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Laa eartaa. planchaa, taMaaux, att., pauvant Ura fllm4a « daa taux da rMuetion diff«rants. Lorsqua la doeumant aat trop gratid pour *tra raproduit mt un saul olich4, 11 sst fHm4 A partir da I'angla supMaur gaucha, da gaueha i droita. at da haut an baa, i* pranant la nombra d'Imagaa nde«asaira. Laa diagrammaa suivanta iUustrant la m4thoda. ■# ■« '-.W S.i. O^HE( a?i3:iLj-e*<-' Ho 4 ^, Isiui ©UtPEs _^ _^ V/--7- /'^ ■# ■;to: — QUEPKCZ: oA. BY E. T. D. CHAMBERS. ./ PUBLISHED BY THE S/ L. SWETT PUBLISHING CO., ttople Buildmg, NlQNTREAL. | ,432 Broadway, Nkw Vork. -t ^^ikL,-^\l^i»,i' , *^*\^y% .. » / i^A-*, JV^.iti' ; «,.«5V. 4.** ^\'x»^iL» ^ fe t >BiMi» d-i^ >i |. . V¥, w- A.* THEY occupy thI so /■%,■*• . : . -y- BECAUSE ,; IIL HALLOWED BY THE HEROIC DEEDS OF ^HE FIRST EURC/PEAN INHABITANTS OF CANADA, COLONIAL MASTERS OF HALF A CONTINENT, FROM WHOM MANY ./>**> OF THEM MAY CLAIM A LINEAL DESCENT ; AND BECAUSE THeW HAVE FIVE TIMES HONORED ME " WITH ELECTION TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF QUEBEC, . I DEDICATE THIS BOOKLET TO THE , ELECTORS OF ST. LOUIS WARD, " LE PREMIFIR QUARTIER " ' , OF THE "OLD CITY OF CHAMPLAIN. '"^ .%.- f ■ *- -^•tf y- #-^'' )S OF A, T ; .^- f>"" ■*^ ^-■v ■';... A. ri 5^8 " She gleams above her granite throne ; Her gray walls gird her ample zone ; She queens the North, supreme.jalone." O sings the poet of the Sierras. And in introducing his inimitable picturt|bf Quebae, he sounds for us the following melodious passage : — " One enters npon the story and descriptionoof this wonderful city witk great hesitation and a feeling of unfitness. For Dickens, I^Moine, Liancroft, Howells, and indeed a hundred of others have sAid great things of these battlements, cemented together by the best blood of centuries. Quebec is the storehouse of American history, and the most glorious of cities, — beautiful, too, as a picture." And wh4t Joaquin lyiiller found wonderful and glorious and' beautiful in Quebec is juBt what tourists of every class and every land find equally so. She stands at the very, threslield of this strong and impatient New World, in this age of progressive activity and enterprise, like a Jittle patch of mediaeval Europe, transplanted, it is true, upon a distant shore, but Shutting out by her mural surroundings the influences that the whole of the surrounding continent has failed 16 exercise upon her. «^ k .•t -.#* *^ JL^ WiliflLai- W U I ,.M^l,t£.^\t*,'^S » ■^v > ^ (^- Hard by the nineteenth century Niagara of relentless worry and bustle, yet apparently beyond the reach of that resistless torrent of commercial competition and turmoil of coh- tentionfor financial supremacy, she continues upon the calm and even tenor of her peace^. ful. way, unmindful of the disquiet and unrest prevailing without her walls. Ti»^e Works few changes in Quebec. True to the traditions of her pious founders, she remains to this • day the city of Champlain and LavaL^he battlements behind which she remains seclud- ed were erected by the religious feiVpr, missionary zeal and enduring fortitude qf " the pioneers of France in the New World," "strengthened by the language, the customs and religion of the «' Old World, France," wlience they sprung. Cemented further, as the American poetso beautifully expresses it, " by the best blood of centuries, " these battle- ments have successfi^ly dpfted alike the ravages of ruthless time and relentless foe. Her gates, thrown wide and hospitably opifcn to peaceful visitors, have be^ defiantly closed imho face of invading foes, .^d even under the most adverse circumstances capitu- lation was only agreed to on condition that the peculiar fortifications of her people, ertcted by the devotion of their early 'leaders, should be perpetually maintained. It was this maintenance of their ancient ramparts that secured to England the allegiance of her FtenCh subjects in th^N^w World, when her Englisli-speaking colonists broke into open revolt. It secured t|j(Rritain the fortress of Quebec, and caused the repulse of the brave -lyibnt- gomeiy. J^stands to-day an apparently insurmountable barrier to the annexation of Canada to the United States, and elicited from a prominent French Canadian statesman the assurance that the last gun in defence of British soveieitjnty in Canada would be fired by a French Canadian. No Chinese wall was ever more -jealously guarded or more remarkable in its effects upon the territory which it enclosed, than these pecvriiar old battle- ments of a comparatively modern city. " Progress, "^^ays Joaquin Miller, " has gone by the other way. No greasy railroad has yet come sO^ching and screaming up the heights that Wolfe climl)ed. She sits above the tide of ixommercc." The number and influence of her priests and churches', the wealtli and dimensions of lier conventual estab- lislmients, the piety and virtue of lier people, the variety and exten^of her educational institutions, the unexcelled beauty of her natural surroundings, the absence of comtner- cial turmoil and competition, and tlie story of her glorious