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Show Canada's Oldest House Canada's oldest continuously occupied occu-pied house stands in the little village of Sillery, a suburb of the city of Quebec. The mansion, as It once was, Is nearly three hundred years old, having been built in 1637. The father and founder foun-der of Sillery and its mission was the Commander de Sillery, a great Frenchman French-man of his time, a favorite of the French court and for a long time a leading ambassador of the king of France, following which he took holy orders as a Jesuit, and thus became one of the early missionaries to New France. |