Maison Jean-Baptiste-Chevalier

This guide to Maison Jean-Baptiste-Chevalier in Quebec City follows the merchant shipowner who in 1752 chose a muddy cove called Cul-de-Sac Bay to build a house that doubled as a loading dock, its vaulted stone cellars filled straight from boats at high tide. It traces the 1759 siege that battered the building with British guns and fire, and Chevalier's decision to rebuild it by 1762, thicker-walled but on the same footprint before his death the following year. Stand in the cellar and listen for what the guide says the stone still remembers.