Located just west of Québec City, the town of Sillery had a distinctive personality in the region in the early 19th century. It lies along a cliff where British aristocrats made their home. At the foot of the cliff is a cove that was surrounded by work sites at the time. Every year, workers, mostly French and Irish, readied thousands of logs for export. Sillery also had many major shipbuilding sites. Discover this town through the artworks of the period!
James Pattison Cockburn
A building in the distance dominates Cape Diamant in this watercolour by Cockburn. It is the Citadel, which was built in 1831. It was Champlain who first thought of such a stronghold in 1630, but the project was abandoned at that time for lack of funds. Since Québec City’s earliest days, the cape has also been a social boundary. It separates the uptown elite from the Lower Town’s working class.
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