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(7t«) 3M-SM9-FW i Dfetorical Souvenir AND :i6ook of tbe it^ageante OF THE 300tb Hnniversar^ of tbe Jounbina of (Sluebec, tbe Hncient Capital of Canaba 3nVs Uwenttetb to Ubitts first, 'nineteen 1)un&reD anb £idbt ISSUED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELDS COMMISSION INO DOMB INTO A BC ' ' -T TKB CAUBRIDQK OORPORA JN LIMITED MONTREAL i] COPYRIGHT EfOtnd aeeording f Act tf ParUamenl of Canada, by lh» Cambridgt Corporation, Limiud, in Ih* offic* a/ lh» Uiniilm- •/ Aaru^iUm*, in iJu yar 1008. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G. Representing His Majesty the King at the Tercentenary Celebration Historical Introduction Ateendito ad petram unda exeui estij. PtE^^rSjkrfSi.li."' JS^""*' "^""^ ">™ toward. arel».Il^' '^^"■f'ring the virtu« and the vakSr Xh I. At the moment when Columbus returned from his mnr SUDW* If Spain enjoyed an advantageTtKirt '^"l«f OUU 0060 •-£ * HUtorical Introduction Whether fact or fable, these legends prove the activity of French seamen in an age when Columbus and Cabot were pomtiM Europe the way to a new hemisphere. Sprung from the Vikings, each Norman of Dieppe and Honfleur sailed out on the swan s path with a sest and confidence Thich he owed to his ancestry. Farther south the Bretons had for centuries been dnven to the sea by the very law of their existence. Even below the mouth of the Loire there were great harbours: La KocheUe, the stronghold of the Huguenots; Brouagc, the home of Champlain, and Bayonne, the chief depot of the Basque fur traders. ^ ri .Under orders from Francis I, Veraazano entered the Ciulf of St. Lawrence in 1524. But it is with Jacques Cartier, ten years later, that the French began their serious and per- sistent exploration of Canada. Thus St. Malo becomes linlred inseparably with the annals of that great stream which Cartier followed from the Gulf to the Lachine rapids. Of his three voyages the second is by far the most important. Leaving St. Malo on May 19th, 1535, Cartier, after a stormy voyage, made the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which he had already traversed in the previous season. Entering the river when mnamer was almost over, he did not reach Cape Diamond until the middle of September. Here, at the confluence of the bt. Lawrence and the St. Charles, stood the Indian village of Stadacon6. It was the residence of Donnacona. whom Cartier styles "the lord of Canada." Sixty leagues above Stadacon^ was Hochelaga, occupy- mg some part of the sloping land that lies between Mount Koyal and the St. Lawrence. Having arrived at Hochelaga more than a thousand natives presented themselves before Cartier— men, women and chilcfren who gave him a hearty reception; "showing marvellous joy ; for the men in one band danced, the women on their side and the children on the other, the which brought us store of fish and of their bread nmde of coarse millet, which they cast into our boats in a way that it seemed as if it tumbled from the air." Conducted by these hospitable natives to the summit of Mount Royal, Cartier "had sight and observance of the country or more than thirty leagues round about it." Re- turn! ^ ) Stadacon6 on the 11th of October, he passed there a miserable winter, during which a large part of his band per- ishwl from scurvy. In July, 1536, he was welcomed back to St. Malo as one who had risen from the dead. ■ Historical Introduction II. The difficulties which then attended the creation of « colony add h:,tre to the name of Samuel de Champion The Canadian chxn..te was not baimy, and in the abScHf IlH Srite^eSof^r^ ^°y^^ ^ '?ff«'^ '' ?he rmjgmnt' of trSe riven to ni ' "'''""17 ""^ ^*« f""' b"t the monopoly ol^JthteXTpToT'^^^^^^^^ tjrcter^l was a Stern task to clear the Laui^ntian M^ldemess * . 'ightmg against continued, incessant obstacles rhnm tl^ZZd'^r^''^^^'"'^^-''^''' BeforeTtSkTj navigators had already seS^hldn^r tW^questS • Historical Introduction When Alexander built Alexandria he could draw with the might of a master upon the resources of three continents. When Constantme built Constantinople he brought to it the treasures of the ancient worid— the marbles of Corinth, the serpent of Delphi, and the horses of Lysippus. But from no such origin does the lif > of Canada proceed. Champlain in rearing his simple Abitation at Quebec had no other financial support than could be drawn from the fur trade. His hungry handful of followers subsisted largely upon salt pork and smoiced eels. Everything that was won from the wilderness cost heroism, self-sacrifice and faith. As a warrior Champlain entered the Indian world to aid the Algonquins and the Hurons against the Iroquois. As an explorer he pierced the forests of the Ottawa, passed through Lake Nipissing and threaded the islands of Georgian Bay As a colonizer he made indefatigable efforts to prevent lus out- post at Quebec from sharing the fate of Roberval's earlier settlement at Cap Rouge. For his recruits he did not look to the gaols of France, but to those honest and courageous spirits who would willingly win their new homes by toil and thrift Only less important than Champlain himself is Louis tlebert, the colonist after his own heart, who from a Parisian apothecary liecame the first farmer of Canada. The do^ed perseverance of Champlain can be measured by the fact that twenty years after the founding of the colony Uie total population of New France was seventy-six souls. This was m 1628. That year, England and France being at war, David Kirke cut off the ships bound for Quebec and brought Its inhabitants to the verge of starvation Next summer, when the English appeared before Cape Diamond the famished French had no resource but to surrender. At one blow the work of a lifetime seemed to go down in ruin But It w^ not so. Three years later, when Canada was given* back to France by the Treaty of St. Germain, Champlain re- turned in triumph. And at Quebec he died on Christinas Day, iMo, having created the colony and carried it through its time of greatest doubt. III. Besides the desire of the French crown to hold the Laurentian valley, three motives entered into the upbuilding of Queljec. For Champlain this little settlement was a ha^ o 3 tSd^M^ s 1 1 J! t- X I 8 M UJ «^ ^' 1* t o d I J Th« Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Uuirier. P.C. C.C.M.G. Prime Minincr of Cuwd*. Col. H»nbury.Willi»mi. C.V.O., C.M.C. Milii»ry SKrciary lo Hi» Eiiccll«ncv. JoMph Pop«, Eiq.. C.M.C, I.S.O. Undtr-SacrMiry of Sim*. Historical IntrodueHon 7 from which could be prosecuted the great work of westward exploration. The fur traders found it a convenienrS quarters for traffic with the Indians. It was X a home of nupsionanes and nuns. «• iS^^^^i^I"^ P^«*y led him to wish that the savages might be UDhfted through Christian teaching and eSmpTe Nor did he fook m vain for aid. The spread of the Faitffd ong been among the chief impulses wfcch led catholS nS to promote discovenr and colonization. As missionary^d had moved Queen fsabella in the days of ColumS so7or generations the New World meant to mny a^S^ve Lk L^l^^early Ufe of Canada there is no lar^retemenuKhe The task of converting the Indians feU mainly to the rehgioi^ order^ Of these, the R^collets were broWht by Champlain to (^ebec in 1615. For the next thirty yeirs the country of the Hurons, lying between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, furnished the chief mission field. Ignorant at &^? of Indian speech and customs, the R^coUetsT^k up tSSJ la})our8 with the courage of enthusiasm. In 1625 they were Kin?' '?K J««"t'''\ho8e larger resources enable/thoS La^ wShou'f 7hJn«"^ the mksion on a more comprehensiv^ scale, w ithout the names of the missionary martjTs Canadian history would lose a superb record of heroism. Without he Jesuit house of Notre-bame des Anges the early annals of Quebec would wear a far different as^t. ^ The R^oUets and Jesuits lef* Canada when Kirke captured Quebec. In 1632 the Jesuits reUirned, but T>lnI?^PPT*"'® u°^*^* -"^^^W^t^ ^^ delayed till 1670 coSS th""f '^"i^* years of Champlain's life the jSs conducted the Canadian mission without assistance Re- suming their efforts among the Hurons, they Zn afterward entered upon the still more formidable task ofTnveSX Iroquois. Altogether, three hundred and twenlv Jesuits Jogues was one in whom a certain natural timidity had iThisTe S^Ji^ ^T ""^ '^" ''''^ '^"^^"^ fervour giving up his life to mimstrations among thelroquois he first nuf fered torture at the hands of the MohawE.^ ?S' the oJ?arion of his second residence in the Iroquois countrThe waTpTtS 8 Historical Introduction death by this race, whose savagery no example of goodnea seemed able to assuage. Br6beuf differs from Jogues ii having possessed much greater physical endowments. H< was for many years the central figure of the Huron mission and perished among his converts at the time when they wen overconie by the Iroquois. A Norman by birth and stature he had in their fullest measure the Norman qualities of firm ness and determination. The dreadful story of his tortun and death is a tale of almost incredible anguish endurec without flinching by one whose tenderness of heart coexistec with a soul of iron. No less heroic than the missionaries were the nuns Fired by the same longing to redeem the savages, they gave themselves up to teaching Indian girls and women, nursing the sick in the hospitals, and educating the daughters of the French colonists. The first endowment given to build a hospital in Canada was offered by Richelieu's niece, the Duchesse d'Aiguillon. Almost at the same moment Mme de la Peltrie, a rich and pious lady of Norman birth, resolved to build at Quebec a convent for the Ursulines. Crossing to Canada in 1639 she brought with her M6re Marie de 1 Incarnation. The personality of this famous woman breathes through her letters, and is preserved by the tradition of her abundant good works. Undismayed by the fire of 16J0 which drove the Ursulines from their home, she resisted all counsel to give up the work of her order in Canada and return to France. Combining great practical abiUty with the spirit of the mystic, she plunged without thought of retreat into the toils and privations of the wilderness. When she came to Canada there were less than two hundred people in the whole colony. But she could not have striven harder had a million depended on her care, or had the Indians been grateful instead of per- verse. Seated beneath the ash tree at Quebec where she taught the young savages and lavished on them her affection, Marie de I'lncarnation remains to this day one of the most typical figures from out the old regime. IV, into The scourge of the colonv was the Iroquois. Driven hostibty by Champlain's league with his enemies, they The National Batdeiields Commissi iion I Byron E. Walker, D.C.L. LL.D., F.C.S. Pmidmt Cluinplun Socictr Sir Ceorte Dmnunond. IC.C.M.G. Hon L A. Tuehtntu. K.C. J. M. Courtn«y— HonTrti H. J. J. B. Chouinard Jwnl Stcnury A. 0. Doufhly. C.M.C. - Joint Sccrcury Historical Int udum 9 descended hke panthers upon e^ y settlement that fringed the Richeheu or the St. Lawrence. Tne scalping knife Ind the tomahawk were not their v— st weapons. The captive whom they gave over to the tor .e suffered everything that It IS possible for mortal to endure. Thus for ninety vears the history of New France was one long struggle with this relentless foe. As late as 1663 there were only twenty-five hundred colonists against seven- teen thousand of the Iroquois. Now and then canTe an interval -fnf *%'k p'" *J?