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History of Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada

Journey back in time to Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada

(Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

Visit Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1634 - First Indian Reservation in Canada
  Sillery, (Quebec) became the first Indian reservation in Canada funded by (I)-Noel Brulart de Sillary (1577-1640), but it failed by 1680 due to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1637 - July, 1637 - Jesuits found settlement of baptized Montagnais Indians at Sillery
  
  canadachannel.ca/ todayincanadianhistory/ index.php/ July_(Day_Unknown)
  
  
• 1637 - The Sillery Reserve is cleared and houses built to settle the savages like the French.
  It later would be classified as a total failure. More Frenchmen went native than savages went French.
  
  www.telusplanet.net/ public/ dgarneau/ french12.htm
  
  
• 1652
  Four miles upstream from Kebec, on the Saint Lawrence River, there is the residence of the Jesuit Society, called Saint Joseph where the Algonquin...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1655 - Iroquois vs French
  An Iroquois raid in 1655 and a fire this year finished the Indian reserve experiment at Sillery, and by 1663, French settlers would occupy this land. ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1666 Census - There were 140 people living at Sillery
  
  www.canadiangenealogy.net/ chronicles/ new_france.htm
  
  
• 1676 - The village of Sillery is about a league and a half from Quebek (Quebec) on the St. Lawrence River and is for the Algonkins.
  
  www.telusplanet.net/ public/ dgarneau/ french22.htm
  
  
• 1832 - SILLERY,
  seigniory, in the co. of Quebec, is bounded N.E. by part of St. Ignace and several small grants; S.W. by Gaudarville; in the rear by St. Gabriel; in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1879 - NO BLACK FEVER IN SILLERY
  QUEBEC, Dec. 7. - There is no truth to the rumors of a plague at Sillery. The deaths referred to in last night's dispatches were from typhoid fever.
  New York Herald-Tribune
  New York, New York
  December 8, 1879
  
  
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  On the Road to Sillery
  1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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•  1896 - The First Canadian Novelist
  Mr. J. M. Le Moine, the Canadian litterateur, says that "The History of Emily Montague," published in London by Dodsley, in 1769, was the earliest...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  La Vieille Masion des Jesuites - Sillery, Que. - The Old Jesuit House
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  Academie de Jesus-Marie, Sillery (pres Quebec).
  Postcard
  
• 1906
  Sillery, Sillery Cove, or Saint Colomb, a post-village and parish of Quebec, co. of Quebec, on the N. shore of the St. Lawrence, a short distance...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Sillery
  Sillery, Qué, Town, pop 11 909 (2001c), 12 003 (1996c), 12 519 (1991c), area 6.70 km2, inc 1980, is located along the north shore of the St Lawrence...Read MORE...