past, are alike the objects of her pride. ■ 'A .iJ » - -ftil t^_ ^^^ 1.) ■• ■^ •■•, r '^'^ ^^ ui^incf^ 6 see ()|uebec. S ,a nile, American tourists .do not see Quebec at all, not even those that visibthe city for the fxpress purpose of doing so. In a quaint little volume printed "in 1831, by Tliomas Gary S^ Co., and entitled " Quebec and its Environs," the author says : • . . t- " It is^tq be observed that our American friends unfortunately visit Quebec as the last lion ii\^ their tour, and giencrally disembark from the ste^mljoat from .Montreal, remain ^24 hours, and tlien return without seeing anything except a cursory view of the city-^ whereas Quebec' and the environs abound in the most romahtic and charming views certainly^ot equalled in the Canadas, and to all admirers of the beauties of nature afford- ing a rich treat." And what was true in 1S31 is equally sd in iSqT. ' i - There is[.scarcely a foot 1/ere which is not historic ground, which is not consecrated, by well-establijiihexl fact or trat\ition, to the memory of deeds of lieroisra, of instances of undying piety and^fa'ith. The daring,' explorers of half a C9niinent, European heroes of martial strife and strategy, and tlicir dusky clilcftain allies, noble matrons and self^ •sacrificing missionaries, whose doings live for ever in the burning pages of Pnikm^i, Levef, Charlevoix and Cas'grain, have left beh nd them here monuments of their zeal for'' the cause of religion and fatherland, or immortalized the- ground which once they trod the soil'for which they fiercely contended, the spot where first they ])lanted the symbol of their religion, or the dust which, they rede carefully preserved traditions of the historian and the novel- ist. Often in laying out the ^jlaii fbr a sifmir.er 'trip extending over several days and perhaps weeks of time, will' he begrudge a couple of days to the city and environs of Quebec, in his api arent anxiety to get back to the heated sands of J^ew England'water- ing-places, or the din and confusion of the large centers of American civilization, with their attendant biistle and heat and seven storey hotels. A oursory glance from Dufierin Terrace of the magnificent view whicii spreads itself around and ^below sometimes satisfies hinu that he has thoroughly familiarized himself with scenery such as is seldom equalled and n'ever excelled; which forms the subject of many a .noted and wonderfully painteti canvas, and upon which eminent artists have feasted^thtir eyes day after day for months together. The city itself and its imme- diate locality have afforded new and varied treats at every turn, for several weeks at a time, to royal and[noble visitors, such as theTrince of Wales, the late Duke of ?^lbany, the Princess Louise, Prince George of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, the late Dean -Stanley, Francis Parkman, Joaquin Miller W. 1.). Howells, Archdeacon Farrer the late Matthew Arnold, and many others whose pames stancfhigh On the roll of fame or of lettei's. ' I " .> ^ •s " ^ '■ *M ,r isit'the ited *in s," ihe as the )ntieal, of the \ views afford- t Crated, aces of (jCS of id self, km^i, ;eal for'' 'i trod^ lynibol St wlio Mowed hen lie e, and the red iiovel- ys and ons of water. I, with s itself lira self iiibject artists initne- s at a Ibany, Dean T, the e or of % it ♦ -m- '* % 1., .^<.** i «■ ■ "• ■ i ,, ■> s. % » a. ■ 9- '. ^ %' — "> v»'. >t t >« w X>- "■ I. . V 3 C -. > ■#1 / t^ 8 -« . ^} -*p"'- Nor are Quebec's siuroumlings of less interest than the attiaclions of the city itself. I':iiropean travellers have traced the greatest resemblance between the country, the houses ami the memlers of the French Canadian peasantry and' tho.sc of the old French Prov- inces bf Normandy and Picardy. Ne>!v lines of railway and colonization roads have opened up comSumication- with chains of latge lakes, wonderful in their picturesque s:enery, and not less remarkable in the marvellous swarms and superiority of the finny tribes wlii'ch in!i,\l)it them. Whether the tourist at* Quebec be sportsman, naturalist or geologist,ie of liL-r l.-ading citizens s'le professes no archilectural sujieriority. Her dajms as ,t summer resort are, however, unsurpassed upon the conti- nent of A'merica. .If these claims are brouglu more prominently to the notice of the tourist by means of^Vs little book, in so successful a manner as to induce him to remain here for a sufticient length online to investigate ihein fir himself, the author knows that ' he may count iijion his sineeiv an.l la^ttng gratitude. Look on the visiJn .uvakeiied in llie po tic mmd of the brilliant author of ',' Rough- , ingit in the bush,"- MisMoody (Snzanna Strickland):— " " Every perceinion of my mind became absorbed into the one sense of seeing, when, upon rounding Point Levis, \\e east pnchor before' (Juebec. Whftt a scene! Can the' Vorld produce another? I'dinbuigh had been llie /v,r« ,;/e,i/ to me of all that wrfg*» beauti/ul in nature, a vision of the .Xoithern Highlands .had haunted my dreams across the Atlantic ; But all these past recollectiohs f.ule before the