STREET VIEWS: The story behind Rue Le Mercier
Published: March 24, 2021

Photo: Screenshot from Google Maps
Rue Le Mercier is a short residential dead-end street in Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy that runs west off Rue Leonard toward Boulevard du Versant-Nord.
This street in the Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy district of Quebec City is named after François-Marc-Antoine Le Mercier (1722-1798), a French artillery officer who first arrived in Canada in 1740 as a cadet in the colonial regular troops. In 1743, after studying engineering and gunnery, he was appointed second ensign and attached to the service of the commissary of artillery.