[Genealogy of the "Maison des Cloutier"]
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The "maison des Cloutier" in Château-Richer This old rustic residence is certainly one of the finest specimens of the typical canadian house that can be found in the Québec region. Nestled into the bottom of the cliff on the Beaupré coast at the extreme northeast limits of Château-Richer it was the main house on what was known as the "Cloutier farm" that was in the family since 1676 when Jean Cloutier the III bought it from Nicolas Vérieul who had obtained it from Pierre Gagnon. Since that time it was always owned by successive generations of Cloutier being handed down from father to son for some 289 years. In 1965, Adélard Cloutier, the last owner by that name decided to sell since there was no successor to continue to operate the farm and so passed into the hands of a Mr. Rousseau who restored this three hundred year old house, replacing the roof and the foundations in the hopes that it will last for another three hundred years. For many years it has been "l'Auberge de la Fine Gueule", a restaurant specializing in good old-fashioned canadian cooking . |
