Residential 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.

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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.

Villa Les Rochers – View From the Front Door

The mid-summer view of the front lawn at Villa Les Rochers, c. 1995, is inviting, airy and intimate and the same time.

Villa Les Rochers, 1995

The front entrance of Villa Les Rochers is wide and welcoming to guests as a B&B, 1995.

Gallery at Villa Les Rochers, 2015

View of the gallery at Villa Les Rochers, St. Patrick, Quebec in 2015. Copies of Lady Macdonald’s watercolours hang on the outside of the house, exhibited for a […]

Kenneth Molson’s Summer House

Kenneth Molson’s estate in St. Patrick was put up for sale after his death in 1932, and this was one of the photos later used to advertise the […]

Villa Les Rochers, Coloured Postcard

This undated coloured postcard of Villa Les Rochers was one of a number of postcards of the late Victorian era in Quebec featuring local homes of distinction.

Villa Les Rochers, c. 1883

Villa Les Rochers, c. 1883 has no known provenance although it was likely taken by James Topley, Sir John A. Macdonald’s Ottawa photographer who travelled to the Rivière-du-Loup […]