Buildings & Structures Archives | Villa Les Rochers: Summer Residence of Sir John A. and Lady Agnes Macdonald

Breakfast Nook at Villa Les Rochers, 2017

The breakfast nook at Villa Les Rochers, where one can look out the windows at the view of the Saint Lawrence River.

St. Bartholomew’s Church c. 1860

An image of the wooden St. Bartholomew’s anglican church with a square steeple at the front, and a graveyard in the foreground. The church’s modest construction nevertheless had some […]

An Architect Explores Villa Les Rochers

“An Architect Explores Villa Les Rochers”, a short documentary written and narrated by Nour Riyadh Gessoum, featuring contemporary photos and film as well as archival images. Opening image is […]

The Lure of the Lower Saint Lawrence: Home of Villa Les Rochers

Transcript for “The Lure of the Lower Saint Lawrence: Home of Villa Les Rochers”, a documentary with moving film, four interview subjects alternately speaking, and a montage of […]

Sir Henry Newell Bate’s House, St. Patrick

An old postcard showing Sir Henry Bate’s house, 318 rue Fraser, St. Patrick. This house was built in 1875, elaborate even for its time, sparing no decorative detail. […]

The Last Spike

In this most iconic of Canadian historical photographs, the Hon. Donald A. Smith is seen driving the commemorative last spike to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway, on the […]

St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church and Minister’s House

In this undated photo, St. Bartholomew’s Church and minister’s house appear to be unusually close together. Members of the minister’s family stand in front of the house which […]

Gravestone at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church

One of the historic gravestones at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church in Rivière-du-Loup is that of Reverend George Harding and his wife, Rachel Burrill. Reverend Harding was one of […]

Pews and Altar at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church

The pews and the altar and many of the decorations at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Rivière-du-Loup remain the same as they were during the years that the Macdonald […]

Old St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church

Photo of old St. Bartholomew’s Church, seen from the road, its property enclosed by a wooden picket fence. c. 1890-1910

Rookwood in July 2017

The summer cottage known as Rookwood is located not far from Villa Les Rochers in old St. Patrick. Early governors general including the Moncks and the Dufferins occasionally […]

Villa Les Rochers in 1910

Some of the trees had begun to crowd the outside of Villa Les Rochers by 1910, during the time that Lord Shaughnessy owned the property.