Grant, Receiver-General of His Majesty's rents,
with Madame La Baronne de Longueuil, his respected spouse. The Grant
estate, by a patent from Sir James Craig, dated 11th March, 1811,
subsequently included what is now a most populous portion of St. Roch,
styled "La Vacherie," because the city cows were daily brought to these
moist lands adjoining the St. Charles. However, this opulent family had
another manor, built by the Baronne very shortly after her marriage with
Mr. Grant, in 1770, on the lovely Island of St. Helene, opposite to
Montreal. She had also erected, opposite to Molson's brewery, a
banal mill to grind the corn garnered in the neighborhood. The St.
Helene manor was probably the country seat during the summer mouths, and
the St. Vallier street mansion la maison de ville of its busy and
successful master, who died in 1805, ten years after his noble lady, who
had expired on the 25th February, 1795.
[140] This gentleman (Mr. William Henderson) was for many years Secretary
of the Quebec Fire Assurance Company. I believe he is still living, and
that he resides at Frampton, in the County of Dorchester, P.Q.
[141] Renaud & Brown's Mills at present.
[142] Report No. 3 of Commissioners of the Harbour of Quebec.
[142] Queen's Birthday, Brochure, 1880.
[144] QUEBEC PAST AND PRESENT, p. 353.
[145] QUEBEC AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. - Chas. Roger, 1864.
CHAPTER IV.
[146] The residence of Jos. Shehyn, Esq., M.P.P., occupies now this
historic site.
[147] SAUNDERS SIMPSON. - He was Prevost Marshal in Wolfe's army of
Louisbourg, Quebec and Montreal, and cousin of my father's. He resided in
that house, the nearest to St. Louis Gate, outside, which has not
undergone any external alteration since I was a boy. - From unpublished
Diary of Deputy Commissary General Jas. Thompson.
[148] Recent evidence extracted by Dr. H. H. Miles, out of Jas. Thompson's
papers and letters, strengthen the theory previously propounded, and
indicate Miss Mary Simpson, daughter of Saunders Simpson, as the famed
Quebec beauty of 1782.
[149] Paint and extensive repairs have very much improved the historical
house - owned and partly occupied by Mr. Green, Surveyor of H. M. Customs,
Quebec - this year until May tenanted by George Stewart, Esq., author of
"Lord Dufferin's Rule in Canada," "The Great St. John Fire, 1877," &c.
[150] Major Perrault and his esteemed father, the Prothonotary, a warm
friend to education, both lived there many years.
[151] Three only now exist.
[152] My old friend died in 1867 - regretted as a scholar, an antiquarian
and the type of the old English gentleman.
[153] This realm of fairy land, so rich in nature's graces, so profusely
embellished by the late James Gibb, Esq., President of the Quebec Bank,
was recently sold for a rural cemetery.
