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Sillery Heritage Site
Native name
French: Site patrimonial de Sillery
Arrondissement historique de Sillery
View of Saint-Michel de Sillery Church, from a location near Government House
Type Heritage District
Etymology Noël Brûlart de Sillery
Location
Settled 1637; 387 years ago (1637)
Founder
  • Noël Brûlart de Sillery (financier)
  • Jesuits
Built for
Original use Saint-Joseph Mission of Sillery — Jesuit mission to members of the First Nations
Governing body
  • Ministry of Culture and Communications
  • City of Quebec
    (effective 9 June 2017)
Official name: Site patrimonial de Sillery
Type Patrimoine immobilier
(Heritage immovable property)
Designated 5 February 1964
Reference no. 93522
Former name Arrondissement historique de Sillery
Recognition statute Loi sur les biens culturels (Cultural Property Act)
Bois-de-Coulonge Park 17
Bois-de-Coulonge Park

The Sillery Heritage Site (French: site patrimonial de Sillery), formerly known as the Sillery Historic District (French: arrondissement historique de Sillery), is a territory containing historic residential and institutional properties, as well as woodlands, located in the Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge borough of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is one of four heritage sites which are located in the City of Quebec. Having been called the "cradle of the Quebec nation," it includes approximately 350 buildings situated on a linear 3.5 kilometres (2.175 miles) wide landscape, which is alongside, as well as an integral part of the coast of the Saint Lawrence River. The built environment was constructed in all of the time periods, including and following the foundation of New France (French: Nouvelle-France).

Amongst the district's properties are the early 18th century Jesuit House of Sillery (French: maison des Jésuites-de-Sillery), 19th century workers' homes on Foulon Road (French: chemin du Foulon (also known during this time period by the English name Cove Road)) and the Sillery coast (near Saint-Michel of Sillery Church (French: église Saint-Michel de Sillery), villas built by wood barons in the 19th century, and institutional properties built at the turn of the 20th century.

Heritage designation began as early as 1929, when the Jesuit House was assigned protective status. The entire territory was officially recognized as a heritage site by the Government of Quebec (French: Gouvernement du Québec) on 5 February 1964. The heritage site was placed on the Parks Canada's administered Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP; (French: Répertoire canadien des lieux patrimoniaux), also known as Canada's Historic Places, on 22 June 2006. The site's provincial heritage registry listing includes five categorical groups of associated elements: 627 heritage immovable / real property assets, nine associated movable heritage objects, 18 related commemorative plaques, two associated groups, and three associated people.

While recognizing the visionary action taken by Quebec's Ministry of Culture (French: ministère de la Culture), in the 1960s, by conferring historic status upon the district to protect it from suburban developers, the National Trust for Canada (French: Fiducie nationale du Canada), a registered charity, placed the Sillery Historic District on its Top 10 Endangered Places list (French: Palmarès des 10 sites les plus menacés), in the early 2010s, due to the approval of condominium developments which encroached upon historic religious properties in the district. In 2015, the City of Quebec announced that it would encourage any future developers to restore historic religious structures which were no longer owned by their former communities, in exchange for the allowance to undertake development on the surrounding lands. The city argued that some development was necessary to provide tax revenue in order to sustain the preservation of the historic district. The Trust has subsequently removed the Sillery Historic District from its endangered list, and archived its status as a past listing, amongst other properties, spread across all of Canada's provinces and territories.

Historic properties located on the heritage site

Partial List of Properties

Name Address Coordinates
(links to map & photo sources)
Name
George William Usborne House. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Maison George-William-Usborne
2316, chemin du Foulon
46°46′04″N 71°15′28″W / 46.7678°N 71.25773°W / 46.7678; -71.25773 French: maison George-William-Usborne
Jesuit House of Sillery. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Maison des Jésuites de Sillery site
2320, chemin du Foulon
46°46′07″N 71°15′29″W / 46.768523°N 71.258053°W / 46.768523; -71.258053 French: maison des Jésuites-de-Sillery
Villa Bagatelle (Spencer Cottage)
Villa Bagatelle-2-Québec
1563, chemin Saint-Louis
46°47′18″N 71°14′48″W / 46.788278°N 71.24675°W / 46.788278; -71.24675
Saint-Patrick Cemetery
St-Patrick Cemetery Qc 11
1601, chemin Saint-Louis
46°47′08″N 71°14′47″W / 46.78547°N 71.2465°W / 46.78547; -71.2465 French: cimetière Saint-Patrick
Mount Hermon Cemetery
Mount Hermon Cemetery Qc 20
1801, chemin Saint-Louis
46°46′51″N 71°14′50″W / 46.78085°N 71.247197°W / 46.78085; -71.247197 French: cimetière Mount Hermon
Cataraqui Estate. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Domaine Cataraqui-1-Québec
2141, chemin Saint-Louis
46°46′23″N 71°15′11″W / 46.77311°N 71.25319°W / 46.77311; -71.25319 French: domaine Cataraqui
Villa Beauvoir
Villa Beauvoir, 2315 chemin Saint-Louis, Québec — façade sud vue du sud-est
2315, chemin Saint-Louis
46°46′11″N 71°15′39″W / 46.769843°N 71.26086°W / 46.769843; -71.26086
Kilmarnock Manor, residence of John MacNider
ManoirKilmarnock1
1479A, rue Negabamat
46°46′04″N 71°15′52″W / 46.767678°N 71.264512°W / 46.767678; -71.264512 French: manoir Kilmarnock
Bois-de-Coulonge Park (Spencer Wood / Government House)
Québec-Bois de Coulonge-fleuve
1215, Grande Allée Ouest
46°47′20″N 71°14′24″W / 46.788889°N 71.24°W / 46.788889; -71.24 French: parc du Bois-de-Coulonge
Saint-Michel de Sillery Church
Statue de Marie-Immaculée et vue du pont de Québec
Views of the Quebec Bridge and statue of the Virgin Mary
1735, côte de Sillery
46°46′28″N 71°14′39″W / 46.774334°N 71.244144°W / 46.774334; -71.244144 French: église Saint-Michel de Sillery
  • Canadian Montmartre and Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart (French: Montmartre Canadien et Sanctuaire du Sacré-Cœur), 1669, chemin Saint-Louis
  • Villa Clermont, 2211, chemin Saint-Louis
  • Bignell House (French: maison Bignell), 1524, côte à Gignac
  • Timmony House (French: maison Timmony), 2014, rue Louis-H. Lafontaine

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