Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 15

A History of Martello Towers in the Defence of British North America, 1796-1871

by Ivan J. Saunders

Appendix I. Tower No. 2, Quebec City

Built: 1808-10
Armed: 1810
Disarmed: after 1869 Demolished: (extant. 1972)
Facing material: sandstone ashlar masonry
Diameter: 56 ft.
Height: 33 ft.
Wall thickness: 6 ft. to 11 ft.
Parapet height: approximately 4 ft. to 6 ft. Storeys: two
Purpose: to defend the main Quebec works against an attack across the Plains of Abraham. To serve as a keep to a line of emergency field works.
N.B.: See Appendix J.

34 Tower No. 2, Quebec, 1971. (Photograph by author.)

35 Tower No. 2, Quebec, view, section and floor plans, 1823. (Public Archives of Canada.)

36 Tower No. 2, Quebec, section and barrack floor plan, 1865. (Public Archives of Canada.)

37 Tower No. 2, Quebec, section and barrack floor plan, 1865. (Public Archives of Canada.)