^ ^"'>'' '"'^^ ^^'■°^« days strife was inces- sant. Ihe Canadian grew to manhood amid daily dangers. The instinct of self-preservation made him fight to pre^rve his home, lus wife, his children. Hence many daring feats Lon^ault °*'^*^* °^ ^ ^' DoUard's battle at the It is an episode in the "holy wars" of Montreal. This settlement, founded thirty-four years after Quebec, was called mto^ing as a rehgious citadel. The first band of colonists numbered forty-four of whom four were women. Maison! neuve, the leader, had the soul of a crusader. Jeanne Mance m whose charge was placed the hospital, did not shrink ' jm the penis to which women, like men, were e: jsed at thi-: extreme outpost of French ocr-upation. No one who went to his work within a hundred yards from the fort could teU when he would tall into an ambush. The first inhabitants of Montreal placed rehgion before every other human interest. Ihey longed to revive the hfe ci the Early Church. Thev IhZI -^ *'*"'''^Ju *^^ •^"d^^"^ Even when they repeUed attack It was .a the spirit of martjTs to the faith. "^ *^ " «f =.^*'"l^'^ T"i T* "^^^ ^'^^^^ companions to meet a force nte".^"".'^'^'^ V??"""^^' ^*^« *^ad ^«olved upon the com- plete destruction of Montreal. Even then, in 1660 its oeoDle were but a handful. To save them from the risk of sTegra^nd F-nU ^^'"^ '^^J'^f^u*'' ^"'^ *^« «a^ages such a t£te of Sr«nVhTf^ *^^* ?^^y ^?"^d ^^^^ ff«"^ th«r attempt He and his followers knew that they courted death. Each made his wiU and took the sacrament. By the rift of their hves, freely laid down in the service of their fe low? they were resolved to stem the tide of Iroquois attack. ro«;7l!# f^^i °^ ^^^ f^P^'"^ ^^^ unexampled fight was the rapid of the Long Sault on the Ottawa. For the details of the story we are indebted to some Hurons who joined the 10 Historical Introduction p^,-!?' S^ ^^? T^^ P*''^«8 coming against Montreal th fo^t^f tLT «„T u '^''i "P * l^*'o° "» ambush at th foot of the Long Sault, and try conclusions with those of th Iroquois whom he could intercept at that iSnt Hk Hp fences were a poorly built fort wfcch had beS^Trft by somi Dou|rp W^^^ ifthi^Srent^.n^et'E escai'TS^ T"^ ^ T"^'!^ J^*" was no cbS^ol hnf E:«.^ ® ^l^ °®^* *"«<^ ^ bum out the French but were dnven back repeatedly bv musket fi»*^ «5«oK ^f^i their loss^ that they decided to'^aft tiU the l^r p!S KZ the Richeheu should arrive. This caused a delay of fi^ d^Z anTc^ut^o^to^tl^r' ^ "^^ were clcseTy £^1^ ^ut^J In the final scene there were seven hundred shriekinir m2"s^X':'t^^'f: *>U°«« -l^^h Dotrd dSeS min sixteen Fl^ ..yhmen, forty Hurons and four Aleonauins Si th^ W^f?^^."*""* f ?« Hurons deS^r^dfSth^t Kfliv^TfL f^n^ When the final assault came they had tSv Sd lnn!^f days on dry hominy and such moisture as thefr St ^ "^^^"^ * ^°^^ *" *^« e^°"°d beneath Stung with shame at so many reoulses th«» Trnniir»!» finally fleeted leaders of a forlorn hop^KhaJSed tWort in one frantic mass Then followed the most tr^ inddent and faHn^ K r^^ '? i^! enemy's midst struck a branch catastrophe 8a>^ DoUier de Casson, "every man foueht as though he had the heart of a hon, defendinn?nS wit^ Zttl^TT- ^?^ P»«*^l «hot«" DoUard wis a^ng^Je first to be slam, but undeterred the rest foueht on «U thev were cut down one by one. Not a man sJrTved ^ ^/nS^STlTfr ^•^' ^^^ '''^ ^'-^ ^^^^ - -re The Right Hon. Sir Charles Fitzp,trick PC. K.C.M.C. Chief Justice of Canada R. L Borden. K.C.. l-«~i«r of the Oppoiiiian /^:V General Uke. C.B., C.M.G. 'mptcior Oenml of ilw Cm«fiM Forci Brigadier General W. B. Otter. C.B. In CofiHiund of Ilw Fore., durim ih« ClrtrMion I '31 i ^j( ""11 11 1*^ <"£ kl. ' IP r L I Bithop MounMin Pint Erifliih Biihcp of ^tctec The Right Rev. A. H. Dunn Lord BiUmp of Q|th*c Very Rev. Dean Williun Oueticc English CuhedriJ. Quebec Hiatorical IrOroduetion 11 V. On the morning of June 30th, 1666, aU Quebec was in a transport of joy. Cannon were booming and bells nnpng as aU the world dressed in its best hastened to the landing place. At the head of the procession went Mon- seigneur Laval, VicEr ApostoUc and Bishop of Petraa. He was to meet the King'^s Lieutenant-General, the Marquis It was no ordinary occasion. Louis XIV, then in the pnme of his youthful vigour, had determined that the strug- gling Canadians should receive help. Hitherto the colony m Its wars against the Iroquois had fought alone, unsupported by the royal troops. But now the Kmg was sending aid to his faithful subjects in the New World. The Marquis de Tracv was about to land at Quebec with a detachment of the Langnan Re^ment. The remaining companies were soon to arrive with De CourceUe, the new Governor, and Talon, the new Intendant. In the hearts of all hope mounted high. A bnght era was to dawn for Quebec and Canada. Laval, who took the leading part in Tracy's reception, was the most eminent ecclesiastic of the Old Regime. A^ tbe lirst Bishop of Quebec he was given an opportunity to orgamze the Roman Catholic Church in Canada. Throueh farmneas of character and clearsightedness of purpose he left his mark upon the distant future. By birth an aristocrat, sprung from the great line of the Montmorency, he made it his aim to spurn even those comforts whicl ire demanded bv ^'J*"*?^ .^"^ towards himself, he gave his whole soul and effort to the service of the church. What property he possessed went to endow the seminarj which he foiinded to educate candidates for the priesthood. All his enerev- physical and mental, he lavished upon the Canadian church with whose care he l.^d been entrusted. Clear-cut, self- denjnng, and unflinching in his defence of cardinal principles, ftndeSTiTew'^ite.'' ""^"'^""^ ^"^"^"^^ «"^^"«' ^« wh;.h*Jr«'^T^j;^^*S"'^"'?"*^^ ^^'^ expectations and hopes which were entertained at the moment of his landing. By i^r'r{!*"?u"* "^^ ^^^ Mohawks he secured for Canada the i?Sri^lK^^ 'P^^^ '^ ^^^ ^^'^' J^«*« in tW« fierce stnfe with the Iroquois. Impressed by the vigour and power I • ■ 12 Historical Introdwtum of the Carignan Regiment, the savages sued for oeace ThpJr roTeP' ^i^a r^d *heir viU^ges and th^irTrops'dS- ^^^S^^^the"^-^^^^^^^^ ^ee to ^oS, mor^'^L^V^^^u}}'^ Carignan Regiment meant much Sn ^'"^^ ^'^ «^^°*« «f '««d on tL SSeu and K i^ ^"' ^^'^ambly, Berthier, Baby, Varennes La f^^f ^' !S;™°''.* ?°^ Contrecceur preserve the SeSv of ine msbanded troops, who, as tenants of their former offirere mamtained the tie estabhshed in their youth (Sfficere and NorUir^ \^^> ""r^ ^"^^^ bufwark to thetolony overlooked TaInn"Vrr^ ^^Y' ^'^^ Tracy must Talon te S to t^Jl X**'!,-^'*** Intendant, the man who did fSr^s Si r^?*'' ^agriculture, trade, and manu- laciures. Coming to Canada m the same vear with th^ Carignan Regiment, he infused his sXdiJTnem- into every branch of the administration. T^enZge the^oDuk SreTo ZS^'S^Jr^ ?! ^ ^^""^y' -" -xt^arWs uesire lo make Canada in all respects self-supportinir No TtL^nrcTot^^^"^' -- '^^' -^ acrc^CSanS VI. from^Chamokin ^'1'%"^ v."" ^^ '' **^^^"« "»^ «f ^^Pl"'^". nnu.st Zis" of Nortf "a"^"'- ^*^\r1« ''»«^" ^he RadissonjS: ^faUu^:'^ are only the most distinguished of the many S spirits X P unged into the heart of the forest without thougMof the to htv T ^''^.^'1^ t»?5t exploration involved It wifheiS if Nia™ l"i'^" nudst o/an unbroken soUtude theThuVS ot INiagara to have seen the waves of Lake Superior sa vet untrnversed by any craft save the canoe, to K descld^d the Mississippi amon- tribes that then 'gazed for the fo^I H. B, Cwdinal Tuchcruu PifM CafMdiin Ctrdrrul F- X. Ckmcau. Fr»n!h.C«..*« Hmmtmii Mgr. PIcnis BiAop of C^ittMc. IMW Li. Col. Dc S«labcrry Hero of Chucuiguay ln.«ior En,l»h C«h«lrd. C>»b«. Convte^J H04. Roy.1 P«v in Clkry on kf. Pm vMil m ilM Th. ■■ Royal Wtll..m.- >w«W » cfMt tht Aihniic ky m«m. ilom. iMl>,ni ll» Historical Introduction 13 irfhr^«tl^%^Tif w* T'^**. ?*°' *°^ *<> ^v« trafficked at the Lake of the Woods with Crees from the boundless praine. "v»*"uicdo • • ??®!? was no one who recognized with more prophetic '^Aii^' Z^"'!- ^^"^ ,P<««ibiUtie8 of the fjf West! He desired mformation about the native copper of Lake Superior. Even before JoUet and Marquette Ead brought back a sure report as to the existence o? the Mississippi he was eager to prove the truth of rumours regardmg this great stream, ^d it was at his instance that Daumont de ite ^Mi^" " "®'' °^ ^'^ ^^ *' s^'S* By this ceremony the French took possession r.f that dis- tant West which lay around and beyond the in nd sSs Nothing waa spared to make it an impressive scei.o The Sieur de Samt-Lusson, who had come from France with Talon was chared to collect envoys of aU the friendly tribes inl habiting the West and to the meeting olace thev came from a radius of more than a hundred leagues. Fourteen nationn were reprraented throuf 'i their ambassadors, and on the 4th of June, 1671, began the most solemn festival ever observed m those regions. "uocrveu It was partly religious and partly political. Firet came the blessing of a great Cross wfcch ha^been erected on a height above the Sault. Then the King's escutcheon, Sed to a cedar mast, was set up, while the missionaries present sang the EmvduU and prayed for the Sovereign ''At^l ^^ '^^I^^}^' ^'^*^^°°' "Monsieur de Samt-Lusson, ob^ servmg all the forms customary on such occasions, took dob- of Long bve the King !' and with the discharge of mus- ketry to the deKght and astonishment of all tS pJZL who had never seen anything of the kind." Then f5lo£«i omtionsbv Father aaudeAlloue. and Saint-Lusson SS The whole ceremony was closed with a fine Lonfire, which was hghted toward evening, and around which the Te SeSn was 8ung to thank God, on behalf of those poor jS,ples tTS they were now the subjects of so great and poiJerfufa moSJrch '' 14 Hiatorieal Introduction vn. But the French were not the only Europeans in North ^^^u ^ J^^ ^^''^ Champlain^foundS Siebec Se EnghBh had begun their settlemSit at JanSowT Half a oentuiy later tEe whole Atlantic aeaboard fo^hSndiSf of mdes to the south of Acadia was dotted with EnguTSes each active and aggr^ive, strong in the sens! of SS freedom and endowed with a seSse of initiative wShS Ihe inevitable colhsion between English and French in America was p«tponed for seventy-five yea« by the local W^^TJ"^ ^K'T^ ^" '^ newiome/But at £lt the Enghsh began to take notice of the progress which thePrench were making in the West. The alaSn^ &Sl tJunded by ^u'^'L^^''^''' J*^ ^^"^ York. Fearing lest Se Sl^h Ki*^ ^^T^ in between the Atlantic and theTC te^^^n/f^^''°"'^ *° "^^'^ **^« ^d^'^^ce of the French il 1 fij ^, them once more m war with the i xiuois. As he looked forward he could see a time in the S futv^ L^k^ LZt "|?