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The old Château Richer “monastery”
This image by George Heriot reveals the rubble of what the artist mistakenly identifies as a monastery. It was rather the first convent for the nuns of the Notre-Dame Congregation that was built in 1697. After the Conquest, the building was first occupied and then burned. The painter skilfully immortalized some masonry ruins of the convent in 1799.
George Heriot
Library and Archives Canada
Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Acc. No. R9266-4153 - Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana - Date: 1799