As they approached Château Ramezay – the former residence of an early eighteenth-century governor – Chris shouted ahead to Ansel, “Turn right. Turn right.” That’s when another peril was spotted. Soon after Claude de Ramezay became Montreal’s governor (a position he held from 1704 until 1724), he commissioned this grand residence on Notre-Dame Street. Several notable occupants have included a fur-trading company, headquarters for Canada’s Continental Army, the residence of British governors, a medical school and now a museum with over 30,000 items.
