We visited the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Side on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada in July of 2024.
The Fortress of Louisbourg is a reconstruction (along with some ruins) of what was once a large French town and fortification. It existed from around 1719 to 1758, when it was destroyed. It was a victim of wars between the British and French.
In 1961 a decision was made to reconstruct at least part of the fortress and town, and this was accomplished during the 1960s to 1980s. In fact, the tour guide who took us to the site and showed our tour group around worked on the reconstruction when he was in college.
An entrance.
I have more pictures of reconstructed Louisbourg but what I wanted to show you today was something called Louisbrick, which is a reconstruction model of Louisbourg's Island Battery made entirely from Legos bricks.
I don't think it was meant to be a permanent exhibition but it was donated and can still be seen today online if you can't make it there in person.
Have you ever built anything with Legos?
L Day at the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. My theme: Beauty of our Land.
Tomorrow, join me for M day, which is also Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, for some more personal beauty.
...this should be on my to-list, perhaps in my next life!
ReplyDeleteI love legos as do my sons and grandson. A box of them is sitting here next to my computer, lol. I did not know about the exhibit when I visited Nova Scotia. Wish I had. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYes to lego building, all 3 of my kids enjoyed them so I spent a good time "helping" with those kits. I think we all enjoyed free play better than following instructions, lol. Nothing as elaborate as that tho.
ReplyDeleteHow very cool. What they can do with Legos...
ReplyDeleteI love the Lego gardens! I have built with Legos, once my children had them. We still have a big tub of them somewhere. Even as adults they like to fiddle around with them at times.
ReplyDeleteLegos are amazing. There's nothing that compares to them, which is interesting since they're so popular you'd think someone would have come up with a competitor by now.
ReplyDeleteNot a big lego building, but my dad had a model train setup where we would build little houses.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's so cool.
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