"Estevan Lodge and its gardens stand out on a bold cliff overhanging the St. Lawrence, whence they look away to its northern shore. The whole property, straggling out to all points of the compass, with the gardens at its heart, forms part of a grant given under the hand of the Marquis de Denonville, "Gouverneur et Lieutenant-General pour le Roy au Canada" in 1689 to one, Sieur François Pachat, and described in the first lines of the deed as "Fief de la Rivière Metis dans sa devanture sur le Fleuve St. Laurent jusqu'à une lieue de profondeur et une lieue de terre de front." Such then, very briefly is something of the outer setting of the gardens where adventuring with Lilies has gone on since 1931." Elsie Reford, "Lilies at Estevan Lodge, Grand Métis, Province of Quebec, Canada", 1939