Events | Exhibitions

Permanent Exhibition

The permanent exhibition Estevan Lodge: A Vacation Haven presents a selection of objects from the daily life of Elsie Reford and photographs taken by her husband, Robert Wilson Reford. This exhibition illustrates the history of the Villa and its occupants and allows visitors a glimpse into the lives they led, not only of the owners but also the servants, fishing guides and gardeners.

Temporary Exhibitions

Video Room
Artist Richard Fortin
From June 4 to July 17, 2011
Rimouski artist Richard Fortin will be showing his paintings of gardens and landscapes in Estevan Lodge from June 4 to July 17. Well-known for his paintings of seascapes along the St. Lawrence near Pointe-au-Père and his exhibitions throughout the region, he will bring his passion for painting to the gardens where his work will be on view and for sale in the video room.

Thérèse Beaulieu-Roy Room
Après Strand
Artist: Bertrand Carrière
From June 19, 2011
The exhibition room in Estevan Lodge will host Après Strand Bertrand Carrière, an exhibition of images by photographer Bertrand Carrière. Prepared in collaboration with the Musée réginal de Rimouski and its director Franck Michel, the exhibition will feature 30 photograps taken by Bertrand Carrière over the summer of 2010. Bertrand Carrière followed in the footsteps of American photographer Paul Strand whose photographs of the Gaspé Peninsula taken in the 1926 and 1936 rank among his best work. Bertrand Carrière’s photographs will be on exhibit from June 19 in the Thérèse Beaulieu Roy Room in Estevan Lodge.

Le Devoir, Arts visuels - Sur la route 132
Canadian Art - Bertrand Carrière: Crossing the Strand 

Rooms of Estevan Lodge
The Temple of Flora
The Temple of Flora is the fruit of the rich imagination of Robert Thornton (1768-1837), an English doctor and naturalist. In 1797, after inheriting a family fortune, Thornton gave up the practice of medicine to devote himself entirely to publishing this work. His ambition was to publish a botany book featuring nearly 90 plates and of better quality than any existing work in the field.

Thornton called on eminent painters specialized in botanical illustration such as Peter Henderson, Philip Reinagle or Abraham Pether, and he teamed up with the best engravers in London. The first engravings of The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus were published in 1799; the entire set of thirty-two plates was completed in 1807.