Places & Monuments
Churches where they married, monuments that bear their names, heritage houses they built, and the historical maps that recorded their land. Every site listed here still exists today — you can visit them.
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Churches & Parishes
Cathédrale-Basilique Notre-Dame de Québec
Church16 Rue De Buade, Quebec City
Built: First chapel 1633; stone church 1647; rebuilt after fires
National Historic Site; first Minor Basilica in Canada (1874)
Oldest parish in North America (1664). Governors and Bishop Laval buried in the crypt. The site where three ancestor marriages were recorded in iron gall ink that still survives.
Ancestor Connection
Catherine Fièvre married Charles Allaire here (1663). Hélène Desportes married Guillaume Hébert here (1634). Catherine Annennontak married Jean Durand here (1662). Built on Louis Hébert’s original farm.
Source: Parks Canada DFHD #690; biographi.ca
Click to view on mapÉglise Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans
ChurchChemin Royal, Sainte-Famille
Built: Parish founded 1661; current church 1743
Classified heritage building; Site patrimonial de l’Île d’Orléans
Only church in Québec with three belfries on its facade. Oldest twin-tower church in Canada. Surrounded by the largest concentration of French Regime stone houses in the province.
Ancestor Connection
Anne Perrault married Pierre Blais here (12 Oct 1669). Earliest parish on the island — served all settlers before sub-parishes were created.
Source: patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca; tourisme.iledorleans.com
Click to view on mapÉglise Saint-François, Île d’Orléans
ChurchChemin Royal, Saint-François
Built: Parish 1679; stone church c. 1734; rebuilt 1992 after 1988 fire
Classified historic monument
During the Seven Years’ War (1759), British troops used the church as a camp and hospital. A 1759 graffito by British sailor David Chapman was discovered after the 1988 fire.
Ancestor Connection
Françoise Durand and Jacques Baudouin buried here (she d. 15 Sep 1718; he d. 6 Feb 1708). Marriage contract signed here, 24 March 1671 (notary Paul Vachon).
Source: patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca #92870
Click to view on mapÉglise Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans
ChurchChemin Royal, Saint-Jean
Built: Parish 1679; current church 1734–1737; extended 1852
Classified heritage building
Among the ten oldest churches still standing in Québec. Interior by architect Thomas Baillairgé; sculptures by André Paquet; paintings by Antoine Plamondon.
Ancestor Connection
Anne Perrault buried here, 30 June 1688.
Source: patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca #92814
Click to view on mapNotre-Dame de Bracquemont, France
ChurchBracquemont (now Petit-Caux), Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Built: 17th century
Farming village in the Pays de Caux region. Chalk cliffs overlooking the English Channel form the commune’s northern border. 1.6 km east of Dieppe.
Ancestor Connection
Home parish of Françoise Durand (b. c. 1648–1651), Fille du Roi. Daughter of Pierre Durand and Noelle Ancelin.
Source: Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime
Click to view on mapÉglise de L’Ange-Gardien
ChurchL’Ange-Gardien, Capitale-Nationale
Built: First chapel 1670; first church 1674; destroyed by fire 1930
Parish canonically erected 1678 by Bishop Laval
Originally known as Longue-Pointe on Jean Bourdon’s 1641 map. Current church is a replacement after the 1930 fire.
Ancestor Connection
Jeanne Fressel (Fille du Roi) married Étienne Jacob here, 14 October 1670. Marriage contract before notary Becquet. Étienne served as court officer of the seigneurial jurisdiction of Beaupré.
Source: BaladoDécouverte.com; patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca
Click to view on mapÉglise et Presbytère de St-Michel-de-Bellechasse
ChurchSt-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Chaudière-Appalaches
Built: First church 1712–1713; presbytery 1739; current church 1872
Presbytery is one of the oldest in North America
During the 1759 siege, the English army partially burned the church and riddled it with bullet holes. Features a Napoleon Déry organ (1897, 17 stops).
Ancestor Connection
Multiple ancestor lines pass through this parish. The 1739 presbytery is a rare surviving French Regime structure.
Source: plusbeauxvillages.ca; 1000towns.ca
Click to view on mapMonuments & Plaques
Louis Hébert Monument, Parc Montmorency
MonumentRue Port Dauphin, Old Quebec City
Built: Inaugurated 3 September 1918. Sculptor: Alfred Laliberté.
The monument stands on the site of Hébert’s original 1617 farm — the first farm in New France. Names of the original 47 colonists are engraved on the base. The park was also the site of the first Parliament of Lower Canada.
Ancestor Connection
Direct ancestor Louis Hébert shown raising a corn cob to the sky. Wife Marie Rollet depicted holding a book. Son-in-law Guillaume Couillard shown leaning on a cart. All three are Carl’s direct ancestors.
Source: QC Telegraph; ville.quebec.qc.ca; Wander Women Project
Click to view on mapFilles du Roi Commemorative Plaque
MonumentCorner of Saint-Pierre & ruelle de la Place, Maison Barbel, Vieux-Québec
Built: Unveiled 19 June 1999, at a reunion of descendants
Commemorates the roughly 770 Filles du Roi who arrived between 1663 and 1673. Located at Place Royale, the heart of the early colony.
Ancestor Connection
Multiple ancestors were Filles du Roi: Françoise Durand (1670), Catherine Fièvre (1663), Jeanne Fressel (1670), Anne Perrault (1669). About 60% of Québécois descend from them.
Source: patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca #99378; VoiceMap
Click to view on mapMuseums & Archives
Maison de nos Aïeux (House of Our Ancestors)
MuseumSainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans
Genealogy center and museum dedicated to the 300+ founding families of Île d’Orléans. Open to visitors.
Ancestor Connection
Contains records for Baudouin, Blais, Allaire, and other ancestor families.
Source: tourisme.iledorleans.com; bonjourquebec.com
Heritage Houses
Maison Drouin, Sainte-Famille
Heritage HouseSainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans
One of the oldest surviving houses on the island, built in the French Regime. Operates as a heritage site.
Ancestor Connection
Adjacent to the genealogy center. Represents the French Regime domestic architecture that Carl’s ancestors lived in.
Source: Wikipedia — Maison Drouin
Historical Maps
1689 Île d’Orléans Dwelling Map
Historic MapBAnQ (Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec)
Built: 1689, by Robert de Villeneuve
Precise measured map of the Seigneurie of Île d’Orléans. Confirms settlement patterns visible in the census records. Reproductions published by Société de généalogie de Québec (1976).
Ancestor Connection
Shows the exact land concessions of the Baudouin, Blais, and Allaire families. 347 landowner names in long narrow strips from river to island center.
Source: BAnQ; patrimoinequebec.ca; The French-Canadian Genealogist
Champlain’s 1632 Map of New France
Historic MapLibrary and Archives Canada; NYPL; Library of Congress
Built: 1632, by Samuel de Champlain
Largest and most detailed of Champlain’s maps. First to depict the entire Great Lakes network. Published in his final book, Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale.
Ancestor Connection
Shows the Québec settlement where the Hébert family farmed. Drawn during Champlain’s exile after the Kirke brothers’ occupation.
Source: Library and Archives Canada; NYPL Digital Collections