For day nine of the marathon, let me show you a sketch I actually did a few days previously.
It was Urban Sketchers Montreal’s monthly meetup, and they’d chosen the Atwater metro as the launching point. This gave us a chance to head to a really neat spot.
Le Manoir Souvenir is a 200 year old house, still standing in an alley off of Rue du Souvenir, which is very easy to find by walking south from the Atwater metro at Cabot Square. Or, you can do what we did and scoot down a pathway that goes behind the Maison Joseph-Wilfrid Antoine-Raymond Masson House. (Say that three times fast!)
Check your google maps for all this – there are map pins for these historic houses. They look like little Rooks. (The castle from a chess set, not the crow type bird :)
Héritage Montréal has this to say about the house:
The house was built in 1830 for Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel, a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician who represented the riding of Chambly in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1820 to 1834 and who served on the Executive Council of Lower Canada from 1837 to 1841.
Originally built on 240 acres of land, it is one of the first houses in this area, still little affected by the acceleration of urban development during the 19th century.
