Quebec House

This gabled, red-brick 17th-century house was home to the young General James Wolfe, well known to most Canadians of our age group thanks to high school history classes. Few battles between the French and English of Canada eclipse the Battle of Quebec on the Plains of Abraham (1759) and few children raised in Ontario and Quebec fail to recognize the names Wolfe and Montcalm.

James spent his first eleven years in the low-ceilinged, panelled rooms which now contain memorabilia related to his family and career. His victory and death are commemorated in statues and songs, paintings and prints, many of which can be viewed at Quebec House, thanks to the financial support of a large number of Canadian patrons, businesses and individuals alike. Mementoes include Wolfe's travelling canteen, which gives a clear indication of the trials endured by an officer on campaign in the mid-18th century--it contains a cruet and glass decanters. The finely quilted dressing gown, in which Wolfe's body was returned to England from Quebec, can also be viewed at Quebec House.

The Tudor stable block located on the other side of the walled garden houses an exhibition of the 1759 Capture of Quebec, "one event in the Seven Years War from 1756 to 1763 between Britain (and Prussia) and France (Spain and Austria)".

Date of Our Last Visit: July 2003