Notre-Dame-des-Anges Seigniory

Fields to cultivate

From 1652 onward, the Jesuits owned the Notre-Dame-des-Anges seigniory. This territory, bordered by the Saint-Michel brook in the west and the Beauport river in the east, corresponded to the one ceded to them in 1626 by Henri de Lévy, viceroy of New-France. Even if the Jesuits do not inhabited within the limits of their seigniory then, they wished to preserve it. Many parcels were conceded and mills built. The Notre-Dame-des-Anges barn, located at the actual Cartier-Brébeuf national historic site, maintained its territorial integrity and agricultural vocation until 1855.

Enterprises and constructions

Since 1688 however, the industrial activity developed in its vicinity with the establishment of a brickyard and the addition, a few years later, of a tannery and a pottery. In the 19th century, shipyards multiplied in the area along the St.Charles River. Around 1850, manufacturers rented parcels of Notre-Dame-des-Anges. Thereafter, sawmills were exploited for a few years and were replaced by the Rochette brickyard by the end of the century. In 1948, the site became the Arsenault dump and used as a snow deposit ten years later until restoration work rehabilitated the place into Cartier-Brébeuf National historic site of Canada.