The Fief of the Recollets - or Franciscan Friars - the order
being extinct, reverted to the Crown.
WAR DEPARTMENT PROPERTY IN QUEBEC CITY AND DISTRICT.
As per Schedule, Consolidated Statutes of Canada (22 Vict.) Cap. 36.
LOCAL NAME OF THE PROPERTY AND ORIGIN OF THE TITLE.
Exercising Ground, Plains of Abraham - Leasehold from the Ursuline
Nuns, 99 years from 1st May, 1802.
No. 3 Tower Field, N. W. of the Grande Allee, Plains of Abraham -
Leasehold from the Nuns of the Hotel-Dieu, 99 years from 1st May, 1790;
space covered by the tower is freehold.
No. 4 Tower Field, N. W. of St. John's Road - Leasehold from the Nuns
of the Hotel-Dieu; 99 years from 1st May, 1790; including a freehold
strip of 0a. 1r. 0-1/2p.
Land surrounding Nos. 1 and 2, Towers, S. E. side of the Grande Allee
Plains of Abraham - Acquired by purchase from the Ursuline Nuns, 15th
June, 1811, Joseph Plante, N. P., Quebec.
Land S. E. of the Grande Allee to the Cime du Cap and between Nos. 1
and 2, Towers property, and counterscarp of the Citadel and works
adjacent - The greater part acquired by purchase from individuals, and
partly by conquest, of the old French Works, &c., an annual ground
rent of L1 17s. 0d., is payable on part of this land to the Fief de
Villeray.
The Esplanade, Town Works - Glacis, Cricket Field, ditches, ravelin,
&c., in front, lying between St. Louis and St. John's Gates - Acquired
partly by conquest and partly by purchase from various individuals
(Cricket Field, 5a. 3r. 22p.)
Citadel - Glacis and Town Works, as far as St. Louis Gate, Engineer
Yard, &c. - Chiefly by right of conquest and military appropriation.
Town Works, Artillery Barracks, Glacis, &c., between St. John's Gate,
Palace Gate and St. Valier street - Chiefly by conquest and military
appropriation. Lots in St. Vallier street, purchased in 1846-7.
Mount Carmel, a commanding eminence, and site of the Windmill Redoubt
or Cavalier, formerly a portion of the defenses of Quebec. - Acquired
by purchase, 25th Nov, 1780. J. Plinguet, N.P.
Officers' Barracks, Garrison Hospital, &c., fronting on St. Louis
street, and in rear by St. Genevieve street. - Acquired by purchase,
5th April, 1811.
Commissariat Premises, opposite old Court House, on St. Louis street,
and in rear by Mount Carmel street. - Acquired by purchase, 11th
August, 1815.
Jesuit Barracks, with other buildings and land attached, fronting on
St. Anne street and Upper Town market square. - By right of conquest
and military appropriation, occupied as Infantry Barracks, &c.
The Town Works, along the top of the Cape (Cime du Cap), between the
King's Bastion of the Citadel and Prescott Gate, Mountain Hill,
including site of old Fort St. Louis, Government Garden, &c. - Part of
the Crown Domain by conquest and military appropriation, with small
portions at either end acquired by purchase in 1781, and about 1827-
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