present of QueJK^^c. Nature has ransacke.l all hej grandest elements fo form this astonishing panorama. My spirit fell pr(»;trate before the scene, and I melted involuntarily into tears," The late Heniy Ward Heech'er recorded his impressions of ' (Quebec thus:-" Queer old Quebec I of all the cities on the continent of America, the quaintest. Here was n ' small bit^of mcdiieval Kurope perched upon a rock and dried for keeping, in this north- east corner of America,'a cutio.sity that has not its equal in its kinf tk name '' Duckc-" UK very origin of <^)ucbec's name hfis been associate(l,i|»"ith legend by the chronic- lers of lie'r" loniantic past. Some of the derivations Ventured by etymologists are as ingenious as they arc fanciful. The word " Quebec " has been compared with ' the- " Kc]iek '■ of the original occupants of the site, said to have been the expression of welcome used by them on the appearance at Sladacona of Jacques Cartier and his expe- ditionary force, in view of their hesitation to meet them, and which the Frenchmen con- sidereil as equivalent to their own DcJbarquez t Others again have traced the origin of the name to the exclamation " Quel bee " ! (what a cape), attributed to a Norman sailor at his first glance of Uie rocky promontory. It is now all but universally conceded that the name^is of Indian origin. It is first found in Ih^vriting of Champlain, who says : — "We came to anchor at (Quebec, wliicji Is a straiflHhe river of Canadai ^ "- and Abb6 Faillon, commenting upon this statement adds ; " This name, which in the lang;uage of the Micmac Indians, signifies \straits ' or ' narrowing ' of a river (^retrecisseinent); ahdGham- jilain's manner of speakin'};, in calling (,)iicb(.c, not the town yet to be built, but the*--' locality peniH'd up front the river, shows how utterly mifoumlod are the other interpreta- tions imagined for tiic name of (^)uebec\ Charjevoix in liis "Journal '' addressed to the Dticlicss of Lcsdiguieres, writes : — " Ab(jve"the Island (of Oilcans) the riyer narrows all at once to such an extent, that in front of ()uebec it is not more than'a mile wide. It is this which has given to this place the name of (^)uebcio or (^ueWc, wliicii in the Algonquin language signifies ♦ a' narrowing.' The Abenaquis, whose language-is a dialect of the Algonquin, name it > Quelibec, which signifies ' that which is dosed," because from the mouth of the Chaudi^re by whic,h* river these Indians come to (,)ueriec fr(jm the vicinity of Acadia, the Point of Levis, which laps over the Isle of Orleans, entirely hides tjie South Channel. The Isle • ' of Orle.an- hides the North Channel, so that pit port of (^)uebec appeals (from Chau di6re) to consist only of a lar^e Tiav'" According to Rev. J. M. Hellenger, an old mis sionary to wlioui the Micmac hinguage was perfectly familiar, " (^)uebec " comes from i thft^word " Kil'bcqud,^ wliicii lie frequently heard applied by his Indian guides to " a itarrowing of the waters formed by two tonj^ues or points of land protnidiiig into them.'' r,escaibot and tiu'_^l)l)6 Malo a;.;iee witji Messrs. (jhxrlevoix and lii.-l!enger, an 1 Park . ni.ih (I) is ofopunoii tliat tlie origin of the name can no longer be double 1. a^**': 10 V \ ^. Landing of Jaciiies Cartier at Stadacona. Jac(jtie»C«iti€t'i Fir»l Inlervicw wiili ihe Indiann. \ ''^^mafm.rmB,^ XU St- ."Soui^ ^otcl 1pS%Y far the largest, the most important and most comfortable h^ I^N] St. Louis, which i^s managed by Mr. William G. O'Neill, ^■■■■* rence Hall, Montreal. « It is (Ae hotel of Quebec, built upon historic ground, having upon'' Montcalm's old headquarters, -and upon the other the former town Vietoiia's father, the late Duke of Kent, when commander of the British forces m Can ada. This latter structure is still known by the^ame of " Kent House." Quebec's most wonderful attractions are grouped about the St. T-ouis Hotel, Behind it is the Citadel, and in front the Basilica, the English Cathedral, the Ursuline Convent and the site of the old Jesuit Barracks. Duflerin Terrace, with its famous view of the StT Lawrence and surrounding country, is only half a minute's walk from the Hotel. The St. Louis has accommodation for 500 guests, and is the resort 6f all American tourists. It has recently been completely transformed and modernized throughout, being re-filted with new sys- tem of drainage and ventilation, passenger elevator, electric bells and lights, etc. — in fact, all that modern ingenuity and practical science can devise to promote the comfort and convenience of guests has been Supplied. Kli Perkins is only one of many who has writ- ten that the i/ienu of the St. Louis Hotel is the finest in Canada. Xuffcrin levvacc- TM'OT more than a slone's throw from the St. Louis Hotel is DulTerin Terrace. It ■ 11^- '* ^" incomparable promenade and the pride of Quebec. It i.sa planked plat-, ^ ^ form jutting out along the very brink of the clilT, where the southerly part of the Upper Town looks over and down towards the^t. Lawrence, 182 feet below. It is 1500 feet long. There is not such anqther in the whole world. The