«.P9«^i°« the St. Lawrence, the grS? F^Sh fn *S? MississiDpi could hamper, or even check the iiingbsh m their natural expansion. Within five years from the time when Donean becan to J^^ll^n^t%'^- Jf?.°^*^ °' Canada,lhS^SiS o? James 11 from the Enghsh throne caused violent war between the parent states. Transferred to North America if KouSt on a stem and dreadful duel between these two races whSe s'S^^h^^of^^i;^^ - '-"^'^ '^ ^^ -eiJ^^'at^ fhinng his first term of office (1672-82) he had LHSi oX!I''i^^!i''J **t?""« "1!^ S« '»^'^"«' ^^^ friction at SonWp it? }t^ ^'' ^- '^J'^^y V"^"" ^°"«'^«<1 «* revival of trouble ^th the Iroquois during the period of his two succes- !?^'- ^^L?^'^ *"** D«no°ville. Wh^ Frontenac had bSn hl^ ^\t^^y ''"'*.*' their worst, and in 1689, at fheS T ™5: vfv i F^l ^".between France and England, Louis XIV sent Frontenac back to his post at Quebec He Tre'^d^rd X-°''' '"' " '°"'' ^°"'' '^^^ P""^ Stont over the Enlr«nce lo Philibert'i House. Now intened in the walls of the Post Office ? ' Chtteau St. Louis— Destroyed in 1134 J Historical Introduetion 15 h.r f^n%^*u' ^^«8*.crifli8 Prontenac saved Canada from her two foes, the Iroquois and the English. He sent toi ^ those three war parties which in the winter of ifion LS^i foe and sword to^e hamlets of New E^gk^d andT.'vSi? He brought the caureura debms from the far West and turned them against the Iroquois. In the face of ?vemheS numbers he turned Canada into a vast camp, whS^Sf log house became a stronehold It wa« tC nl^t!! „k Madeleine de Verch^res, agS ?iurtin,ZirheSfhett; heroine.*" ^^'^^'"^ ^^'^'^ *°d issued from tTe conteK Frontenac might strike at the English by land but Canada was vulnerable from the side of the sea^ S kS PwS sSSTthf s^T*""^P^' ^'r*^^'^ ^" i«90 sS'^iuS rm^ sailed up the St. Lawrence to demand the sunendpr nf Quebec he was met not with submission but defianT^D'Ibe?- ville the greatest of the French Canadian warriore was en S§1te nSri".' ^ '^- ^'Z'^'''' BienSe^^ion^e,; flSi m?JrV"u**^''^P*^ '"^ '^« resistance to the English fleet. Where Krke had succeeded, Phips faUed, baffled bv the vigUance of Frontenac and the bravety ofSe CanSian mihtia. And when his fleet had withdrawn defeated, Q^eSc de la ^ctSS^' ^^ P'"*y '''''^ '^' '^^'^ of N^t^Dlme VIII. It is the chief characteristic of our Ufe to^av that in oTcatada^'uSS" A"'' ^r^'^''^ ^°' the^^vL'^meit fi«„ »; r , K.^^^ "^^^^ was not the banner of Fron- tenac or Montcahn, French and English enjoy the same nrn tection and share the same citizensWp. In J^her SsT" Ideal for which Colbert and Talon strove wSsSipTScaSe ^Spe'riinrand"'}- tJS^^ TJ"^ ^°«««^ aS^Fl^u'ch ^i^^^^A^ ra^th^ris^xsMS tor!i ♦ ^^^^ ^y <'he most startling chances of fortune it 16 Historical Introduction ?l ^ uT^^^^l^ *^* ^°«^*» i*^ ^e"<» outnumbere. the French by forty to one. Remembering this fact th contest 18 seen m ite true light. It was inevitable that Ne^ i-ngland and New France should battle for supremacy. Bu we can now see how the issue was predetermined by thos general caus^ which made the emigration to Canada ver smaU, and that to the English colonies very large. In th) era of the Seven Years' War the disparity had Become to< ^*!?r^\u^**® parent states by their intervention mighi modify the course of the conflict, but could hardly have de termined the result. ^ From Oswego to Ste Foy, who shaU say where Ues th« supenonty m courage and devotion? Montcahn and L^vit throwiAg their whole souls into a task which was rendered ^f^^ ^y -^^ ''f^'^" P^'^^y °f 2>«o*' Wolfe, shattered m health, yet nsing from albed of fever to make a final effort; the charge of the Highlanders, which showed that England and bcotland had become a united nation : the bravery and willinc- ness of the French Canadian miUtia:— it is in vain that we attempt to single out any one feature of this splendid an- tagonism which can confer pre-eminence upon either nation or upon any individual in either camp. What perished in the capitulation of Montreal was the Bourbon monarchy and the narrow absolutism which fettered the life of New France throughout the Old Rigune. What survives to this day is the vigour of two great races, striving to make Canada strong and free and reverent of law. ' li f SANS MERCI -By H*t««. I. i. civili„„on fighting bTtlri J ^ "" "' "*"*' "" '"'"'" •'«• ' '"•«»' ''f"-- L. FRECHETTE. FRANK LASCELLES Designer *nd Muter of the Pageantry. flote on tbe paoeants By MR. LASCELLES Quebec, July, 1908. An appreciation of its History and of the deeds of its lieroes ranks among the ^eat factors in the development of a naZn Hence it will be readily granted that any influence which tends to th« increase of this appreciation is not lightly to be set aside *''* ft.ii„ ♦!! ♦ ^ l'"*^*^^ perspective lent by time, the present should realise na foi so S^fh°^ .ts heritage yet it is given to few to have theJ imari! nation so stirred through the medium of the printed page. astocaureS to appreciate the significance of the record ^ " Science ^e1irth''S*S„ p '"^^"''' ^T^ *°."«' » «* '>'"»d""^d to the StiS^ht£^t2d.'?°'"'" p"**" "°'^' ''"'' '"""^-^ ^- «« Ha^B then is an attempt to recall in Uving form some events in the history of a century and a half of Canada's early days It IS no story of the pomp and panoply of a thousand veara that f Ha™ Frank Lascelles. than repeat as an apol^ the w^!^,£S?„ ,L , ?* "«»«'>"», I cannot do better of the drford HirtSS%^^nr '^urUrf^S!fI"'°K7 ?°** ^ the Book of Worcb Pageant, like an huitorical^Uy of S^^^^.^^^^^ ^"^ ??^"V°"* ''»' * °«>de™ time, and auitabilitv for reo^nf^n T^ ' S°i^" compelled by reason of space, never have been realitiea." ■ometimes bodies forth possibihties which may BRETAGXE. II taut, tout parfum6 du sel des goemons. Que le souffle atlantique emplisse tea poiinons: Arvor t oflFre sea caps que la mcr blanbhe arrosi. L'ajonc fleurit et la bruyfire est d«ii rose L homme immobile auprte de I'immuable cliose. Mni!??; ^"^"t .*« verras, par Ics landea d'Arti. Monter vers le ciel mome, infrangible cyprS^ Le menhir sous lequel git la cendre du BiSref' Et I'ocdan, qui roule en un lit d'algues d'or' Is la voluptueuse et la grande Occismor Heroera ton coeur triste & son munnure gtsve HeR»:.U. The Pageants m . Historical Notes on the First Paoeant. Just before Jacques Cartier in 1535 moored two of his ships inth( stream now known as the St. Charles, he made his first visit to the ok Indian viUage of Stadacon6, " the town and dwelling place of Donnacona ' Ranged along the hi^h land between the St. Charles and the St. Lawrenw were the villages of Ajoast6, Stamatam, Tailla (" which is on a mountain " adds the discoverer), and Stadin. Stadacon6, on the high land iu'sl beyond, overloolong the St. Charles, was by far the most considerabU of them aU, for Donnacona was Agouhanna, "lord of Canada." " Undei this high land towards the north," reads Cart ier's narrative, "is the rivei andharbourof St.Croix(St.Charles),where we stayed from the fifteenth day of September until the sixth day of May, 1536." The winter was a disastrous one. Twenty-five men were carried of! by scurvy; the survivors had scarcely strength to draw water or to keep the neighbouring savages in ignorance of their weakness by beating together pieces of wood within their palisade. On the third of May, 1536 the day and festival of Holyrood, Cartier raised a cross, 35 feet in height, beanng a shield charged with the arms of France, and inscribed in Attic letters: Franciscus Pnmus, Dei Gratia Francoium Rex Regnat " Shortly after the ceremony Jacques Cartier's crew brought Donnacona and foi^ other Indians on board the Cfrande Hermine, in order to carry them off to France that Francis I might see them and hear thorn speak. Names of Jacques Cabtier's Crew. Ships' RoU of the expedition of IS"), preaeute.! hr Jean PouUet at the meeting of the Municipal Council of St. Malo at Bale St Ie->n Mareh 31, 1535. The inscription of the said Masters, Mariners and Pilots follows: — Jacques Cartier, Captain. Thomas Fourmont, Master. OuiUaume Le Breton Bastille, Captain and PUot of " L'Em^rillon. " Jacques Maingard, Master of "L'Em«- Marc Jalobert, Captain and Pilot of the "CorreUeu.'' (») Guillaume lie Maris, Master of the "Cor- relieu. " Laurent Boulain. Etienne Nouel. Pierre Esmeiy dit Talbot. Michel Herv6. Etienne Princevel. Michel Audiepvre. Bertrand Sambost. Richard le Bay. Lucas Fanunys. Francois Guitault, druggist. Georget Mabille. Guillaume Sequart, carpenter. Robin Le Tort. Samson Ripault, barber. Francois Guillot. Guillaume Esnault, carpenter. Jehan Dabin, carpenter. Jehan Duvert, carpenter. (!) This vessel was the "PETITE HERMINE;" her name being thus chanced on the occasion of Cartier s second voyage. so- w»l of Jacques Carticr r an Quebec, IS3S Conference between Jacques Canier and the Indians at Stadaconi. i: ■ I Th« Taking of Quebec m 1629. From Hcnntpm. Edition 16*1 Ju]i«nQol«t Tliomas Boulsin. lliehel PbeUpot. Jebao Hsmel. Jehan Fleunr. GuiUaume Oiiilbert. ColMBarbe. Lkurant Gkillot. Ouilkume Boehiv- Miohd Eon. Jehan Antb x ■)\x. Pierre Jonebue. lliehel Maingatd. Jehan Manrm. Bertmnd Apvril. Oillei Stuffin. Geoffroy OUivier. GuiUaume de Ouemei<. Eustaehe Oronin. GuiUaume AUierte. Deaeription of the PageanU Jehan Ravy. It Pierre Marquier, trumpeter. GuiUaume Le GentiUiomme. RaouUet Maingard. Fran^oia Duault. Herv< Heniy. Yvon LegaL Antoine AUerta. Jehan Colaa. Jacquea Poiniault Dom. GuUlaume Le Breton, CStaplain. Dom. Anthoine, Chaplain. PhUippe Thomaa, carpenter. Jaequee Dubois. Julien Plantimet. Jehan Go. Jehan LegentUhomme. Michel Douquais, carpenter. Jehan Aismery Pierre Maingart Lucaa Clavier. Goulaet Riou. Jehan-Jaoquei Hoibibeo. Pierre Nyd. Legraidte Etienne Lebfame (*). loguts and hiatonana amoe thia liat waa publiahed. "raoeo- **''°to "Se^^n* ^*"*'*"**' •«»«>'<*• S««gi>eur de Montcevrilea and cup-beai«r Moonieur: Cfaarie* QuUlot. eeetetaiy of Jaoquea Ckrtiar. " Oiaries de la Pommeraya. Pierre de Qiambeaubc, " Jehan Guyon, " Jehan PouUet, " Jehan Gamier, De GoyeUe, and PhiHppe Rou^emont, the only one Jacques Cartier namea of the thirty aailon who died of scurvy dunng the winter of 1535-36. ' ^^ .~.vT^'?"T *^ tot^.number of names so far as known, to 83, but, as the man iHw took part in tliis expedition totaUed 110, tbera are some tWenty-siven whokmyet^ ^^•i^iZ^^"" to rem«n sa dever inde«i will be t2e «.tiqua,i«. ^Z wiU FIRST PAQEANT— Scene I. 1634-6.— The Villaqb of Stadacon*: Jacques Cartier plants a CROSS ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER AND RETURNS TO FRANCE. There is a deep silence over the distant blue hills, over the broad river flowing between its lofty banks, and over the wide waiting land of primeval forest and plain. * Outlined against the waters is the motionlest- figure of an Indian chieftain as, with his hand shading his eyes, he gases out over the river. ae sta nda as though looking into the dawning of the future, with pn- Fint PacMat I » DferipHonotthePagtank moj^ionofooBmjgchMipBto Wb race. In the distant encampment is bsard the sound of ooging^ On a sudden he utters a cry, for awar on *•» nw. J» ««» ca«ditS2»t of three strange ships. ^ f K^T-i^" '*°^ come running fromthe camp and gase in wonder rtthe stran4,e apparition, while the sons of the s&ors ii heard belo" i«KL*5"jK?MI* PS' *° ^' *J» ^"« t"«P d"'^ to the shore -Jtl.