Saint-Louis castle

The castle Saint-Louis was a building of the town of Quebec, located at the current site of the Dufferin terrace, very close to the Château Frontenac.

History

Built in 1620, by Samuel de Champlain, strong Saint-Louis becomes a Château and the official residence of the government of News-France, in 1646. The count de Frontenac will make rebuild the fort and the castle between 1692 and 1700. Restored after the English conquest, the castle is destroyed by the flames in 1834.

Today

It will be necessary to await 1985 and 1986 before Parcs Canada does not undertake archaeological excavations under the Dufferin terrace and does not put at the day of the impressive vestiges and preserved remarkably well a fort and a castle, two essential witnesses of the birth of the city, country and a French presence in America. The archeologists put at the day, in particular, a monumental refrigerator, contemporary of Frontenac, which could have been enough with the needs for the Château Frontenac for today, or almost. The architect Michel Dallaire of the firm of the same name, an originator of multimedia projects who enjoys an international reputation now, projects to restore and emphasize the vestiges of the fort and the Saint-Louis castle, under the current Dufferin terrace, to make of it a museum of history and archeology and a center of interpretation of the local history to the fine point of technology.

External bond

Strong Saint-Louis on the site of Parks Canada

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