Habitants - Tourdion Duo Baroque La Tour - Flute Sonatas, Op 3, No.2 III Minuetto, Variation Barde - Jack

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05 - The Lost Harbour of Saint Esprit

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2023/05/15

For centuries, Cape Breton Island has seen waves of settlers come ashore from many different parts of the world. The ebb and flow of peoples spurred on by the effects of war, by enterprise or by the simple desire to put food on their table has shaped the cultural fabric of the island for hundreds of years. Bretons, Normans and Basque arrived during the 18th century when the island was under the jurisdiction of New France, and then in the early 19th century the Gaelic speaking inhabitants of places

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04 - Explorers La Pérouse and Cook Converge on Cape...

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2022/10/02

In the age of Pacific exploration, two men spearheaded expeditions to huge swaths of the globe previously uncharted by Europeans - Jean François de La Pérouse and James Cook.Although La Pérouse and Cook would never meet, both men would converge on Cape Breton Island in the year 1758, near the beginning of their careers.This episode takes us from the port of Rochefort, France to the idyllic settlement known today as Englishtown, and then on to the shores of Gabarus Bay.

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03 - French Explorer La Pérouse and the Shores of...

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2022/09/22

Jean-François de La Pérouse was one of the most renowned mariners and explorers of the 18th century, but in 1788 he and his expedition disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that would take decades to unravel. La Pérouse visited Cape Breton Island several times during his early years at sea – this episode introduces La Pérouse and touches on his visit to the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1757.

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02c - Helen Creighton and the Mystery of...

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2022/09/22

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. Two strong links exist between the

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02b - Helen Creighton and the Mystery of...

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2022/09/22

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

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00:06:56

02a - Helen Creighton and the Mystery of...

The Lost World of Cape Breton Island ·

2022/09/22

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

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01 - John Montresor’s Overland Trek From Louisbourg...

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2022/09/22

In our first episode, we introduce the Lost World of Cape Breton podcast series. 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 directly following the fall of Cape Breton Island to the British.

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