^?-^ T^ "?y_"*""' '•"«»«»««» to fnendly welcome, and im £in?^»i'^A"^»'^"*.***^*« *"«>««». dicing sinrinfc toapmg, oymg '^AtouaB" m welcome, after theianiier oflfii, pS^ S^^iiT"^ ''°^=!:r«'!?l?''*'"'°« '^th infants in their^S^ ^£S1 teT ™S r^> "*''' ''>°"ting for joy, strokingiS ^5!^ J?!? '"^S "«» «w>lding up screeching inf Jits to be toSc^ „1H i?^?" ^'J*'" "1?" bread and wine to be set before them, andw^ oU cbeftam, tuat. makes an harangue, pointing out the extent" the domuuon to which the white men are receiWanS welcomeTrhM th^ Til^^'u"^ ""^ *•* 7°"" to retire, squat on the ground about thePrenchmen row upon row of swarthy forms'iTd grim faces^asttoS ■ays Cwtier "we were about to act a play." Then appears a'troooof wSTtS'^'*^:! "it^W"* tl^ "over'the bare eJS^wJ'^l' ?rJ?L''^'^ ^ tribesmen. They place him on the ground at JacoSes Oirtier's fest and make sign, of M>lemn appeal for himfAgouhiir?K ^iffiL*°JS?K ^""l*'^ h»nd oAhs French chief. Cartier ruSi the SSS SLS'' ^- '^' "d » given in return for his sympat^ StSulSt""' ^ victories-and the red fillet (5 hi Meanwhile, the sailors have set up a great cross of wood Dnon rtj«ns is a shield ehurged with the iSies SFranStnd i^^ripuC of the cannon having died away, the Frenchmen kneel before the croi? tE!SSJ£pf ?Z*°' ^""^ *° ^"*' ^^ "P"" '^ "W* '^•P^^d-' tn .^Lf *'^^''»^'*'" "y" Cfrti". "the savages marvelled, turning one ^J^^ f"^ l*"?* "P?" the cross". Then, treating it ;ithrevliW r^J^f'**^. "'?'*■ **' "^ **'«" '*• •do"»d with lowen, andbSm tooacco before it as mcense. "«"•• ^„v Meanwhile from the wigwams beyond appears a woeful throng, the sick, the maimed, and the decrepit, brought or iSdforth and placed Urfore DEUM. ET DEUS ERAT VERBUM. "' Then te mSSL SJtL^oflS ttd rosaries, com^s and bells to the women, whUi pewter rings and imSS ..rf f^ h'J'" °^''' "" .'•decked out in a shirt, coloured "sayon," and a red bat, each one receiving a chain of "laton" around hid neck De$enjition of the Pageantt 21 Cartier presents to the chief a cloak of Paris red set with yeUow and white buttons of tin and ornamented with small bells. Then a little girl is presented to Cartier; aU the people give cries in Hgii of joy and alhance, and the chief presents two little boys, one after the other, upon which the same cries and ceremonies are made as before Now the trumpeters press their trumpets to their lips and blow a blast that fills the hearts of their hearers with amasement and ddight The visitors descend to the river, foUowed by a crowd of women, who, with clamorous hospitality, beset them with gifts of fish, beans, corn and othCT artides of unmvitmg aspect, making signs that the cross shall not be disturbed. A group of Indians accompany them in canoes to their ships, their shnU songs of jubilation still reaclungtne ears of the receding Frenchmen as they spread their sails and steer for home, carryingthe chief Donnacona and some of his companions to France, that Francia the FuBt may see with his own eyes the inhabitants t A-i A - bl All, alo, pour MadMro: Ali, ali, alo! n mange kk viande Et nous doniM 1m m: Ali, aH, abl Ali, ali, alol A SAIhTT-MALO. BEAU PORT OE MER A Saint Malo, b«au port d« mer, (bis) TitM graa navir** aoot arrives, NoiM iiaoa tur I'eau, NouB y prom' promener, Noua irana jouer dam I'De. DONNAOONA. VI^ 8t ^jal tur ton fkr pramoa- toire, D n'art plus da for«t lUMidwHt at noin; „, > fw a tout d^trult. luianirltr %utaeloehMS,tttrlMbkuieliM muimillM Bur 1« roo & ^ip<, Mmoin de eant batsUlw, Plane une Ombre la nuit. Ella vient de bt«B Mb, d'oa vieux ehitwn dcFranee, A moitM itueH.jmoA par la touvnaaea Du rm nanfoia piemiar. EUe erut au Dieu fort qui Kuffrit en rilanee ^<>,>anoe in 1634, mterpreted for Donnacona theChief, before the King. m Indians were sent to St. Malo to be instructed in the cathoUc faUh. They were baptised," says ( -ier, "at their own desire and request." -iK5f"5-z}'°*',~^"^ ?? «°<" '' ^° Donnacona; but in 1542 the old ohwf died, professing his new leligion. Pbbsbmt at thb Coubt of FRANas I. Gemtlehbn op the Coubt: vi»J'!ir.£!!^K°li*'*"j^'/^i^"' 17 years of age-Henri, 16 years of age-Charies duke of Origans, 13 years of age. Anre de Montmorency, Pnme Bfinister, Grand Master and Marshal of France — Oanlinal Jean de Lorraine— Chabot de Brion (Admiral of France) i;;;^? n,'*i^"'"j"''i^"*o^'''' °* ^"'" (p»°<* «""*•' »' the chMe)— Duke Claude de Savoie-Antoine du Bourcy (Chancellor) --GuiUwme Poyet (Chancellor, President of the Parliament of /iS^^T?*""*,, ''^ Saint-Pol-Count de Tende-Cardinal de Toumon (High Chancellor)-GuiUaume du BeUey-Langey (Minister) -Marquis de Sf s?'i;/i'"J^?*"''J ^^?^?^ of ParisWMgr. Franjois BoWer(bi8hop iS 1? M^^i^"* *%-^*l'^-?'? <('Anneh.ut-«ire de Montejak — De la Meillerave (Vice-Admiral of France)-Count de Rceubc (Ueutenant general) -Count des Bures (Ueutenant general) -Caliot du Sfn^v *! J^f **« T'"^' mini8ter)-Sire de Sangey-Martin rh»SiX^nP*'J°^~?^'"'T'".<*'*?*"°>-^ •» Porte (captain)- Chandemer (lieutenant) -Antomo de Leyva (lieutenant) -Bonne- ?)„ P^^P^PK^ ~*^f" /*S!?° (•'•"tenant of the Criminal Court) - Du Prat (Chanwllop of France, Minister) -Henri d'Albret (Ueutenant KSi u^L?*"* pn^-F'MQois de GenouiUac (seneschal of Qu«ry)- n^^^i?"'/ . u'****^*"^')-^'*"™' Marot (celebrated writer) ZSS. n.,f^L''*-^2^'l4^f"^-^.*'™'^ ^'•» (celebrated writer) —Louis Burgenais (first medical attendant) DeserxTption of the Pageants 23 Ladies of the Court: Queen El^onore (2nd wife) -Daughters of the King: Madeleine (15 yeare of age) and Marguente de France (12 years of Me)-Mar(mente fa wn/Ynn" l^'lf ^"gJT^f'^DucWd'Estam^L^Trd: if ,^??1. T°T^~i^''^f^»^® Lorraine-Marie de Bourbon (dau- hter of the Duke of Venddme) -Marie de Guise (daughter of Claude de Lor- ^» mIJ^^^^^v '^ ^I'r^.lT® ""J}}"^ King)-Marie d'AIbret -Catherine de Mddicis (wife of the Duke of Orleans, married 1513) -Mademoiselle Norm^dy)^ °* " (daughter of .he Grand Marshal of FIRST PAQEANT- Scene II r^ 1536.— The Gardens at Fontainebleau: Francis the First receives siSSn Jacques Cartier and learns op his Discovert of Canada. „* ^* ^^^ u,**" °^ * summer afternoon there comcs through the gardens tL^^ ""^^''T X T'^^^de of courtiers from the forest ^yond. Trumpets sound m the distance, as the richly caparisoned horses, bearing their noble riders come into view through the avenue of trees. Across the greensward winds the long procession in sheen of velvets and of satins unil drawing rein by the sparkling fountains, they are met by groups of ladies and attendants of the court, while strains of music mingle with the plash of the water and the jingUng of the bells and harness. aniH. t!f xtl ""l®"" •'i *""i°.Py °° * ^°"^ caparisoned in cloth of gold, his clothes are embroidered in gold and jewels and as irreat cuds of w.ne and golden ''"* ^°^' *nd of those to whom nature has granted but one leg. The king having listened with inteiwt Jacques Lartier at his departure on his second voyage. Then, la-iriuna and jesting, the king rides on with his Court. ^nw», w igmng Historical Notes on the Second Paqeant— Scenb I. The new era inaugurated in the New World by Champlain was the Exhauit^T :»•:" '^' ""'^ ^°"'* '"""S'rated^by Heng^Nava^' savs iStr.^ .^?^ '^""^ ^'*™ "^ "°"'^°^' *'""»«« "had sunk at last," ?2c^ovm Th^ r^°.JLr^' ""e^y^nd disturbed yet the harbinger of W^H S^vjli ^ "''^'" f^""^ ^°^ *•>« ''«»• o' F'-'^ce and of man- in tteCSf**"* -^ i° the troubled surface of affairs. w«i throned «n the Louvre, composing the strife of faaions and the quarrels of his mis 24 Detcnption of the PageanU tresses. The bear-hunting prince of the Pyrenees wore the crown of France. He cared little for creeds or dogmas. Impressible, quick in sympathy, his grim lip lighted often with a smile, and his war worn cheek was no stranger to a tear. He forgave his enemies and forgot his friends. Many loved him; none but fools trusted him. Mingled of mortal good and 111, frailty and force, of all the Kings who for two centuries and more sat on the throne of France, Henry the Fourth alone was a man " Such was Henrj' of Navarre in the Old World : Champlain, in the New was a true hero after the chivalrous mediasval type. His character was dashed largely with the spirit of romance. Though earnest , sagacious and penetrating, he leaned to the marvellous; and the faith which was the Ufe of his hard career was somewhat prone to overstep the bounds of reason and invade the domain of fancy. A Royal patent raised him to the rank of untitled nobihty. He soon wearied of the antechambers of the Louvre It was here, however, that his destiny awaited him and the work of his life was unfolded. Aymar de Chastes, commander of the order of St. John of Jerusalem and Governor of Dieppe, wished to mark his closing days with some notable achievement for France and the Church. He made reason and patriotism -us watchwords. He came to court to beg a patent of Henry IV, and he resolved to proceed to New France in person and dedicate the rest of his days to the service of God and his King. Champlain young, ardent, yet ripe in experience, consented to accept a post in the nev» enterprise. Before his departure for Canada in the spring of 1608, Champlain submitted to the King his reasons for preferring the banks of the St Lawrence, the gateway of Canada, as a place of settlement, to the ruKeed shores of La Cadie. The dreani of the sailor of that period was a passage to the Western Sea and the nches of Cathay. Champlain, however, recalled the great stream which flowed in silent grandeur from sources in the West, which no white man had ever discovered. Here the Indians would bring their furs • the discoverer would prepare for his voyages of adventure; the Church v-ould proclaim her teachings to the children of the forest. Henry IV then at the height of his glory, extended to Champlain the encouragement which assured to France a colony in the New Worid. On July 3 1608 thamplain 'a Uttle ship anchored before t he Rock of Quebec. Present at the Court of Heijri IV. 1608. Henri IV (King). Dauphin Louis. Gaston, Duke of Orl&uis. Another child who became Louis XIII (■even yean). Jean Roany (confidential minister of the King). Auhign^ (Marshal of France). Philippe du Plrssis-Momay. Charles de CosB^-briasac (Marshal of Frmuoe). Brulart de Sillery (Chancellor of France). Jeannin (Minister). Duke of Guise. Prinea de Joinvill» Duke of Mayenne. Marquis of Montpesat. Henri II de Montmorency (Marshal of France). Duke of Epemon. Count of Auvergnfc. Duke of Lesdigui^pes (Grand Constable of France). De Villeroy (Minister of the Kingt. Cieer, Duke of Venddme. Roger dc Bellegarde (Marshal of France). Antoine Count of Moret. Charles Faulet (Chancellor). I.«'npt (Councillor of State). Du Teuil (confidant of the King). e.ifOHjAT The Founder of Quebec, the Ancient Ctpilal of Cuuda il II Anne of Auscria HKNHy IV. //^um C»ndi«c— The Home of Monicilm %k re Uunchmg of the Cr.ff.n" on the N,»g»r. R.ver m t«?9 Descriptum of the Pageants Marquis de Mirabesu. Marquis de Liancourt. Duke of Montbazon. Marquis de la Force. Le Noue. Romielaure (Lieutenant-general). De I^avardin (Marshal). De CriUon (grand Captain). .'eand'Albret Ville^ntlain. Concino-Concini, Marshal d'Ancre. Marie de MMicis and the ladies of the Court. 