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Then follows a long interval, which to me is a blank, 

 as I know nothing of the vicissitudes through which 

 this property passed, until it came in the possession of 

 the Intendant Bigot, or rather of his favorite, Madame 

 Angelique de Pdan ; nor can I fiud out who occupied 

 it between the years 1759 and 1796; when this build- 

 ing was, on 6th September, 1796, burnt down. 



On 3rd January, 1803. (There seems to be a misprint 

 in these figures. Mrs. Elmsley became a widow only 

 on 29th April, 1805, when her late husband, the Hon. 

 John Elmsley, Chief Justice and President of the 

 Legislative Council and member of the Executive 

 Council, expired at Montreal much regretted. Quebec 

 Mercury of 4th May, 1805), Mrs. Widow Elmsley 

 acquired this property from Hon. James Monk, and on 

 the 5th April, 1811 ; she sold it by her procurator, Hon. 

 John Hale, to Deputy Commissary-General Edward 

 Couch, representing the English Government. It con- 

 sisted of the grounds already described, a two story 

 stone building, fronting on St. Louis street, together 

 with a stable and coach-house in rear. 



The following year, 1812, Lt.-Col. Sheaf, K. E., acting 

 under instructions from England, built on the south 

 west corner of the property the " Garrison Hospital," 

 (until lately occupied as the District Court House, since 

 the conflagration of the latter on 1st February, 1871,) 

 for the use of the troops quartered in Quebec, and 

 especially for that of the 44th Eegiment, then stationed 

 here. The stable and coach-house were subsequently 

 replaced by the two small buildings used respectively 

 as offices for the Quarter-Master General and for the 

 Purveyor. 



The main building was, as you know, occupied by 

 the British Eegiments as " officers' quarters " until 

 1871, and on the following May, I was placed in charge 

 of it and have occupied quarters there ever since ; and 

 yet, neither the beautiful Angelique, nor the terrible 

 La Corriveau have ever come back to inform us whether,. 