original Terrace bore the name of Durham, after a former popular (lovernor General, and was only 250 feet in length. It was Lord Dufferin who suggested the prolongation that was made in 1879, and whose name it has since borne. The city pai.1 the cost of the work, amounting to $13,000, and the plans were designed by Chevalier Baillarge, City Kngineer. Unfor- tuntitely it has become necessary to condemn, as un-^afe, and to close against the public, a small portion of this magnificent promenade, at the end that lies just under the Citadel. This is in conse(iuence of the disastrous landslide that occurred from the face of the rock immediately below the end of the lerrace on the fatal night of the 19th of September, 1HH9. The rocky debris may be seen below, that m its fall cruslietl and buried seven or eight lunises to a dei)tli of twenty to thirty feet, hurling between lifty and sixty souls into eternity without a moment's warning. What a matcliless landscape hursts upon the delighted Iteholder from this magnifi- cent Terrace 1 Koiest, field and flood, the pale, soft blue of distant hills and the over hanging rock of the frowning granite Cape, sweetly undulating meadow slopes and the wild grnndeur of ytm rugged sleepy cHfls, fertile fields l>espangled with the neatly white- (1) " I'he !'ii.nccr< of France iii llic New \V,.rU\," i>:\);«_3'", "lilion of iaR3. p 12 ^ washed houses of comfortable Canadian farmers, and tl>e broad bosom of the majestic St Lawrence, heaving beneath the burden of gigantic greyhounds of the Atlantic, saugy little tugs, thnfty market steamers and white winged ships of the Canadian timber-fleet ;^nture has here indeed been most lavish in the distribution of her favors, and this lerraceand the Citadel above are the spots whereon to stand to view to the very best ^ advantage oneof the most brilliant combinations in the whole round of her kaleidoscopic / wonders. Let us stand a while and feast the eye upon the unrivalled scene. Then we may .cl.mb the grassy slope of the Clacis which slopes down from the edge of the moat that separates ,t from the King-s.Bastion. We may reach the same coign o'vantage by ascend- .ng the n.glu of step, at the extremity of the Terrace. From no other standpoint in the old c.(y may tlu: tourist better view the remarkable panorama of scenic beauty stretching away out from the Gibraltar of America than from this King's Bastion in the Citadel of Quebec, whence rises the fla^rstaff that floats the emblem of Britai.^s sovereignty in this old French IVovince. We are -alongside of it now, with only a deep, ditch between. The bold heights of Levis on the other side of the stream, the bro.id expanse of water looking towards te sea, w.th the picturesque Isle of Orleans stretching down from opposite the Falls oi Mont- morenc. to b.dow the saintly shrine of the miracle-working St. Anne, form a picture . _ whose beaut j: is but seldom equalled and around which clusters such a stock of legend- ary lore and historic me.norios that the very air .seems haunted by the .spirits of dead samts ami heroes. Nbr is the .setting unwo.thy of the picture. Those are the Li^uren. fan mountams that form the deep blue background stretching away in the distance to- wards the north for nearly two hundred unlcs, and full of the interest excited by all far ., Tiorthern latitudes. T,ll within the last few .years the interior of this mountain region had ^ - been practically .an unknown land. Many of the secrets of these Laurentian mountains ' st.ll remain locked within thvir own bosoms. Recent surveys have brought to light many - • interesting facts conce^ping them, hitherto veiled in obscirrity, but they coy.r thousands of square miles of country which the foot of the white mitfi has scarcely yet troddep We cannot cr.,ss the moat into the Citadel here; s<. will again descend to fite Terrace • On fine summer evenings this piom.nade is the lesort of thousands of citizens, always including a large representation of the youth and beauty of ( )uebec. Two or three times a week there .s music on the Terrace, and on ban.l nights it ,s thronged with fashion and gaiety. 1 liat is <• . ^HERK on your left, a pretty littU. sha.ly retreat, oUhi^h the principal attraction IS the t^Mn.face5•k' f~,lit-i',- cse'■■^%>f^''!■<:w>J,',^g|" r.'^m^^ ont of the very front oi the Terrace to get a good vi,ew/of the antique Lower Town. Narrow as is the ledge ^upon which it is" built, it was at bne time much narrower slill, for a good por- tion of it has been reclaimed from the riVer. 2:|e gall i>f gjlonteomer^- ^OLLOW with the eye the single narrow street that skirts around the foot of Cape Diamond, hemmed in by the river until it is compelled to hug the cliff for safety. That is Champlain street ; and in that narrow pass, immediately b^low the Cita- del, the brave Montgomery fell, mortally wounded, in the snow, at the head of his'men, in his rash and daring attack upon Quebec on the night of the 31st December, 1.