25 Elisabeth (Queen of Spain) daughter of the King and of Claude of France. uennette (Queen of England), daughter of the King and of Claude of France. JUeonore Do.-i (Marquise d'Ancre) tody of the bedchamber of the Queen. Marquise de Vemeuil. Princess of Condfi. Duchess of Mayenne. Marquise d'Elbeuf. Madam Duplessis-Momay. Jacqueline de Bueil. Charlotte des Essarts. Mile d'Aumale. SECOND PAQEANT-Scene I. Second 1608^The Louvre: Samuel de Champlain at the Court of Kino^«"«»* ™»K fl ^^^ " "tyP '^ ^^^ P»'«>e of the Louvre and about it is taoestrv fi To ri'^'strafns Sf.' ^T^r. '""l Halberdiers' and Gua^dfora S thS ™ffl^ »n^ J}^ MH»3tfls, the gaily attired courtiers troop in SmatS ?2rZt ^*^t ?P"'f'* farthingales and all is laughter ^d M^SL ^ MX JV^P^ts proclaim the entrance of the King and Ws Queen fdbweJ bfthe tntt^'^f r" ^y '""^ S^"*'^ '"^'^ Pagef of the couTtTd loiiowed by the gentlemen of honour and maids in waitme thevmaWptboir Th^'ft n^^V'"! ^^*"« ^'"•""g t« '^^^' throne of Se At t"e fo J of 5 mS ^af chiJaW^an"'^ ""*'* '" ^ V^'"^ °^ ''''' «"«<» ^th the spirit T i»^*„„fl^ r. ,"? ""^. roroance. who is presented to the King as his orpSc?o"fT.- ^7 ^'""^ '^^ ?^' ^'«"' de Monts, from cLam^aiS's PAVANE 4>p«, break oul ,„,o ih. g., „f„i„ „, ..vi,e H»K §uS - ' Deseription of the PageanU VIVE HENRI QUATREI btt-irc. Eidtiraun vert |>l>nil HisTOBicAL Notes on Second Pageant— Scene II. ifl^^*^P'^°j''*^ been nine years married to H6Une BouU«, when 1020 she decided to embark with her husband for New France The shii comply comprised scarcely twenty souls. Father George^ de Bailhf very distinguished RAcoUet, and Brother Bonaventure accompanied t Founder of Quebec. There were two clerks and three servants of Madai «,.f'5Ei'^^ T,^- '^^ a great day for the Uttle settlement when the si rounded the Point of Orleans. The doors of the.4Wto...;n ♦K- j„i of Montmorency, Admiml of France, and my vi^royTN^w Franc? to «^ out fo?t •Id country, to be there his lieutenant, and to locf after my ".^H "m plla^ S^^"Jm K^'""' *° "'"'a!' y°" ^^^ '•»« ^"^'^ ^^"^ you»h^ll%;de?me^tl I.™ « '^' <»using the people there to live as conformably as possible to 1 1 H.^ ,.™? "^ '*il'?« '*" ""^ "' '*"« '"t^-^"* of the CatLi^n.?S^n so as Done at Paris, the seventh day of May, 1620. " HISTORICAL PERSONAGES. CouRTiEiia: — Sieur de Pontgtmv^. Sieu' Guillaume de Ca«n et Sieur Emuillaid. Marguerite Couillard . Elinbetb Couillaid. Marie Couillard. Maiguerite Martin. H mnat t^ ^v'nrST"'^- ^\iL '^"''^ .by them as TeeZS^ o" relig^on^iSd p^ JhTrf^^ ^^ occasions the most serious and solemn. Witfiout thelnt^rwationof the dance, no pubhc or pnvato transaction of moment can take effect It^mTta SdT„*1.^''„^'S' " ^r^^ *.»"' ""*J^ f">™ their hibuSj^ddSSandlSl^ and m mspinng them with activity and animation. wrpioiiy, exhibitiSS.'^ '" °""* passionately fond of tbeae than Europeans are of theatrical SECOND PAQBANT— 5cene II. 1620.— Samuel de Champlain brings to Qitebec his young wipe and 18 RECEIVED BY THE GaRRISON OP THE FoRT AND THE FRIENDLY INDIANS WHO PERFORM THE CaLUMET DANCE IN THEIR HONOUR. rh»Jnit-^"'S rock bound viUage of Stadacond has now become Quebec, of WT •"" u°*^^^ V^ ^'^ «P«°* ^^ intervening time in the midst rl^t^A^ ^' 7^^ ^^^f "^^ *»»« settlers in their labours and is ^^!t ?•* l"?*^" .*°d friend bv all. Now, after an absence of two ^fo^X ^.? hw native countiy, he is bringing back from France his girl Son^ » Lm r*? ^ ^^° ^®*" °^ '^'' prepared to spend the rest of his life SL t « ^ * .guarantee of his good faith to live in his own wigwam here as the viceroy's heutenant in "La Nouvelle France." Second Pageant Scene II :r! 28 Dtteripion of the PagearUt The entire population conaBting only of 80 persona, comes out to meet them with much joy, and the artillery booms out at intervals from the httle fort which Champlain himself had constructed and the bells ring from the church tower which he had built. The settlers include families of the Huberts, CouiUards, Martin, Hvert, Desportes, Huboust, Marsolet, (many of whose descendants survive here to this day. • i.'^?*' ^^^ shouts of the assembled crowd, the Indians greet them with the concise ceremony of the forest; they gate at the young giri in stupified amazement that anything so beautiful should come among them. She weare dangling at her side a little mirror, in the fashion of the time, which reflects their countenances; and it pleases them vastly to think that she has them each "in her heart." They have prepared a solemn feast to which the elders and chiefs have been invited, and women sweep the arena where the festival is to take place. The Viceroy and his wife are seated on skins in the place of honour and the calumet or pipe of peace IS presented to them while the chiefs smoke, sitting round. Champlain tells them that, moved by affection for them, he first visited their country to see Its nch mines and its beauty and to help them in their wars. In the meantime preparation is being made for the Calumet dance. They surround the spot with small trees and branches, placed perpendiculariy in the ground, and the chieftain advances, exclaiming that he carries a calumet of peace. A large mat is then spread, on which is placed the god of the chieftain who gives the dance. On the right of the "manitou" are placed the calu- met, with the trophies of warfare, the club, the hatchet, the bow, the quiver and arrows. The singers, consisting of both men and women, are seated under the foliage upon mats. The first part of the dance is per- lomaedbyone person, who throws himself into various attitudes, and fMticulates with the calumet in his hand. He then invitee a warrior to join him in the dance; the latter ^>proache8 with his bow and arrows, and hatchet or club, and comme sea a duel against the other, who has no ins- trument of defence but the calumet. The dance over, the performers approach in ceremony officially to receive Champlain and his party. ... '^**?'l* ""^ °^ iP°^ French wine is broached and the health of the King, of Champlain and hia young giri wife is drunk amid shouts of "Vive e Roi, " Bien Venue " and " Vive Champlain " to which he replies, " Vive la Nouvelle France " and " Vive Qu^bec.^' Then merrily singing the song L etait une frigate," they accompany them to the Abitation. DAN« DU CALUMfT I-* H.' - I*. Yoo.|»n.non . out' Ht-a. Hi' • » . You lini r I hW . I*. H.' . («. YouUnnon . ouo' (-«.» H«' M. You Un non - out' Deaeription of the Pageants A LA CLAIRE FONTAINE lemtjsquc n ivKot. JuMir it fw I'oublvru J'ai trouv< I'eaa A belle Que je m'y ams baign<; Sous lee feuillee d'un chine Je me auie fait afcher. Lui ya Ifngtempa que je t'aime Jamaia je ne t'oubuerai. • • • • • Je voudraia que la raae Fut encore au rosier, Et que le rosier mime Futilamerjet^. Lui ya longtempe que je t'aime, Jamaia je ne t'oublierei. CETAIT UNE FRECATE C'teii u.n* H-u-». ••wn io-li oonr di re-M; Okrabi C-b«l of Louis XL Marie was bom in 1599 She Jtl^ "Z^ T\ i? *•»• '"i"»'y' »°^ ~t'"«l °"«>y * time the great JLTi aIWu.?* Tour, and that exquisite little gem of Gothic S- ^ h^^„ * ^"^J*"' *" *«i°* *'*•} *'^'' '^"^ music After her marriage, Ih! TT^.«;!° °"'^ "?" ^i*" *"'y widowhood, she had entered at thirty the Unuhne convent at Tours. SUrred by the thrilUng ReUUion, dL of^lS'JTA*^ l?u" °' ^*- y«<*°t i»e Paul, aided by thS*coSSSLS of Madame de 1» Peltrie, a volunteer from the hauU nobU„, of I^ormandv and suppoi.ad by Anne of Austria and the devotion of the DucIS • 'i j 'I W Detaiption of the PugeantM «.„n?i!*fV*"*^''J??..°' the citiMM Of Quebec when the Utt'e vessel rounded the point of Orleans. Montmagny, the Governor Bent his b1«» m viceregal state to welcome the woma^ whom Bo^T^ ™ to c^ was to call the Sle. Th6ri>e de I'Amirique. The Go^^or him!Sf FathSS t)Tf^nZi ^ J«'^^M»rtial Piraulx^rnd the citisens of QuSS tbS'nS The_hard8hips endured by the first Ursulines cannot be recorded here Surrounded by the menace of the wilderness, asbailed brtbTravW^f ZlS^^Vi':''^. *** discouragement of diis^ faS, of wT^ o ^aaI' ^ '°?''}^ T" «1»**^°«^ °'^y ^y the indomitable perseverance and devotion of the founders. Hdre Marie de 1'Incar.ation^ «^ wlS,^'?"'/^"* !""• '^ ^"'"'^ Kirls beneath a primevj^^ which stood for two centuries as a monument to her lea^. BeneaththMs spreading branches she told the story of "Him who madfS thinS^ ^J^JtlT ■"i.*^ "PP*' ^°^J ''""t t° »•«» 8«>"°d on a bitterW^id midwinter's mght, arose again from ite ashes. Throughout tlwtfcr^n colony and the Iroquois scourged the land Uke^the plague itself X) de- -K te SL™T '^T^ the wavering inhabitLT staveS' the c.^ rtSS li?w«f i" ^*"°''J?" '"r* throughout the stricken colony, a^ stood between a discourand people and apparent ruin. ^' «,n, T^* subsequent hfe ol the UreuUnes at Quebec forms one of the most romantic chapters m Canadian history. The UreuUne convent p^ SrS Z^'^ff '°"f. "'«^- '^'>« "»"'» «' the BriUsffiu? o? m5 J^und" "^hI" Wo«.^*Sn ^^'^ "°''**'*''" ^'' »'™«d ^ the shdl-toS S?a„Ui„ ;5 fS n ^?? I™®F^ ■•™*"' ^M Pwached by the Anidlcan nb^l^ PK -^i" ^"^"^ **«','^P- Within tueie walb are reUra froK time of Christ and bis aposUes to the martyrdoms in centoal ChiTof a few years ago. No community has such intimate human UnlolrtththS S^ve- ye'tfcs linked'^ "**^ ""' ^ ^°°^?'" was^ofeS^Tnto iS m.n tlk^ ' . , '^'t'* °" °*° day, on the one hand, by a Uvina Z. ^y..^"*- ^w'^'i^ y'*f". '^th her in the cloister; while on the S she 18 hnked with Champlain, whose ter-centenary we kre celebrating through another nun, GeneviAvede Boucherville Wh(»B fiSLr wm h^™ till the lifetime of Welhngton. From the time when Murray made his headquarters in ther convent, and the nuns knitted loninrtocSS for Uje riighlanders during the bitter winter of 1759-1760^ tWSSui^hava been the friends of every Governor, and have been visitiS^by evarTnTem! ber of the Royal FamUy that ever Mt foot in Canada!^ ^ ^ HI8T0MCAL PERSONAGES. M. DB MoNntAOlfT. .