Enjoy the five 18th-century French-style gardens in the reconstructed historic site, from the simple board-sided practicality of the De Gannes garden all the way to the formality of the Ordonnateur’s garden with its sand pathways to walk and admire. The gardens have varieties of plants that provided medicine, dye and fresh food for their owners.
These gardens are open daily during the historic site hours with costumed staff that can answer questions and tell intriguing stories about life in Louisbourg. See how they use tools and techniques of the time. Visit these little green corners of the Fortress that served to sustain the people of the time and are preserved and presented for you to enjoy today.
Healing Gardener – Garden Tour: Explore Louisbourg’s plants and their usefulness during this 60 minutes tour offer daily from July 1st to September 7, 2015. Taste, smell and get to know uses for ornamental, medicinal and edible herbs and plants growing in the fortress’s gardens. Plus head home with an 18th century herbal handbook. You never know when you may need a remedy for “the vapours”!