^75. ke had hoped to surprise the battery that guarded the narrow pass, under cover of the night and of a lieavy snow storm. His advance was seen, however, by the Sergeant in-cliarge .of the battery, who reserved his .fire until the brave American and his little band were close to ihe^muzzles of the guns. At the critical moment tlie word df command was given, and the caimon and musketry IWlciied out an unexpected fire. Montgomery was one of the (irst to fall, and all who failed to beat a precipitate retreat fell with him, literally mowed down by the irresistible g^ipe thai swept the nitrrow gorge. His frozen body was found next morning in the snow, andJat^ we shall visit the scene of the house, lately demolished, in which it was laid out, ahd4fir^e of the grave in which for forty-three years it lay buried. '^ e^urrt of/gjotre 2)ame be^-aSictoirel, LMOST directly below the north end of the Terrace where the cliff recedes further from^the river, and ihe streets and houses grow thicker together, is the little church of Notre Dame des Victoires. The building was until lately as plain within as it is without. In commemoration of the defeat of the English invaders under Sir William Phipps in 169 , the' fete of Notre Dame de la Victoire was established, to b# annually celebrated in this church on the 7th of October ; and after the shipwreck of the second English Ijeet of invasion in 1711, which the French colonists regardejd as little if anything les*<1ian a miraculous interposition in their favor, the church received the name of Notre Dame des Victoires. During Wolfe's-ifege -of Quebec in 1759, its roof and upper portion were destroyed by the fire of the -Levis battened, -Itj-was^u'bse-' quently rebuilt upon the old walls, and during the year 1888 it^ interit^r' was'neatly frescoed. •• (£f)ami>lain'^ DIcf goit ,HKRE are any numl-er of other historic recollections clustering around and below the Terrace.. The large building immediately below old Durham Ten:ace, and a little to the south of the Church of Notre Dame -des Victoiraw-is the Champlain Nfarkc't Hall. • On market days there may be seen in the neighboring square -the picturesque spectacle of a number of An6i/an( women-the wives of French- Canjidian farmers, silting selling the produce of their gartlertji and daireis, which is pil*d i ^i^M m 16 , in the boxes and bags by which they are surrounded. The several small steamers lying five and six'abieast in two or thiee tiers at the niari • The next land that was cleared in Quebec after tint of which Champlain had made •a garden around his habitation was in rear of where we are just now standing looking down at the Lower Town. Let us turn around and walk a few feet toward the site. It is now covered by ■ * the little ring of green and trees, and gently-playing fountain and. by the English CathedraL On a portion of the land so cleared, Champlain erected the Its cellar still remains under the ^stined to be so f.unous in Canadian history, wooden platform of the present Durham Terrace. We have just walked over it. lidiind the Chateau was the area of the fort, now the Place d'Armes or Ring. Let us pause a little here, for we stand upon the site of thg old fortress of Quebec, which was for over two centuries the seat of the Canadian Government, and during the various periods of its existence the scene of some of the most stirring events in the History of New France, Often, in its earlier days, were its terror-stricken, inmates appalled at the daring adventuies ot theTerocious Iroquois, who having passed or overthrown all the French outposts more than once threatened the fort itself, and massacred friendly Indians within sight of its walls. At a later era, when the colony had acquired some military strength, the Castle of St. Louis was remarkable as having been the site, whence the French Governor exercised an immense sovereignty, extending from the mouth of the Mississippi river to the great Canadian lakes, and thence along their shores and those of the St " Lawrtnte to 1 lie Gulf of the same name. > .a.ai.>i^^:T^- - — iiiiiiiiiirii i T'--^rmr:'^ "--^^^ 1 '.-''KBjr'j- -,*t^, T-if'K^/j^ ~ -mEWOrFEATm WfTfrrCXLM" NfON UME^uVbovcrnoTTGardcn ■ jt^it U *i' i^^a^aaa^s^MT— nf^- .J»T^P^-n f . ■ 18 - Those interested in further details of the old fort will find it fully described in the eijtertaining pages of Parkman. (i) In 1690 the large hall of the Castle witnes^^d an exciting scene. An English fleet under Sir W.lham Phipps had sailed up th6 river against Quebec. The Admiral sent a messenger ashore under a flag of truce to demand the surrender of the garrison He was conducted, blin.lfolde.i, to the'Castle, and when the bandage was removed /roai his eyes he fouud himself in the presence of the Governor, the hauty.Count de Frontenac, and h.s brdhantly uniformed officers. He presented Phipps' written sutrimons to surrender -md demanded an answer withi^ an hour. Front enac did not avail himself of the proffered delay. He promptly told the messenger to return to his master and inform him that he recognized no King of England but J^imes.'and that William of Orange was a usurper. Then being asked if he would give his answer in writing, « No " replied brontenac, "I will answer your General only by the mouth of my cannon." And he kept ms word. Phipps made an inelTectual attempt to bombard the city, but the guns from the fort poured shot into his vessels with a deadly aim, carried away his ensign, disabled .ome of his ships, and compelled him to beat so precipitate a retreat that his own vessel out Its cable and left its anchor behind it. (2) \f After the British victory of 1759, and the consequent cession of CanL by the trench m 1760, the English Governors resided in "the Chateau St. Lou is, ^ subse- quently to 1 791 ,t was occupied also by the Executive Council. In i«o8, the Castle was considerably enlarged and repaired, and then measured 200 feet long by 40 broa^ t7lT?