{"id":5327,"date":"2018-06-08T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/uncategorized\/acquisition-of-the-seigneury-of-chateauguay\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:26:23","slug":"acquisition-of-the-seigneury-of-chateauguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/acquisition-of-the-seigneury-of-chateauguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquisition of the Seigneury of Ch\u00e2teauguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 8, 1765, fifteen days after the fire of the General Hospital of Montreal, Marguerite d&#8217;Youville signed, in the name and for the benefit of the poor of the hospital, the contract which assured her the definitive ownership of the Seigneury of Ch\u00e2teauguay.<\/p>\n<p>With a surface area of six by nine miles, the seigneury was bounded on the north by the St. Lawrence River and Lake Saint-Louis; on the south by Beauharnois; on the east by Saut Saint-Louis and Lasalle; and on the west by the Ch\u00e2teauguay River. It also included Saint-Bernard Island, \u00cele de la Paix, \u00cele aux Pins and \u00cele Ste-Genevi\u00e8ve.<\/p>\n<p>Marguerite d&#8217;Youville bought these lands from Mademoiselle de Lanoue (who had been living as a lodger at the General Hospital since 1748) in order to provide resources and income for her work.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its acquisition by Mother d&#8217;Youville, there was already a wooden seigneurial house, a wooden stable, a barn and a windmill on St-Bernard Island.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" src=\"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/L003-A7_acte-vente_1765_p.1-700x1065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ASGM L003, A, 7, Fonds de la Seigneurie de Ch\u00e2teauguay, deed of sale, June 8, 1765, extract<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 8, 1765, fifteen days after the fire of the General Hospital of Montreal, Marguerite d&#8217;Youville signed, in the name and for the benefit of the poor of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}