Domaine de Maizerets

This guide to Domaine de Maizerets in Quebec City opens in 1777, as mason Michel-Augustin Jourdain surveys a farmhouse burned by American soldiers who had used it as an artillery position during the siege of Quebec. It traces the estate back further, to 1713 and the Seminaire de Quebec, and to Louis Ango des Maizerets, the superior the estate was named for. You'll hear how Jourdain and carpenter Joseph Robitaille rebuilt the house within a year, and how it burned twice more in the twentieth century. Look for the line in the stonework where the original 1713 masonry meets Jourdain's 1777 patch job.