■sSSSl^S'SS^-^ M. rth " from Third Pageant 32 Deteriptton of the Pageanta m their floating priaona as frwih, says Le Jeune, "as when they left their homes, the vast ocean, with its billows and tempests, not having harmed them in the lease." In a transport of joy they fall upon their knees and kiss the soil of their new country, taking possession of it "in the name of Charity." Then, headed by the pious Governor, they go in procession to the little church to thank God for their preservation. On their way Madame de la Peltrin stops to kiss all the little red skins that she meets, and Mother Marie de 1' Incarnation cannot restrain her joy, but gathers round her the little mountaineer children to whom she is to teach " the sweet stories of old." HiBTOBiCAi. Notes on the Fourth Paqeamt. The most glorious feat of arms of the hercnc times of New France was accomplished by DoUard, Sieur des Ormeaux, in the very year in which the Iroquois had resolved to exterminate the colony. In the spring of 1660 these savages collected an army of eight hundred choaen warriors with tue intention <^ capturing Quebec, Three lUvers and Montreal. At this alarming juncture a young officer of twenty-five, Adam DoUard, Sieur dee Ormeaux, commanding Fort Villemarie, offered, with sixteen companions, to meet the foe, hoping that their audacity would frighten the Iroquois. To these seventeen FVenchmen were added forty Hurons, commanded by Anohotaha, a celebrated leader, and six Algonquins under Chief Mitiwemeg, in all mxty-four men. The vaUant little band arrived on May Ist at the foot of the Lonp- Sault, on the Ottawa, dght or ten leagues from Montreal, and camped in an entrenchment ccmstructed the {Mrevious year by the Algonquins, and drfended chiefly by stakes. DoUard decided hoe to await the Iroqu: iheii own victorious 38 De$eriptim of the Pageantt ^ . dead. To the beat of drums the train moves off uttering plaintive and mournful sounds and bearing the bodies of the dead in procession, with their trophies elevated on poles. Historical Nona on the Fifth Pageant. By a royal warrant dated November, 1663, Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, was created Lieutenant-General for Louis XIV, of all the French possessions in North America, " with power over all the generals, lieutenant-generals and all other officers both civil and military." Tracy had grown old in the service of the King. As a lieutenant-general in t he French army and commissary-general of the army in Germany, he had given many proofs of bravery in the field, of prudence in council, and of wisdom in delicate neeotiation. The King in investing him with the widest powers, assigned tr .1 as a body-guard four companies of infantry bearing the colours of the royal guards, and fitted out for his use two ships of war, the Briti and the Tenon, which sailed in company with a fleet laden with supplies and ammunition. The Marquis de Tracy, with many noblemen in his brilliant suite, left Rochelle on February 26, 1664, for Cayenne, which had recently been eeided again to France by the government of Holland. Two months were spent in the voyage and in re-establishing French domination in Guade- loupe, Martinique and St. Dominica. Tracy then sailed north for the St. Lawrence. His flagship, the Brizi, was moored at Perc4, where two ships were fitted out to conduct him to Quebec with his suite and the four companies of infantry bearing the royal colours. The members of the Conteil Souvtrain sent a royal galley from Quebec to meet him ; the citizens had prepwed a royal welcome. Tracy landed at Quebec in June, 1669, amidst acclamations of the populace such had never been equalled in he annals of New France. He was escorted to the portals of the church, where Mgr. de Laval, at the head of his clergy, received him with solemn eeremony. Tracy was conduct etl to the chancel, where a prte-ZXeu had been prepared for him. The humble marquis, however, declined the proffered distinction and knelt Uke the lowliest of his fellow worshippws on the bare floor of the church. A ft Deum "with organ and music," says a men.oir of the period, was sung, and the prelate conducted the Lieutenant-General with the same cer^^iuny to the ChAteau St. Louis, where the colonial authorities paid him their respects. Previous to M. de Tracy's arrival at Quebec, a ship sent out direct from France had landed four companies of t he Carignan-S allures regiment. It was a new and wonderful spectacle to the Frenchmen brought up in the country to see five or six hundred regular troops, preceded by martial music, march under 1 heir colours and manceuvre with a precision un- dreamed of in Canada. The veterans of the Caripan regiment had recently returned to France from the campaign in HungaiY, where they had distinguished themselves against the Turks. Most of the officers were drawn from the nubility; and many of the rank and file established themselves among their old comranions-in-anns in the $eigneurit$ of Quebec, when the regiment was disbanded. The Marquis de Tracy's household was a nevei^nding subject of admiration for the Canadians. When he issued forth in the city streets MAISONNEUVE MONUMENT. MomtmI i Hi z J i J j •A 8 ■8 J J I (? J J I r m : f Deaeription of the Pageants jy he was preceded by four pages and twenty-five guards bearing the royal colours; 8.x lackeys foHowed him, and many officers escorted him, having at their head the Chevaher Chaumont , Captain of the Guards. The IndlaSf were dumfounded by such magnificence, which surpassed their wildest imaginations and a doaen of the most influential men among the Hurons were sent to tender to the Viceroy the warmest of welcomes FIFTH PAGKANT-1865— PERSONAGES REPRESENTED. MoR. on Lavai,: — focferiodtci.-— Henri de Bemiirea, Father JirAme lAlenuuit Tv>iii« An^ /i. u.: G.nu« (J«uit) Father LouU' fii^^J^SSTt^S^^uLriN^ (faSo GiU? Jean Oaude AUoue» (Jesuit) Father Jacquee Frtiin (Jeeuit) FktW oSSi Alhi^i te^'l» tin L.'BU^'terU''""^^ ftther (S^iTM^t' (jSTJS cSbrid a» vjueyiue, Jean Us Bey, Gabnel Souart (Sutpieuui), Dominique GaUnier (Sulpician). Marquis db Tbact: — Chevalier de Ctoumont, M. de CourodlM, Intandant M. TWon. M de Uuion^Jhaniy, M. de Brrtonvimei., Sieur de BrigST^M. DoUier^e oLon M. de Maiionneuve. Henri Brnuk, Sieur de Fomainvito Mtre cSrf. ?I ru!^. toBe«^ Ajent of tie Wert I„di« Comp^iyxTFrS^dTAoSiSl »^r d^ cS^ ril!°^ ^ i^l- *"" *» M*rt^vaii PrudiTAlettSre de V^^ M^^ Chambly, M. deSalampart, Sieur deGa., M.'de Soi«l, M. cUUrole, M. dtlSiUgni. CAXIONAN-SALlkRIS Rl»mENT AND OmCEM OF TM CoLOlfT — n,«„2T.''S„^K''*'*!' ^^', Cpntre^SUf. B«by de Ranville, Tarieu de Lanaodiiw v°^iL ^ VaU *w aunt.-Den», Btcancourt, lidardeur, AbW DubSST^pf^ne 1. ^^ Captam Mwimin. CapUin Uubia, Captain limX, Ci^tSn jK~SM^db T^^»r olEl^ ^"'f '^ dXndigny de dranSfontaine, CapUinX^ij'TSuiS jlrtX^l!^^; r.* .^".t ""r*'" **• CiMkufay, Paul Dupuia (ensign), Ftmnooii i!.Tj . Ji?*'**"'J^PH'." **"• <*• St. Our., FiBB>i«Polletde la Combe PtocatS. SfciJr'l te'^i. ■ "• *f?"".' ?*" .""'T' •'S?'"" ^-badie («^aLt^LaS,4S&^; ^ 9»^^2.?^ J*"~"' ^'"S ^'°'"« Pecaudy de Contreciur^Ckptai.n FranoSli fL^^'a? f'V ^""S?" 5^~"1A"",* »i*-*-«»mp). Captain kroSont. (SStSS Ch^iSt^ l^n-^^'ii^'T a'*~!^J ■'??'"?• ^ B«'i C«Ptem * U Tour, .\ii3S. d« ui Xl Vlnrasntd'Abadie Sieur de St. Cartin, S«baatini da Villieu, Claude te BMiar iteurd. DaudewUe, Plen» de St. Paul de U Moita-Lu.«er, Pierre BtorVdtoGra^uJ: CrrmNs: — Pierre DaudonnMu, Jean aer\ai9e, Jea i L-mercier, Jean de Baaet Louis Loiiel liZ^.l'fe'Sf::i!:'**'S?^^'^."~f*'^"'^°"'»0««rt'^^ J"""*, ilathurin Fli^» 'ii-J^*u*l"'.2^'~'". *^'^' '^»' Theory, Fnnfois Hertel Sieur dala FreniAre, Francois Marie Perrot, Louis de Naio, Jean Laiunonier: La dibs: — ivrri'*?^^^"*'!'' ^& """"'"' Madame Loisel. Claude da ChevminvilJe Maria dc TSiutSS^f^f' ^i *^''/ "i^"" Etieaae, 'Madame das Orm«M, Mdto cL.LrinIT! hit?'* S*"^,?' '*S.*f»'i°'*"- »«"'g«erite Reina Denys de la RondT ™^ Fmn«i,2^'Lt*'»2?H^'A^''', "Sr- •'T!? CouiUarf, Maririe GardlT <£ Haut'prTBSu ^j^' *'"**'^^« Juchereau, Marie Toupin, JklaiKuerile le Merie de Ftfch 38 DeBeriplion of Ike Pageants FIFTH PAQEANT MONBEIONEUB DE LaVAL CEBEMONIALLT RECEIVES THE LlEUTENANT- General or Kino Louis XIV, the Mabqxtis de Tract. All Quebec ia on the ramparts: above floats a broad white standard with the fleurs-de-h t of France. The cannon roar and answer pro- oUdming the arrival of the King's Lieu tenant-General. The regiment of Carignan-Sfdidres, lately arrived from France, with their slouched hats and plumes, their bandoliers and shouldered firelocks, march to war- like music beneath their Royal colors. Below, on the river, the new Lieutenant-General has put in on a barge covered with red cloth, the signal for the discharge of cannon and the ringing of bells. In the meanwhile, the strains of an organ steal out on the air, and the procession of ecclesiastics, all the clergy of Quebec, in alb, cope and dalmatic, comes into view. First a priest carrying a silver crucifix on high, and two priests with lighted tapers on either hand. Then, surrounded by acolytes with swinging censers of fragrant incense, comes the stately figure of the great Monseigneur de Laval, arrayed in pontifical vestments, bearing a great croiier in his hand. Under a canopy borne by ecclesiastics, and saluted by artillery, he makes his way to meet the officer of the King. The Marquis de Tracy, tall and portly, clothed in a led suit ornamented with abundance of gold lace, has at his side the Chevalier de Chaumont and a throng of young nobles gorgeous in lace, ribbons and leonine locks. He is re- oetved by the Sovereign C!ouncil, and the Procureur G4n6ral addresses him in an eloquent speech, to which he answers very concisely. The cannon give a general salute and the sound of music never ceases. Then he reaches the Vicar Apostolic, kneeling to kiss his hand and the crucifix which is held for him by a priest. Laval addresses a short welcome to the Lieutenant-General, and they proceed through lines of men-at- arms, drawn from the burgesses, as far as the cathedral. The guards of the Governor, with shouldered firearms, bearing the King's colours lead the way. They seem to have brought sunshine Irom the court of France. On the way twelve Indian chieftains specially welcome the Governor, laying their bows and arrows at his feet. "At thy feet," sajrs the Huron, "thou seest the debris of a great land and the pitiable remains of a whole world, at one time peopled by an infinite number of inhabitants. These are merely the skeletons which speak to thee. The Iroquois has devoured their flesh, has burned them on the pyre and has left but their bones. There remains to us no more than a thread of life; our members which have passed through the boiling cauldrons had no longer any vigour, when, raising our eyes, we of a sudden perceived on the river those ships which have brought thee and thy brave soldiers to our land." So, while the people shout and the Indians stare, the bells riiw in a frenxy of welcome, and they make t heir way to the church from which is heard the sound of the organ and the chant of a great Te Deum. A view of the North-weu pan of the City of Quebec in 1761. ■*« 'V.-.'u?'.:, ~0^- Vww of the Caihcdrai and Jewiti Collc|c. IJtl ' i 6 Pvlianwnt Building!, Quebec. 1408. View from Pvli«nent BuiMmci, Quebec, ItOI. Deserijition of Ae^PageatUs 30 UN X3UR L'ENVr MA PRB DE DESERTER OE FRANCE W pv — ler v-ti - ti: C'i - lak ' pour Un jour I'en vi' n^pru (bis) lis Tont pru, ila I'emmftnent, (bis) ne dterter de fnuice. Cart k la Place d'Armea. Dana men ohemm j'ai raioontri Lui ont band< les yeux Ha ehatmante beaut«; Avec un mouchoir blanc .... Je me iuia arrtM; Je me aula ient; C«ta»t pour lui pirier. U belle eat nna amaot! . . . . * • * * —From Qagnoo, C'Aontm* Pojtutain* du Canada, p. 168. -VfJi^T^ifi- TE OEUM MB ItDg^. MM Cm HtSTOBicAL Notes on the Sixtb Paqeant. a;^}^ ^ ^'^ \?^° *^'*° '1'^**°' Intendant of New Prance, had charged Simon Francou Daumont, Sieur de Saint-Lusson, to twarch for copiw 3^^."" ^.i^.u'*"" ""* *? **''• poweemon in the name d the Kim of l>>anoe of atl the countoy about the inland aeaa ,„.„»t!''^ '? ^''l,^®^^' ^^^'^ ^" SMn*^!