Their Landing Place At Sillery
Was Selected By Major Robert Stobo, Who Had, In May, 1759, Escaped From A
French Prison In Quebec, And Joined His Countrymen, The English, At
Louisbourg, From Whence He Took Ship Again To Meet Admiral Saunders' Fleet
At Quebec.
The tourist next drives past Thornhill, for years owned by
Arch.
Campbell, Esq., P.S.C., Sir Francis Hincks' old home when Premier to
Lord Elgin. Opposite appear the leafy glades of Spencer Wood, so grateful
a summer retreat, that Lord Elgin used to say, "There he not only loved to
live, but would like to rest his bones." Next comes Spencer Grange, the
seat of J. M. LeMoine, Esq.; then Woodfield, the homestead, of the Hon.
Wm. Sheppard [152] in 1847, later on of Messrs. John Lawson and Jas Gibb.
[153] Facing the Woodfield property, on the Gomin Road, are visible the
extensive vineries and peach houses of Hon. Geo. Okill Stuart, Judge of
the Vice-Admiralty Court. The eye next dwells on the rustic church of St.
Michael, embowered in evergreens. This handsome little temple of worship
where the Governors of Canada usually attended, when living at Spencer
Wood, contain several memorial window. Southwards looms out, at Sous-
les-Bois, the stately convent of Jesus-Marie; on the edge of the bank,
to the south-east, at Pointe-a-Pizeau, stands the R. C. Church of St.
Colomb de Sillery, in a most commanding position; on the Sillery heights,
north-west of the Church of St. Michael, the late Bishop George J.
Mountain owned a delightful summer retreat, recently sold to Albert H.
Furniss, Esq.; then you meet with villas innumerable - one of the most
conspicuous is Benmore House, Col.
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