 The region's colorful French heritage is
alive and well along the Fleur-de-lis and Marconi Trails, in
picturesque Acadian fishing villages that dot the rugged seacoast.
 The roots of the technical and industrial age
can be
found throughout this area. The Marconi National Historic Site marks
the location of the first west-to-east transatlantic radio transmission
in 1902. In Louisbourg, the Sydney & Louisburg Railway Museum pays
tribute to the region's rich railway heritage. The history of coal
mining is captured at Glace Bay's Miners' Museum, where visitors can
tour a turn-of-the-century miners' village and actually enter a
coalmine, the Ocean Deeps Colliery, with guides who once worked in the
mines.
Visit Fortress Louisbourg, the largest
historic reconstruction in North
America, meticulously rebuilt
on the foundations of the original
fortress - the site from which
the French hoped to reign over
all North Atlantic navigation
in the 1700s. This French town
is a bustle of 18th-century
activity inside the massive
stone gates - the year is 1744.
Stroll lively streets where
costumed washerwomen, bread
sellers, soldiers, noblemen
and musicians are going about
their daily business. Explore
historic period gardens, watch
musket and cannon drills, roam
through the king's storehouses,
and visit the homes of commoners,
merchants, and wealthy residents.
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