^ "' '" " '^^'' '"' ^°^' ^"'"'"™ '^^^^^'^ '^^ ™'"« "> ^^ --oved, and built the first Terrace which was called after him. The so-called Chateau, which until the month of March, 189., stood on the edge of the Terrace to our Ifeft as we leave the promenade, was erected in .784, by SMr Frederick Haldimand, Governor- General, as a w.ng of the old castle. It was occupied by the Laval Normal School up to the time of its demolition, to make way for the new palace hotel of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Let us walk around the northerly end of this building and the s.de which faces ^^ ' I7an Id i T- ""^ ^" ''' ''' "^" ^'^-S^-'^*^ ^'^ eate fac.ng St. Louis st.et n t f."' ?"' ' ''''^"' '"°" '"' ^^^ ^^^^ '^47. This.-stone was discovered in 1784 by the workmen engaged in levelling, the yard in which Haldimand's Chateau was n course of erection. Mr. J. Edmond Roy, who has admirably siimmed 'up much that has been written on the subject, is of the .opinion that in olden times the^riginal Order Mom" VI ^r '?"'"' '° "'^''^' "" ^"'°'>' '" Q-^-' -^ thaf Governor Montmagny, himself a Kmght of Malta, laid the foundations of a house for the use of ruich pnory in 1647, and had this stone prepared to insert in the w.alls (.) The late Mr. WilHs Russell of the St. Lou.s Hotel, was the original promoter of the scheme or erecting on the site of the old Chateau, a modern palace hotel. The site ■ s certainly one of the grandest that possibly co,.Ul be imagined for a hostlerV intended for the accommodation of tourists. ' (0 Old «' Regime " inCam-jda, Page 419. (2). An interesting account of Fronten.ic's unsuccessful Sfege o7 guebec, in 1690, is to h( rage 264. y ' (j'. VO -r//v .Z." yf,/u en A n '/•//«..■, l.y J. K parley (ound i vWth the messenger. from Phipps, and the \ l^arkmans "trontenac and .^lew Krance " Koy, 1 888. • 19 . ■ In the early' part of the century there was a Riding School rear the present build- ing, which was subsequently transformed into a theatre. It was destroyed by fire ;n Jiine, 1846, during a panoramic performance, and frOm forty-five to fifty people perished in the flames. " . Stfee gngtik^at^cbrat. N the site no\y occupied by the English Cathedral, adjoining^e Place d'Arnfes or Ring, which alone. separates-it from >Dafferin Terrace and the site of the old Chateau, formerly stood the ancient cliurcB and convent of the Recollets Fathers, which was destroyed b^ fire '■in 1796. Before th* erection of a Protestanf Church in <>ebec, Protestant services were permitted aJ: timfes by the Recollets "Fathers, in their olS :hurch. ^ , . , Jhe British Government took possession of the grounds after the suppression of the . Recollets Order, and at ^he iug^estion of Bishop Mountaio, the first AnglicM^ -Bishop of Quebec, whose Seeextended to the frozen ocean on the north aad to th^acific on the west, it erected the present CathedraL which was consecrated in 1804. It is a plain though substantial structure in the Roman style of arqiitecture, measuring 135 by 73 feet. It should be visited by tourists, not for its architectural beauty, but for the splendor of its mural monifments, dnancel window and ela borate solid silver comipunion service. This latter, which is of exquisite workmanship, and cost ;^2,ooo sterling, attracted numbers of visitors while on exhibition in London, where it was made by Rundell &• Bridge. J Together with the altar cloth and hangings of the desk and pulpit, which are of crinason/ velvet and cloth of gold, and the books for diving service, this communion plfate was a present from King George Hi. There is in the towtff'T^ry \weet peal of eight bells of which tht; tenor bell is abO\jt 16 cwt. The church has an^exc?flent brgan and a dean and chapter, but neither surpliced choir nor ordinary cathedral choral services. The dean, Rev. Dr. Norman, is aUo Rector of Quebec, and. resides in the Rectory situated in the Cathedral grounds. In the chancel is a large marble monument in memory of the^ Right Rev. Jacob lilountain, the first Bishopjof Quebec, surmounted by.tlj» bust of the first occupant of -the See, 'who procured the er?ction> of the J3uilding. 