Boucher-De Niverville Manor, Manor house in Trois-Rivières, Canada

The Boucher-De Niverville Manor is a French Colonial-style house on Bonaventure Street in Trois-Rivières built with thick stone walls and a steeply pitched roof typical of early French colonial dwellings. The structure preserves original features and interior spaces from its era of construction.

Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie, a fur trader, built a two-storey house here around 1668, probably in timber framing, outside the town. In 1729 François Chastelain, an officer of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, replaced the timber with masonry and lengthened the house to its present form. It passed in 1761 to his daughter Marie-Josephte and her husband Joseph-Claude Boucher de Niverville, and was classified a heritage building on 30 March 1960.

The manor takes its name from Joseph-Claude Boucher de Niverville, who inherited it in 1761 through his wife Marie-Josephte Chastelain; he died in 1804 as the last Knight of Saint-Louis to die in Canada. Run together with the Boréalis museum, the house holds an exhibition on bourgeois life in New France.

The manor is centrally located in Trois-Rivières and can be reached at 819-372-4531 or manoirdeniverville@v3r.net to arrange visits. Tours are offered in French and English, though accessibility for visitors with mobility needs is limited to certain areas of the building.

Students from College Lafleche's History and Civilization Program organize and maintain an archaeological exhibition within the manor's stone walls. This educational partnership brings fresh research and perspective to the artifacts discovered on the property.