Anse au Foulon (English:Fuller's Handle) is a smallcove inQuebec, Canada. It was located about one and one-half miles aboveQuebec City, in the formerly independent town ofSillery,[1][2][3] until 1 January 2002, as part of the2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec. Since that date, Anse au Foulon and Sillery (reconstituted as a neighbourhood (quartier)) have been officially located in Quebec City.
The cove was known and referred to asWolfe's Cove by Sillery's once-sizableEnglish-speaking population. The first written reference to this appellation pertains to the event which took place at the cove and its cliff in 1759.[3][4]
On the night of 12 September 1759, and early morning hours on the 13th,[3][5]British forces commanded byJames Wolfe landed at Anse au Foulon, prior to proceeding to thePlains of Abraham, where theyengaged and defeated theFrench forces commanded by theMarquis de Montcalm, resulting in the occupation ofQuebec City, and the subsequent signing of theTreaty of Paris (1763). The treaty markedGreat Britain's victory over France and Spain, during theSeven Years' War, and stipulated France's ceding ofNew France east of theMississippi River to Great Britain.
Theetymology of thetoponym originates from afulling mill (French:foulon) that theSéminaire de Québec built in 1710, at the base of the cliff which met the cove.[2][3][6] The mill's workers traveled on a path that became known as Foulon path (chemin du Foulon), as well as its plural (des Foulons).[2] Despite the closure of the mill in 1734, the toponym of Foulon persisted.[2] It was not until 1924, that thetown of Sillery adopted the name of chemin du Foulon (also referred to a Cove Road) for the path turned into road.
On 5 December 1968, theCommission de toponymie du Québec recognizedWolfe's Cove as the topographic feature's official name;[7] however, this decision was superseded on 17 August 1978, when the commission recognized Anse au Foulon as the official name.[8][6]
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