Dans un Petit Village

La maison Felix Parent is different from all of the other houses that I have written about so far. We did not have time to get to la maison Felix Parent on Saturday. We had spent much longer at the cemeteries than we thought, there were many more "Parent" tombstones to document that we realized! We had stopped at the IGA in Beauport to picked up some items on Saturday evening when I realized that la maison Felix Parent was very close to the IGA. We decided that we would visit the last two houses on our list on Sunday morning before heading back to Montreal, that would give me time for a good look at the house and time to take pictures. It seemed like a good plan. Sunday morning was the opposite of the bright and sunny day that we enjoyed the day before on Saturday. When we got up on Sunday morning it was overcast. When I went out for coffee it was raining. For the rest of the day it never stopped raining. Still, I wanted to see the last two houses. It was early on Sun

La maison Edouard T. Parent house is unique in that is was built on the original land that was ceded to Pierre Parent (1628 - 1698) by the Jesuits in 1654, two years after Pierre had arrived in Nouvelle France in 1652. Pierre is the original ancestor of our Parent family. La maison Edouard T. Parent was one of the first homes to be built on the seigneury of Notre Dame des Anges which was owned by the Jesuits. From the mid 18th century until 1953 the house had remained in the Parent family. I built that this house should be called la maison Parent because it is so fundamental to the history, location and residence of the Parent family. There were two distinct stages of construction for la maison Edouard T. Parent. The first stage was built on a stone foundation (provided by the Parent stone quarry) before 1750. The first stage would now be the eastern portion of the house. It had two chimneys and gabled walls. The second half of the house, the western section, was added in 1804. Arc

I  saw the Maison Laurent dit Lortie as we were driving int Beauport on the Friday evening that we drove from Montreal. I recognised the house immediately from the pictures that I had seen on the internet. It was late afternoon and the late afternoon shadows gave the house an dramatic look that impressed on me just old the house is. Unfortunately, we could not stop to look. we had been on the road for over three hours and we were anxious to get to our destination, the Ambassador Hotel and get something to eat. The Maison Laurent dit Lortie would have to wait for the next day. The maison Laurent dit Lortie would be the last house that we would look at on chemin Royal that day, it was located at 3200 chemin Royal. There was one more house and two cemeteries to visit before lunch! We had been impressed by our passing impression of the maison Laurent Lortie when we had driven past the evening before. Now in the mid-morning light the house had the appearance of being filled with light. If