'Ine chancel window is ■* ^1, memorial of the thijd Bishop of the diocesie, the late Dr. Jehoshaphat Mountain. In both design and. coloring it is considered one of the richest pieces of stained glass on 'he continent. The central portion represents the Ascension ; the Baptism and Trans- figuration being represented iti the side windows. On the'9ther side of the chancel from Bishop Jacob M^ountain's monument is that to his successor. Bishop Stewart. Another marble slab commemorates the death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennqjc, while Governor-General of^Canada, which was.caused by hychophobia, arising from the- bite of ^ pet fox^ in 1819, ^""^ wh^e body reposes in a vault beneath the church building. Other mural monuments are in memory of Hon. Carleton Thomas Monckton, fifth, so|i '' of the fourth Visccymt Galway, and great nephew of the Hon. Brigadier General Monckton, who succeeded to the command of ,the British Army upon tha death of General •Wolfe; of the late Lieut-General Peter Hunter, Lieut-Governor of Uppef Canada and Comifrander-in-Chief of the forces; of Lieut. Baynes of the Royal Artillery, who lost ^ yl ] f ill 20 h.sl,fe .n thegu., fr.e of .866. V.,..h rle.lroyed a large pon.on of St. RqcIvs suburbs. , ai,d of Major Sho.,, whose body ...s blown ,n.o fragments by a premature explosion of gUnpo«rcler wh.le »>. was gallantly %htin» a tonflngration in the suburbs of St Sauveur Overhan^Mnu the cU,.^' are the renl'nants of -wo old aiid tattered flags. These ire the old colors ul »hc 69th British Regiment of foot, deposited here in-1870, by Lieut -Col nagot on the ..^, „f new colors being presented th. -..iment on. the Esplanade cU u W '"" '■''"■■• '""" ^""•''^^ ''''''■'''^' were deposited in the Cathedral wih elaborate -cere-aonial attended by a striking mibtary pageant This is believed to be the only .Cathedral on the continent containing' British colors The Governor-General s pew "is seen surrounded by curtains, in , the north gallery, and here -have worshtppedat various times a number of members of the Roynl Fnnuly of England The pulpit has-been occupied by^numbers of leading di.v,nes, including the late Dean • R t R \V ;• T ^"V'" '"""' '''°''"^- °'"'^ ^""^-^ ^P'-°P^' Church' R.ght Rev. W.lham Stevens Perry, D.D., Bishop of Iowa, preached here several time '• n the summer o .890, a good portion of which they spent in Quebec. In addition to the magmhcent Imdeir trees ornamenting the Cathedral enclosure, there was a venerable elm upon the grounds prior to September, ,845, in which monthit wa. blown down and baneath whose umbr..geoas branches legend has it that^ Jacques Cartier assembled his' followers upon ^heir first ar-ival in Canada. • . • Sr^e (£ourt ^oiu^e anl> Union i^nilbini^. iTHER noticeable buildings upon the Place' d'Armesaie new. Court House I inimediately south of the Cathedral, one of the hanSmest and,mo.t substan-' tial of Quebec's modern edifices, and the old Unipn Building i„ the north-east r corner of the square, now owned and occupied by Mr. D. Morgan, tailor and outfitter but m 1808, and for some time afterwards, the r.;./.cr.«. of the famous club of Baron=' ..lh.s Place d Amies Square, which in the time of the French was called the Grande- Place was the .scene of frequent military parades and a fashionable promenade. In i6co the Huron Indians, who had been driven from Lake Simcoe, ehcaAiped here, J(Hv#o^st Office anb (£^icn b'Dr- . ^.AKI^T. leave for a while of the Place d'Armes and .its wealth of histori asso<^afons and surroundings, let us turn the corner.c^e Union Buildin. %""'■''> J"- l> l^nef space of a short 'block of buildings, unul we com uade .sf et, s/^alle^fafter Louis d. Buade. Count of Erontenac. 'I'rom eac q Lro? as thoseo ar, acts of he.^^m.and d.eds of blood, relics of the past and rare historic treasures, the foot-p.tnt*,c#^iors, and the former surroundings of the early esu >d'Armfs; in front is the palace of the ihd LaValUniversity. On our left are the missionary martyrs, stand- left behind us Dufferin 'iWr Cardinal, and further on t ^SB!m&ii,Jlm,ir -^ai^i^t'-Mil. ^aMMttiB ^^M^iM ■^i* 4^ -rv-. 21 *. site of the old JesuU Barracks, the Basilica of Qutbec^nd some of'the oldest residences in Canada. On the right, *nd clbse to us, is the Ffist Office Building, in the northern i-aciide of which is the figure of a rather tame-looking stone ^og, gnawing a bone. An^ thereby hangs a tale ; not to the dog alone, but to its entire surroundings. This is how It .happened : And it came to pass under the French regime, that the proprietor of tie old house that formerly stood on the site of. the Post Office was named Nicholas Jacquin Philibert. Now Philibert had some disagreement, S6me say, with Pierre Legardeur., Sieur de Repen^iyf an officer who had been quartered in his house, according to other «''"'ters,.