Windmill of Pointe-du-Moulin
by Aimelle Ml
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Windmill of Pointe-du-Moulin
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Aimelle Ml
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Photograph - Photography
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The highlight of Pointe-du-Moulin Park is its magnificent windmill with its functional vanes or sails. It is one of only two functional mills out of the remaining 18 that still exist in Qu�bec.
In 1672, Intendant Jean Talon granted the Island of �le-Perrot as a seigneury to the then Governor of Montreal, Fran�ois-Marie Perrot. Governor Perrot established a fur trading post in front of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and the domain farm at the Grande Anse, close to the area now called Pointe-du-Domaine. In 1684, the seigneury was sold to Charles LeMoyne, and afterwards, in 1703, to Joseph Trottier also known as Desruisseaux and his wife Fran�oise Cuillerier who moved the seigneurial domain to the Pointe-du-Domaine. They constructed the manor in 1705 and the windmill in 1707-08.
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February 3rd, 2012
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