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BONSECOURS DINNING
ROOM
The main room of the house is the restaurant
Bonsecours with its large silk draped window
and its impressive cooper and bronze victorian
chandelier, of gas in olden days.
In the center we find comfortable leather padded
english "Chesterfields" and Louis
XIII tapestry arm chairs where it is possible
to have a cocktail in front of the imposing
fireplace. The tables are arranged all around
to preserve a great sense of intimacy to our
guests. The big Victorian buffet laden with
silver recalls Montreal's opulence of XIX'th
century. The game trophy's Elk, mountain goat
and Roe deer a reminder of heroic huntings of
the period in Canada.
An old photo of Jean-Baptiste Groleau, born
in 1854, one of the last hunters, great grandfather
of Ronald Dravigne, an eloquent testament. The
impressing photo of the mariage of Arthur-Pierre
Beaupré and Séraphine Perrin,
grand parents of Gaëtan B. Trottier, was
taken in New York in 1898 on their honeymoon.
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