|The Coves of Sillery|
Some of the coves names were O'Brien's Cove, New London Cove, Union Cove, Dobel's Cove, Sillery Cove, Bower's Cove, Point pizeau Cove, St. Michaels Cove, Woodfield Cove, Harbor Cove, Spencer Cove, and Wolfe's Cove where my maternal great-grandfather, George Burns, worked as a stevedore for John Roche.
Lumber barons were to name a few, Sheppard, Gibb, Gilmour, Price, Sharples, Dobell, Burstall, and Roche.
Managers were, Fitzpatrick, McInenly, Nolan, Bogue, Timmony, O'Connell, Bowen and many more.
Spencer's Cove, between Wolfe's and Woodfields Cove had 75 houses and work for 100 men. 1852 census states 62% Irish 34% French.
Woodfields Cove had work for 100 men. 1852 census states 56% Irish 39% French.
St. Michael's Cove has a good number of hands in the summer, generally speaking there are few homes, thinly inhabited but comfortable. 1852 census states 94% Irish 4% French.
McInenly Hill Cove aka Sillery Hill boasts the same numbers.
Wolfe's Cove of 810 souls, 625 were Irish.
Many of the workers may have belonged to the Quebec Ship Laborers Benevolent Society established in 1852.
|Houses in Sillery - 1863|
Quebec City, where the Irish dominated the work on the timber wharves.