LOUISBURGH, CANADA, JUNE 1866
The settlement of Louisburgh was not much of a place. Named after its founder, Louis de Ville, it had never grown past the size of a hamlet, despite its antiquity. Centred on a solid church with an ornate wooden spire, and with a cobbled square, on which a monthly market attracted local farmers, Louisburgh boasted fewer than 30 houses, mostly of timber. The town"s only claim to fame was a rumour that General Wolfe had passed through, although others scoffed at the notion, asking why the great general should visit such an out-of-the-way place. Apart from that vague legend, there was a story of a marital scandal involving a woman with two husbands at some point during the last century. Apart from these semi-legendary stories, nothing significant had ever happen
