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Maison Drouin (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ dʁuɛ̃]; also known as Maison Cyril-Drouin) is a farmhouse located in a rural setting in Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada. It was built between 1729 and 1730, then extended between 1734 and 1736.
A classic rural New France home on the Île d'Orléans. Hundreds of family houses were built during the period of New France. This particular style houses date back to the 17th and 18th centuries and occurs especially in Quebec City, Île d'Orléans, and along the countryside. They were specially built to withstand cold weather and look very ...
The Maison Morisset (also known by its nickname "La Brimbale" [1]) is a farmhouse built in 1678 during the seigneurial system of New France.Located in the municipality of Sainte-Famille on Île d'Orléans, the Maison Morisset was classified as a historic site and building by the Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec on June 7, 1962.
Mouscron's public park dates back to the 1930s. With its ponds and manicured green areas, it is home to all [citation needed] the plant varieties that can be grown in the local climate [citation needed] and it extends over an area of 7 hectares. It was inaugurated in 1932 by Fernand Cocq. The house of Picardy (Maison Picarde).
The Maison Saint-Gabriel Museum is located in Montreal, Quebec and is dedicated to preserving the history, heritage and artifacts of the settlers of New France in the mid 17th century. The museum consists of a small farm, which has been administered for more than 300 years by the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal , founded ...
The Quebec diaspora consists of Quebec immigrants and their descendants dispersed over the North American continent and historically concentrated in the New England region of the United States, Ontario, and the Canadian Prairies. The mass emigration out of Quebec occurred in the period between 1840 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. [1]
On the formation of Lower Canada, in August, 1791, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn arrived in Quebec City and shortly afterwards leased Judge Mabane's house for £90 per annum. He lived there for three happy years with his beautiful mistress, Madame de Saint Laurent, before he was posted to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1794.
In the 240 years between Verrazano's voyage of exploration in 1524 and the Conquest of New France in 1763, the French marked the North American continent in many ways. . Whether it was through by land distribution and clearing, the establishment of villages and towns, deploying a network of roads and paths or developing the territory with various constructions, the French colonists transformed ...