-*™©!! turned from hia winter quarters on Ufcp kuron towards Sault Sainte-Marie. Fourteen tribe* kJV '^ *^ * *>'"»«1'««^ '«•««« responded to the summons to attend ♦h! r^k'^'T """"ony ever observed west of the St. Lawrence. On !h. £S ftLi^' "^ * r!4 "^ ••^'^ overlooking the Indian village at the Sault, 8amt-Luason planted a cross and raised the arms of Pranie. FrMtB?'!!^ ^^f *-^ "'^ °^ Monseipeur the Intendant of New rranoe, says Bamt-Luason m his rec«d of this memor^le occasion, " we ! ; I. . 1 I 40 Dt$erifihoH of tkt PagtanU proceeded immediately to the country of the Ottawa, Nes-Percte, nUnda and other Indian nations discovered and to be discovered in North America, towards Lake Superior, at Her Douce, to search for mines of all lands, '^wcially copper, and, moreover, to take possession, in the name of the ^'.ag, M all the country, inhabited or not inhabited, through which we should pass, planting, in the first village, the cross, which will bring fOTth fruits 01 Christianity, and the escutcheon of France to assert the auth(»ity of lus Maiesty and the French domination. And, in order that no one may plead ignorance, we have attached on the back of the arms of France an extract m our pr e nen t minutes of the taking possession, signed by us and the following persons who were present. "Made at Sainte-lbrie du Sault (to-day aaalt-8t»-Karie) in the pnwnoe of the Reverend Fkthen Claude d'Abloa, Superior of the MiaioD* in that part of the country ; Qabtid Dnuillettei, Claude Allouei, Andr<, all of the Society of Jeam, of Sieur Nieotaa Perrot, Hie llajeatf a Interpreter in this part of the country, of Sieur ixiuis JoUiet (the diacoverer of the HiMiari(^),of Jacques Mograa, inhabitant of Three Riven, of Pierre Moreau, Sieur de la Tounne, soldier of the Qarriaon at the Chateau de Quibee, of Denis Masai, of Francois de Catavignv, Sieur de la Chevrottitee, of Jacques Joviel, of Pierre Porteret, of Robert Diq>rat, oi Vital Driol, of Qmllaume Bonhomme and other wit- (Sgned) DAUMONT DE SAINT-LUSSON. The other witnesses were the Indian chiefs who had signed the minutes of proceedings by means of figures of rximals, totems of their tribes. Nicholas Perrot reports that some representatives of other nations arriving afterwards aclmowledged also the King of France as their sov- oreign and protectee. He says also tha; Messieurs JoUiet, Mogras, Moreau, Man£, Chavigny, La^llier, Maysdre, Dupuis, Bibaud (or Bidaud), Joviel, Porteret, Duprat, Dnol and Bonhomme, present at the ceremony of the 14th of June, were some Frenchmen who were then in that locality en- gaged in trade. "This" (the taking possession), he adds, "was executed according to the instructions given by M. Talon. ... All these nations went back to their separate homes and lived many years without any trouble on either side." ("Louis JoUiet," by E. Gagnon, p. 23.) On this subject Bacqueville de la Potherie, in his "Histoire de VA- mirique Seplentnonale," relates the following facts: — "The sub-delegate (Saint-Lusson) attached to the post a plate of iron, on which the tu-ms of the King were painted. He made a procis- verlHal, which he caused all the Indian chiefs to sign with the marks of their tribe — some a beaver, others an otter, a sturgeon, a deer or a moose. Other instruments were drawn up, which were signed only by the French- men present at the ceremony. A copy was cunningly slipt between the wood and the plate, but it remained there but a short time, for the French had barely left when the Indians unnailed the plate, throw the procii- verbal in the fire, attached the arms of the King once more, fearing that Ihi* wrilina mi^ be a sorcery which would cause the death of all those who would inhabit ca resort to this place. " ' Thriee, in a loud voice and by ptMic cry,' relates Saint-Lusson, 'in the name of the most high, most potent and mighty monarch Louis XlVth of the name, most Christian King of France and of Navarre, we took posseosion of the said place Sainte-Marie du Sault, and also of lake Huron and Superior, the island of Caientotoa (now Manltoulin) and of all the othor countries, rivers,lakes,contiguous and adjacent, those discovered Mgr. Bigin. ArchbnlMp of Qutbcc The Basilica. C^bec Qurtn Mgr. Marois. V.C. U'-^ i- .dl » all their lo^S ^diSh-^^/Sf ^ '^ 5™."^ "* " -w?-i««biy i„di«. „ .yi'r;ffis,'« ftLsi'^"™* "" T. ^^^ pjj teK?.£ti£ ^^ - ^ PERSONAQEa I— Officebb. l^umOTt de 8«int-LuaBon, Chief. JoUi>t* *'^' ^**^'«*«' «>' f* Kirw II — JmuIT FATREBa. Claude d'Ablon, Superior Gabriel DreuiUettea, Claude Allouex Aiidr«. Ill— Ftk Tbad«m a.vd CoLONisn. J^ueaMogna, rierre Morwu, DeniaJfaaa*, Fraavoi* de Chavigny, Jaequea LagiUicr, Jean Mayser<, Nicolas Dupuis, Franpoia Bibaull, Jacques Joviel, Pierre Porteret, Ribert Oupmt, Vital Driol, Guillaume Bonhonune. IV — ImiAM Tuaa. (Present or represented). N>z-Percei, iJiinoi?, Athipois Malitinccns, Noiiiu't)!, BaiiabAiiiiks, Makomiteks, PouJteattemis, Oumalominis, Sb s m nnt iouacottons. Maacouttins, OuttouKmmis, Christines, Aasinopoala, Aumoussoimites, Outaouois, Bouacouttons, Niacaks, Masquikoukioeks. SIXTH PAGEANT. DaUMONT de SaINT-LU880N takes possession of the CO0NTRr OF TB. West in the name of the Kino of FraS ^ language' are kS"^ to S^I SL a'S^^^^^^ Algonquin ^ greeted with demonstratbL of wefcom^ld thrs^aS^h" 7^ P"^^ authority and stat* nfto„^„^ a "*'"'"'?* ?"« 'w Miami chief comes in Fourteen tolis the S^ WintU!l "5^* ^^ * .«"'^'» °^ *"^0" Amequin^ thrNipSinrkaSet^^i^n^'?^'^"'"'' ^^ S^> the Luason hi, come t^S^ * *° **'°^ ^'^ ceremony which Saint- I Sixth PasMot 43 DtaerijiHoH of the PageanU About the four Jasuita — Claude Dablon, superior of the miarioiu of the lakes, OslHielle Dniilletes, Claude Allouet and Louis Andr< — clad in vestments of priestk office, throng the Indians, standing or crouching, or reclining at length, with eyes and ears intent. A large cross of wood has been prepared. Dablon with solemn ceremony p > lounoes his blee- iing upon it and the cross is raised aloft for veneration. It is planted in the m>und, and the notes of the VexiUa Rtgia float out upon the air as the Frenchmen, with heads uncovered, unite in reverent song. Beside the cross is planted a post of cedar with a metal plate chargea with the royal arms. One of the Jesuits in these far shores of inland seas, offers the prayer for the long's sacred majesty. With drawn sword in one hand, Saint-Lusson raises with the other a clod of earth, as he takes possession ol the boundless west in the name ot the King. Vollejrs from the firelocks mingle with the ories of "Vive le Roi " from the French. The uproar ceases and silence is imposed upon the assembly, as Father Claude Allouei begins in the native tongue the eulogy of the great King to whose soverognty they have submitted. So incomparable was the greatness of the monarch that the Indians have no words with which to express their thoughts upon the subject "Cast your eyes," said he, " upon the cross raisea so high above your heads: there it was that Jesus Christ the Son of God, making Himself man for the love of men, was pleased to be fastraed and to die, in atonement to the Eternal Father for our sins. He is the Master (rf our lives, of heaven, cf earth and of hell. Of Him I have always spoken to you, and His name and Word . nave borne into all these countries. But look likewise at that other poet, to which are affixed the armorial bearingi ai the great captain of France whom we call King. He lives beyond the sea; he is the captain of the greatest captains, and has not his eaual in the world. All tm captains you have ever area, or ot whom you have ever heard, are mere children compared with him. He is like a maX tree, and Uu^ only like little plants that we tread under foot in walung." If. de Saint-Lusson adds his words in martial and eloquent language; how he had summoned them to receive them under the protection of tne great King beneath whose s%ay there was henceforth to be but (»e land frcm the sunrise to the prairies. The ceremony closed with a fta dt ioie And a Te Deum " to thank Qod on behalf « these rude savans that tb«y wekv now the subjects cl so great and powerful a Monarch?' VCXILLA REGIS Vtui---li Rt fit pn • • • • M • mt Historical Notkb on t» Sivbnth Paobant. An hour before daybreak on Monday October 16, 1690, M. de Vau- dreuil brought to Quebec the news that the luiglish fleet of thirty-four sail was scarcely three leagues distant fiom the city. Phips had anticipated an easy victory. Some time before an officer of the Carignan-SiUi^res Regiment had fallen into his hands; from him he hod learnt that Quebec was absolutely at his mwcy; that the fortifications were weak, the troops View of ih« Si. Uwrcncc rram the Citadel. 1901 ^^ mrm to Ch«e«i Ffonten4c ihowmg M»h.i« t-i. . 'tktn from oM Chut«i Si. Louii iVl The HouM of ihe CoMcn Dot "Here died Wolfe VKioriout " I75» Wolfe *nd Monic«liT 1128 SmimcI de ChampUm — Founder of Quebec. I Ml Ercct«d 1 199 Jacquei Ctriier ShenWtllict M«« itmn and itr WtlM KilM ky nttauan. >m >nic*lin Sonic oi Qiitet) Victoria In Vicioru Pirii. Qiabtc Wll > WilM l-*val Mofumcni Nur Archbiilu^'i P4kc*. ^ifcn^ Sm l« Cap A Sin«i m ih* Lownr Towm In Memory of iha Quobw con- "•*«« w*o M « Seuh AfriM uis de la Forqua dit La Couture. Aniir^ Foumier. Pterre O^ian dit Orltena. Bertnuid Urt dit Laramie. Jean Langlois. Piem Martin dit Lafortune. tkuiiei Morsau dit Dasioriera. Charles CatUs. Dumont. Philippe Osfcneur. Pierre Guiilnr dit I.vonnais. BartMMmi Unsloiii. Jean Lanr (or iJarv) dit Lafleur. Daniel llatan dit fjifortune. Pierre Provoux. Count ra FaoimifAC. r>Wnv^&!*?'.^'S?" "■'^■"'f.J''''"'''^ •**«•** •*• Vftudreuil. Jean Bochart de Cham- RSli I r^'*' *i°°SSl" '*.*^ifrM!: <«w''«»'y of the Count), Loui»-J«iopt .lAuteuU, vlfJ- 4 ^tr*'"- ^ ^h- ■', K^ 'V""' ^"^ t^"^ «*• 1* Ron.1,.. Loili. Rouer de vuieiay^de MonsMfnat, Charles Denwde Vitr«, Pierre de Jovbert Seigneur de Maraon •t de doulanges, Uuis Th4andre (Artier de Loibiniira, flerre Di^is da la Ronda, 44 Dttaiftiim of tk$ PageanU PiwM RoUawn (CkmOier (h St. MdNl), Fma^ da C9Mkvkinr 8r. tU la Cheviotiira, IUii< RoMnMui (Mioa da Bfaaoaour), Fiam Le Moyna d'IbarviUa, Louia Perrot (Attocner of tha Siiic). Fimnfoia Maria Perrot (dovamor of llontnal), Fianooia Blarie lUiiaud d'AvMM daa lIaloiMa,ChailM Aubert da la ChoiayetPaptain Hem DeMaTrae, 8r. de Rten. BarthMmr Fmnaiii BonqpiaiiUi* St. d'HautaviUa, (SeoreUiy to FioBtMMM), NiaolM d'AiUabowrt, STda Mantabt, liaier da OaUifat. CHimm$.—rkxn Fnan da Najran, Dinia BobaiKe, Jean Ifartel, Henri de St. Vin- eent, Aleandre le Oatdeur, Etteana Boudiaid, Jean de Launov, Hmothfe Roiowl, dmriea Barin, mehel Cnmi, SbnoB Denia, Jaeqoei Oouidcaa, Chariee Oannoiiebiaae, da aoNJ, JiMqnw BiMid, Thonaa de la Na««li«ra. Auguatui Kouer Sr. de la Oerdon- LmNn.— Louiae Eluabeth de Jogrbert (MarquiM da Vaudreuil), Louiw Catherine d'AiUeboiMt, Louiae le Oardeur, Louiae Chartiar de Lotbiniire, Louiie de Cfaavigny, LcHdM Catherine Bobinaau, Lmdaa Uvaaaeur, AMiUque Penot, LouiM Biwrd, Oene- ▼i«ve Juehereau, Marie le Oardeur, Catherine da Coatdneau, Marie-Anne le Neuf de la Ptttarie, AnaAique Denia, Maiie Rente Oodefrcqr.Cetherine le Neuf, Madeleine de Lalande, Charlotte Denia, Ancttque Denia, Marie-Madeleine Chapouz (wife of the Intendant Champicnv), Marie-Anne de Uuieav, Louiae Madeleine du Piiy, Claude de Saintes. Madelaine Ix>idae Levaiaeur, Marie Catherine Bourgonniire, Louue AncOique de Galli- fet, Marie Aubert da la Chenaye. '~v m ITomm.