Gun Carriage Store (Quebec City, Quebec)

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Also known as Building 20, the Gun Carriage Store was built in 1814. This hangar is a stone building composed of four 14.9 meters (49-foot) sections each with five double doors and a dormer in its centre, and a final 4.8 meters (16-foot) section. The building follows the natural slope of the land and has a stepped profile.

HERITAGE VALUE
The Gun Carriage Store is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations, and its architectural and environmental values.

The Gun Carriage Store is a very good example of a structure associated with the colonial defence system of the City of Québec, then capital of Canada, as the seat of the government and military administration. The construction of the hangar was initiated during the war of 1812 against the United States. Originally constructed as a storehouse, it was occupied by the British Army until the garrison’s departure in 1871. Subsequently, the Dominion Arsenal shared the building with the Québec Electric Company. When this company moved several years later, the federal cartridge factory set up a caretaker’s house there. The Arsenal continued to own the building until the 1960s.