Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Louisbourg Navy League Building
Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1941
- Decade built
- 1940-1949
- Builder
- J. W. Stephens
- Notice of registration date
- 24 May 1994
- Civic address
- 7563 Main Street
- Community
- Louisbourg
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.91897, -59.97515
- File number
- Prov_file_188
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The 1764 map covering this location: "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
very few surviving examples in the nation of those buildings erected during the Second World War by the Navy League of Canada to serve as hostels for merchant seamen and members of the Armed Forces, and because of its continued use by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, an organization closely associated with the Navy League.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Louisbourg Navy League Building include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood frame construction;
- one-and-a-half storey wood frame rear addition;
- entrance porch with pedimented gable;
- wood cladding;
- prominent location on the harbour side of Main Street.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.