Canada, an Historical Magazine, volume 1, number 4 (June 1974). This special Louisbourg issue contains several articles on the fortress and town.
Gwyn, Julian and Christopher Moore, editors, La chute de Louisbourg (Ottawa, Presses de l'UniversitΘ d'Ottawa, 1978)
Fortier, John, Fortress of Louisbourg (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1979)
MacLennan, J.S., Louisbourg from Its Foundation to Its Fall (Sydney: Fortress Press, 1969)
Moore, Christopher, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth Century Garrison Town (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982)
Parkman, Francis, A Half-Century of Conflict (New York: Collier-MacMillan, 1962)
Rawlyk, G.A., Yankees at Louisbourg (Orono: University of Maine, 1967)
Stanley, George F.G., New France, the Last Phase, 1744-1760 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, l968). This provides useful detail about the overall situation against which the struggle for Louisbourg proceeded.
Volumes 2(1701-1740) and 3(1741-1770) of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, l969-1974) contain additional information on people associated with Louisbourg.