The Battles Of 1759 And 1760 Have
Rendered Sillery, St. Foye, And The Plains Of Abraham Classic Ground.
The
details of these events, having appeared elsewhere, [199] the reader is
referred to them.
Those of the present day desirous to ascertain the exact spot in the
environs of Quebec where past events have taken place, ought to be careful
not to be misled by subsequent territorial divisions for municipal or
canonical purposes. Many may not be aware that our forefathers included
under the denomination of Abraham's Heights that plateau of comparatively
level ground extending in a south-easterly direction from the Coteau
Ste. Genevieve towards the lofty banks which line the River St.
Lawrence, covering the greatest part of the land on which subsequently
have been built the St. Lewis and St. John's suburbs, the hilly portion
towards the city and river, where stands the Asile Champetre; thence
south-east, being then called Buttes a Nepveu; the land close by, between
the Plains and Pointe a Puiseaux, as Cote St. Michael; the ascent from the
valley of the St. Charles towards this plateau was through the hill known
as Cote d'Abraham. The locality afterwards known as Woodfield and Spencer
Wood, in the fief of St. Michael, was designated as the wood of Sames,
thus called after a celebrated French ecclesiastic of Quebec, Bishop
Dosquet, who owned there a country seat in 1753 - then known as Sames -
later on, as Woodfield. To the west lay the Gomin Wood - which had taken
its name from a French botanist, Dr. Gomin, who had located himself on
land on which it is said, Coulonge Cottage was subsequently built in order
to study the Flora of Sillery, which is very varied and rich.
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