— Marie-Anne Bouehaid, Marie-Anne Fleureau, Marie Oeoeviive Berthier, Louiae RouMel, GeneviAva Maeart, EUiabeth Damouia, Marie Fianooiae Chartier, LouMe CrMi<, Jeanne Rente Oourdaau, Louiae BoMue, EUnbeth Hubert, Jeanne CfaUle Cloaae, Louiae ABgdiqne Routhier, Louiae Chartier, Fimn^oiie Quilleteau, Marie- Anne Bri«re, Marie Leray, Mariunite Vauvril, Marie-Anne Renouard. SEVENTH PAGEANT More than eijrt>ty years have passed since Champlain built his Abila- turn de Quebec. The population is now mora than 1,500. The town is fraouented by rugged merchants and traders, blanketed Indians and wild bushrangers. Frontenae, who is se\enty years of age, loves pomp and circumstance. It is a worid which wants nothing to make an agreeable society. The Oovemor-Oeneral has at tendants, nobdit y , officers and t roops. There are rich merchants, who live in affluence; a bishop and numerous seminary; RecoUets and Jesuits; circles as brilliant as many in the Old World. The Governor's and Intendant's ladies make panics of pleasure in summer; many a dance and brilliant assembly helps to pass the long evenings of winter. Th«re are ominous signa, however, of danger from without. A few ■pies from New England have i^tpeared at intervals at Quebec; one has been capttired and sent in chains to France. There are rumours of in- vasion. Frontenae with his wonted energy haa striven to vouae the home government from its lethargy. A powerful New England fleet under Sir William Phips had already sailed for the St. Lawrence, and a messenger brings word of the enemy's approach. The excitement which ensues is ahnoat a panic, until Frontenae, bold and fearless with warlike energy- assuages the fears of the populace. His bravery fills them all with enthusiasm; they resolve to die if need be, but neverto yield to the foe. The fleet is anchored a little below Quebec, and a boat , bearing a flag of truce, has put out from the Admiral's ship. It brings a subalt em officer, the beaier of a letter from Sir William Phips to the French rammamler. Completely blindfolded, the messenger is taken by two sergeants and led lo the Governor. Hie guides draw him hither and thither through a noi.s, jostling crowd, and laughing women cry: " Voitaf Montieur Colin-. \faUlard, qui menl noiu faire vi$tiet " Amid a prodigious hubbub intended to bewilder . ! 1 I) I * iMa/M« 45 F«,-i!l;«*JSS°*^ *•*? envoyrecovere hia breath and hiaoomiXMare ulut.. o'clock, and thrhe^^X^e^r^SAfcXr"^''^ 'J J".*?" nation arises; and Valrannee caS^nutVl^* pk^ • "^: ^.'"^ "^ ""*'«- and that his man ourfrttrh^ h^^ p ^P" '" ""^'"'l* ''"^ » P'"»«. moment, andTton ^iVo t£ ^o^" ^™'"""*° ~"'™'' »'*°»«'' ^^ » punish 'such oTal^Mv^Sr^ '"''*''^ '° •" •*»" *°"ld •>«* '•« to boldly'de3sT«m"trS:Jl^?:f'''^ .'"•*"" ^•"'»'» "««?»'<">. but •'No/'retu™From"ni '•I^K'L! "^'^ "* '^/'"f witWn the hour. SI TO TB M£TS ANCUILU ** "■ . *. « 11 i t • CtST LA TOUUTte CMSE (»'<*« ckc tlmrm*t»km.m-mm^m Hmtmiimui ■» <•»*«» B»-*-«l<« C'MtkpoMbttojBiw Ohii pond 4w ngHi EU* v» poBdi* on bwu p'tH eoM Pour MB p'tit qui vm but' dodiohe, Ell' v» pMxlra un beau p'tit eow Pour ton p'tit qui va uir* dodo, Dodiebe, dodo. • • • * Qagnon, CAotuon* Popularrft (hi Concdo p. 364. Ccot k pooMte jbum Qui poBd dMM ka MdiMi, Bl' Tk pondra im taan p'tit «oee Pour MB p'tit qui w fui' dmiidM, Ell' VB poadiv UB bwu p'tit rooo Pour Mm p'tit qui vb (air* dodo. Dodidhe,)' ' sit PHIPS SEN VAT-EN CUERRE IN ROULANT MA BOULE ^^^MII^S ■mImim kwbtfnriMl' lanirkriiia tM-b. Ob- nlr <■«•«■.>>-<'« <-«>« EnnrfM •• • * • • tM-k TlMtaMlMW* ^w E^ rouhut ma boula-le roulaBt, En roulant ma boula. Ceat pour en hire im lit de eamp, En roulant ma boule, Pour y coueher toua Wa patmnts. Rouli, roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant ma boule roulant, Ea roulant ma boule. Derri^r* ehea-nous, ya-t-un 4tang, En roulant ma houle. Troia beaux caaarda a'en von; b:u(tisaat, Rouli, roulant, ma boule rouloat. En roulant ma boule roulant, En roulant ma boule. —From Qagnon, Chaiuoiu Pvpmhirrt Hu Canatia, p. 12. HmoucAL Notes ox thb Final Pageant. The Two Battles or the Plains of Abraham. It is historicaily incorrect to speftk of the BallU of the Plsiiu, tnit correct to say the Bnttlet. The f^rst was Wolfe's victory won on the 1.3th of September, 1759, sffainst Montcalm. The second was L6vis' victory DferiptUm of the PagtmOt 43 trm Umwy on the 28th of April, 1760. In both bAttlea the ultimate NMlt WM entirdy detcnnined by the ftituh Navy, whoM great aquadrons at QortMo were playing their part in the world-wide "Maritime War," aa Pitt'a impoial campaigns were thai called in EngUnd. The fleet and convOT und«r Saunden made Wotfe'a victory poenble; Hawke'a victory » 81^*^ "^ '* <'*»"^; ^^^ ColvUle'e arrival made Uvia' aecond Battle of the Plains utterly barren- all was lost save honour. Mmtcalm is, perhMs, the greatest commander of all; he had a perfect Braq> of the strategy of the whole war in Canada, and he won the day at Onnga m 1786, Fart WUUam Henry in 1767, Ticonderoga in 1758, and Montmorency m 1780, It is untrue and unjust to say that he rushed his army weathleas to defeat. He formed it with due care, and had he delayed the arnval (rf Bougainville would have been neutralised by the increased ■treivtb of Wone s pcdtkm. Wdfe, however, does not suffra- by comparison. He dealt with the problem as he found it, and solved it triumphantly. He had the inestim- able advantages °4.2"'' No.thamptonshires. was raised only in 1755. 8. The 2nd^ " Monckton's," and 3rd. "Uwrence's," battaUons of the "Rnv«I week"i».;fe'«l°n 1^^^ «'«'^"^"' -» ~i-d ^ 1757, within a "■ ISf fl ^' ■' '""'* '^ remembered, was a much imater force than Wnlfp'. lif«i-. army The fleet was a q.iarter of the whole strength'TthV3y!^here wire 49 n"'X';:d"ov:;*2M'''" "'^"' ""' *'«' t-^ponsILd auxili.orTe«lTiSwnds' Admiral Saunders was one of the stars of the service, even in those m»t duv w« had been First Lieutenant of the Centurion on Anso™; ^ebratoi^o^ m^H t^! aX^6^?faSSroffMiSrr°a„°i t' 'ij^V' "<>"««"• ^t to t\^l^irrSfn4'^ aiier riyng^B lauure off Mmorca and he dosed his career as one of the bMt Pimf l^.^. 0. thePm6rofe.andXfoilowi'ngy^.S;^tteTra?B„^^cU^^^^ him ^^^ey'l^'^flj'^^^b.SjT K^-^"!'" ^ »»»"' ^ »' these irregular, with o^n SfiSss: ^sL'of'.ht'?^r^^i„x"fi°™t"'Batir of iM r^ LES PLAINES. Ic: brillent gravA) en reliefs dclatants Ces noma qne dans le bronre entreUoe I'Histoire: B J tomb(5s Id, lea braves combattants. foudroyfe dans un r6ve immorte) de victoire. le temps passe, et le temps, bouleversant le sol Du choc des r&siments efface I'Apre empreinte: 1* temps passe et le temps emporte dans son vil liCS funebms launers de la supr&ne ^treinte. Le panache d'«clairs s'^teignit. Sainte-Foy Ue soleil et verdure au printemps, se d&jore: L espoir des beaux soldats de la Heine et du Rov Monte au coeur d'une fleur mourante et saigne encore. HT'flJ ?*"^' '* ".*"^' »"'' murmures d'oreueil. cJkS^J" •'~**' ""V't" dont lea hauteura sr t pleine«. if .'*•.''* ""H?B en rivajte, le deuil *^ ' Qui ptane sur la t«rre h«ro!que des Plaina Filial Pagwmt Deacription of the Pageanta Dniis V' be glorieuz dea aouvenin ipan, L'illi p lipultute ouverte par Ui bomoe, De SIX "O gradins montant de toutes parts, l£>nt ...Lie per le sang des victoires, surplombe. La Fiance et I'Angleterre inclinent leun drapeaux Devant le promontoire ot la gloire repose, Et range de la paix couronne les tombeaux Des palmes dc I'honneur et de I'apoth^oae. — Nirfe Beaucfaemin. PINAL PAQBANT. The shouting of the populace has died away; all is still. Nearly seventy years in passing by have brought us to another scene. There floats up out of the distance a full-throated rythmical song and, as its volume swells, there appear, regiment by regiment, marching shoulder to shoulder, two great and victorious armies. Beneath their floating standards they file on in a great parade of honour. The present is joining hands with the past to the glorifying of a splendid future. The heroes whose lives were given here in the past, that this song might be sung to-day, stand rank by rank before us in all the bravery of uniform and military pomp. The great and significant unison of voices is singing — " Ton histoire est une ^pop4e, Des plus brillants exploits. Et ta valeur, de foi tremp^, Protigera nos foyers et nos droits. " We are looking down the vista of years now. There is Jacques Cartier with the up-Ufted cross, pioneer of a land " qui salt porter I'^p^, qui salt porter la croix. " There, the noble minded and devoted Champlain who has realized that pioneer's great ideal and has set firm the foundation of a Christian colony; the Uttle band of those whose self sacrifice, whose constant prayer and unremitting toil have taught so profound a lesson and relieved such count- less suffering; the religietues de QiUbec; the hero Dollard with his hero followers; the great Bishop without whose steadfast faith and firm hand Canada would not be what she is; Saint-Lusson, with the pomp of temporal and spiritual power; the courageous and proud spirited Frontenac; aJl are wrested for a moment from the jealous years, and that apotheosis of loyalty, obedience and courage, that great muster of warriors, whose spirit has passed into the life of this country are now singing with the rest, "Lecri vainqueur: Pour le Christ et le Roi. " DiEu Sauve Le Roi. Genebal Salute. QoD Save the King. Wolfe'f Cove- 1(33 Gen. Rich»rd Moni^omery who fell ai Qyebec 1775 Col. Arnold Wounded •! QKbec. 1775 Death of Montgomery at CJyebec. 1775 After the Ptiniing of Trumbill "'"^'^l^^'^'H^orO^^. W«to *t Th. Ibooj*!, Mg, Rou.1,/.,. <»- *'«—'• MaMtoto • rlaalHto. J.m. MiisiebrO.UralU*. PiAKO Tky brov i, „„»,), "iUi lun. of «| ^ * />>' ■ mu tit . rt ■ ""^ChrutandlheKingl" rotflter, no» foyer, et no, droin . tt nip^rons -omme noa ni.». GOD SAVE THE KING. AMANGED BT VHIUFiailZ AntfnittMiMtoit. TOICI. riANO . ,, I, ;-. d : f m: m: f 1 ..-.r: 4 1 r: 4'. t._ U':'- |4^ fl. J r If r M " ^ ' '^ ' ' ' ■' 1 ^ gn . rioiM Kiiif , Loog live niir H . bl» King, Cud w* lh» Kto». O Lord our GodI atim, Scatter his enemjea, And make them fall, Gt.'in»-R«idaM» tt PriaM of Wail* in IMO. Chonh of Notra Dum Am Vietoim. ChstOH FrartOMC BoUl— Sit* of Fort St. LouK— aiid (AatOMi St. Louii. Hm ^^imiUii, Frontooae and Chr- ChampUn Moannkont. Monumant to Wolf* and Montcalm. Banuea. Arehbiihop'iFalao*. BeniaanrofQMiMe. Laral Cniranity. Laval Mow CityBalL VnuliaeOomBt. Hontoabn bnriod li*n. ■tfdi OMlMdial— iH* of B*coll*t Cho-ct. Chalrr^n' C%iinh. MonuiMat to Soatb Afrioaa ooldiMa, I90S. Garruon Club. Montcomaryburiod bar*, 1776. PnrliaiiMatBaildiiiv. Good 8bwb*rd Ooavant. Ron Rn* FlMton— MoBtealm'a lin* dimwn. ttp ban. f7M>— «t* of Fraoeh ba't*riM *r*et*d by Utm. 17(0. Fnneiaean Oomroat— caati* of Froneh line, 17M. Tb* 8nt land fraaled to Abiabam Martin, after a bom Ibe Plaina of AbrabaB Tare named, «*■ in