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 PROM " HOME JOURNAL," FOR OCTOBER, 1894 
 
 BY 
 
 HENRY FRY 
 
 0/ Sweetsburg, late of Quebec 
 
 QUEBEC : 
 General Printing Office of A. COTI^ & Co. 
 
 1894 
 
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 Sir N. F. BELLEAU 
 
 g DISTINGUISHED French Cana- 
 dian, whose kindly face has 
 been familiar in the streets of Quebec 
 for more than three-fourths of a century, 
 passed peacefully away, full of years 
 and honors, on Friday, the 14th Sep- 
 
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 tember, 1894, in the person of Sir 
 RsfGisse: Woriunoii ©effeiQia, K. C. 
 M. G. His second name was fully 
 justified, by his singularly fortunate 
 career. 
 
 For though he was not a statesman, 
 nor a financier, nor a man of marked 
 ability or of wide culture, yet by his 
 high character and genial nature, he 
 attained to some of the highest posi- 
 tions open to British subjects in Ca- 
 nada, and filled them with honor and 
 distinction. 
 
 The son of a Sainte - Foi farmer, 
 Gabriel Belleau, by Marie de Kotscha 
 Hamel, his wife, Narcisse was born at 
 Quebec, on the 20th October, 1808, 
 and was thus in his 86th yean 
 
Educated at the Quebec Seminary, 
 he was called to the bar of Lower 
 Canada, in 1832, where he enjoyed a 
 lucrative practice and was elected 
 ddtonniei^ of the district of Quebec, in 
 1857 and 1858, and was made Q. C. 
 in 1854. 
 
 In 1847, he was elected as an alder- 
 man of the City, and, in 1850, became 
 Mayor, holding that office for 4 years, 
 during which the Quebec Water- works 
 were built, bringing fresh water from 
 Lake Saint-Charles. In commemora- 
 tion of the event, his portrait was 
 painted and placed in the City hall, 
 where it may still be seen. He was also, 
 for a time. President of the projected 
 North Shore Railway. 
 
In 1849, he was elected a director 
 of the Quebec Bank, was re-elected 
 for a period of no less than 44 years, 
 retiring only in 1893. 
 
 In the same year, he entered the 
 field of politics, contesting unsuccess- 
 fully the seat for Portneuf, in the Ca- 
 nadian House of Assembly, against the 
 late Antoine-Juchereau Duchesnay. 
 In October, I852, however, he was 
 
 called by Royal Mandamus to the 
 Legislative Council of Canada, and on 
 
 the 26th November, 1857, '*^^s elected 
 
 Speaker, the duties of which office he 
 
 continued to discharge until the ist of 
 
 August, 1858, when, on the accession 
 
 of the Brown- Dorion administration 
 to power, he retired. Six days after- 
 
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 wards, on the resignation of this short- 
 lived Government, he was re-installed 
 in his former office, which he held un- 
 til the 20th March, 1862. On the 
 2 7th of the same month, he was ap- 
 pointed Minister of Agriculture, which 
 position he held until the 20th May 
 following, when the Cartier-Macdonald 
 Government was defeated, and retired. 
 While holding the office of Speaker, 
 the Prince of Wales visited Canada, 
 and, on the 15th August, i860, M' 
 Belleau read the Address of the Le- 
 gislative Council to His Royal High- 
 ness. After reading his reply, the 
 Prince, on behalf of the Queen, knighted 
 M' Belleau, & from that time, he was 
 always spoken of as " Sir Narcisse." 
 
In 1865, Sir Etienne- Pascal Tach6, 
 the Premier of the coalition Govern- 
 ment, died ; and the Government was 
 seriously embarassed in selecting a 
 successor. As the two parties in the 
 Government could not agree, Sir Nar- 
 tisse was eventually chosen as a com- 
 promise, he being looked upon as an 
 impartial and non partisan man. The 
 Confederation of the Provinces into 
 the Great Dominion occurred on the 
 ist July, 1867, when Sir Narcisse was 
 appointed first Lieutenant-Governor 
 of the Province of Quebec, an office 
 which he filled for five years with credit 
 and dignity, and, on the completion of 
 his term, declined a seat in the Senate, 
 living thereafter a quiet, unostenta- 
 
tious life, respected by all. In 1879, 
 in the presence of the Marquis of 
 Lome and the Princess Louise, he was 
 created K. C. M. G. 
 
 Sir Narcisse could never get over his 
 early economical habits and, althouo-h 
 he had the magnificent domain of 
 Spencer Wood at his disposal, while 
 T .ieutenant-Governor, he preferred to 
 reside in his unpretentious house in 
 Saint-Louis street. He thus amassed 
 a considerable fortune, variously estim- 
 ated at from $200,000 to $300,000, 
 and proving what has been so often 
 observed, that fortune oftener results 
 from what a man spends, than from 
 what he earns. 
 
 In 1835, he married Marie- Reine- 
 
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 Josephte, daughter of the late Louis 
 Gauvreau, who was formerly a member 
 of the Legislative Assembly. She 
 died some lo years ago, childless, and 
 Sir Narcisse has left his fortune to 
 his nephew, M' A. G. Belleau. 
 
 I first met Sir Narcisse when con- 
 ducting the opposition to a bill in the 
 Legislative Council, empowering the 
 Quebec Harbor Commissioners to im- 
 pose a tax upon shipping, about 1863, 
 but, in December, 1864, I accepted a 
 seat at the board of the Quebec Bank, 
 and sat with him there for nearly 1 3 
 years. 
 
 On his appointment as Lieutenant- 
 Governor, in 1867, he arrived from 
 Montreal in the steamboat, and a great 
 
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 crowd awaited him on the wharf. I 
 was among the crowd and Sir Narcisse 
 selected the late Abraham Hamel, as 
 representing the French, and myself as 
 representing the English, to escort him 
 to his hotel. Shortly after, I was elected 
 President of the Board of Trade, and 
 re-elected for 3 years, so it happened 
 that Sir Narcisse looked upon me as a 
 representative English merchant, and 
 bestowed on me repeated acts of kind- 
 ness, which I can never forget. I often 
 dined with him at the Stadacona Club, 
 Sainte-Anne street, and on one occa- 
 sion at Spencer Wood, where I met 
 Prince Arthur, the Governor General 
 (lord Lisgar), General McNeill and 
 the Dominion Cabinet. Always digni- 
 
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 fied and extremely courteous, there 
 was one feature of his character which 
 I always admired. He persisted in 
 looking on the bright side of human 
 nature, refused to believe in the pos- 
 sibility of any man doing wrong, until 
 convinced by the clearest evidence. 
 He will long be remembered as a kind- 
 hearted, genial specimen of the old 
 French Canadian regime, which, while 
 not displaying the energy or force of 
 the Anglo-Canadian, had many fine 
 qualities which will be looked for in 
 vain amongst the great majority of the 
 modern ** go-ahead trading class. " 
 
 Sweetsburg, 30th September, 1894.