^Wii^ t^je Intendant or Lord- Lieutenant himself. To revenge him- self he pktte(|0tq(S r the front of his house, with the accpmpanying lines : Je suis un cfiien qui ronge I'os, En le rongeant je prends mon Wpos, ' ' ■ Un temps viendia qui n'est pas venu, ik- " " - Que je mordray qui m 'aura mordu, ' • -■ ,"■/•, Which may be translated as follows : I am a dog gn'a\^i.ng abone,. - * " ' While I gnaw I take my repose, ' ' . '. . : ' '• The time will come, though not yet. When I will bite him who now bites nie ~^ \yilder versions state that Philibert was assassinated by Le-ardeur, and^'thai' Ph.l.bert's brother or %on pursued the, assassin to Europe, and later to Pindicherpy - East Ind.es,' and slew him. Le Moine has an interesting chapter oa Le ChUn d Or (i) • which took its name from the facts that the sculptured figure of the dog seems always to ],ave been, as now, in gilt. , * F.Kirby of Niagara' has woven awund the warp of this tragic.story, a marvellous romance of the time of Bigot,- and intro:U,ced into it many of the leading" characters that"^ figured in .Quebec, nearly a century and a half ago. (2) H. R. H. Princess Louise, wlien in Canada, assurt^d Mr. Kirby of tlie pleasure .with which Queen Victoria had read his interesting historical ndvel. Before and for a long ' time after Ihe siege of 1759, when Quebec fell into the hands of ^le British, the old |u.ld.ng wa^sed as MiolTee house, while from 1775 t^TiSoo, it was known as Free- l||>is' Hall,, and the lodges in Quebec held th»tr, meetings there. The propriettir of the house in 1782 was Miles Prentice, himself a Freemason and formerly a> sergeant itf the 78th Regmient under Wolfe, tie had either a daughter or a niece of remarkable beauty and in the bloom of youth. . c^ The immortal Nelson, then the youthful comnvander of the " Albeima^-le," a Irigate of 26 guns, conveyed some merchantsmen to Qti^bec in- 1782, and was one.of the habitues of Prentice's Hotel. it.) ^w ;• Tho lii>.to.y of ^u uid Hoiuw in i.eMuii.«'s jMaple J.eavK-, (Quebec, )S73, pane, ti vi.) The "Gol(leii|D()j^," by K.-Kiibv. ■ ' . . r t. . \ t y^*^ "VU 1 ■». X * » . ^^-— - ^^^^m •^ .— ^-;^ ^ ^^^^ sous LK CAP. (A Sireet of (Jiiebec.) 23 The uture admirer of Lady Hamilton was so smitten with the young lady that he offered her m%rrtage. His friends, however, succeeded in withdrawing him from the sway of a passion which threatened to destroy his career, and Miss Prentice became, later, the wife of a distinguished officer, Major Mathews, Governor of Chelsea Flospital, England. In;the pages of" L' Album du Touriste," (i) is a reference to a sound cow-hiding, which the Duke of Clarence, afterwards 'William IV., received in this neighborhood, at the hand of an irritated father, whose daughter the Duke was in the act of following too cldselv. But turn to the East. What a unique termination ! It ends in a staircase 1 And yet it is not so unique at all in Quebec. Three or four other streets do the same. We shall scarcely have time to descend the stairs just now into Mountain Hill, so we will satisfy ourselves with the view to be had from their Summit. .Feast the eye for a lew minutes upon the magnificent scene of river and island, and shipping and opposite shore that forms the picture here spread oiit before us .! And yet it is one of a hundred equally beautiful views to be had from various points of the heights of Quebec. That vacant spiace on the opposite side of the street surrounded by iron railings is ' XU Site of tbe Clb parliament ^onU- HE building which was here destroyed by fire in April, 1S83, served as the studio of the artists of Confederation. Within its walls was HWi^lded ^he form ' of that constitution which united in one Dominion the scj&tered North Ameri- can colonies comprised befween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, while sefcuring to the people of each their )0\yiiPrevincial autonomy and self government in local affairs. This Parliament HpUse Wtte constructed in ^^59 and 1,860, at a cost of over ]|56o,ooo, to replace the former ope, also destroyed by fire. On a portion of this site was the first ceri^etery used by the eaily French settlers, and in a corner of this cemetery is supposed to have lieen the tomb of Samuel de Chaniplain,' founder of Quebec. Such, atiall events, i^ the very reasonable conclusion to which Dr. Harper has arrived, after a m:inute investigation of the theories and writings on the subject o) Abb^s Laverdi^re and Casgrain, of Messrs. Cauchon, Drapeau and Dionne. The citizens of Quebec, mider the jiresidcncy of Judge Chauveau, are about to erect " monument ii Chomplain at a cost of $30,000, upon the site of the old Chateau St I^iouis, Ixjtwe^n Dutferin Teri'ace and Place d'Armes. 2:bc .CiarMnarc^ i>alacc. j^ may now retrace our steps to the Crossjoads, where we stood a few minutes ago, and continuing along Fort street, by which we left the Plact d'Armes at th? Union Building, and which was so called because it led from the Lower Town Landing to tlie I'ort, we reach in about a hundred feet th< entrance gates of the palace of the first Canadian Cardinal, — His Eminence Cardinal ip (1) 'r.'.VIlnim (III TonrlHlo," !»)■ .1 M. I.oMo'110, Q'lfbcr, tM75. im^P 4n. ' > I....J.W. ' 4. j^uuitdt-kiitmii 24 . • Taschereau a'large and handsome stie building. Quebecerrwill not soon forget the . elabo.^te fetes and ceremonial which n..,ked in .886 the conferring of the baretta upon His Eminence. I * "arena The throne room of the palace is al very handsome apartnient, all its furniture and hangings being of Cardinal red. P.otUtants as welJ, as Roman Catholics pay the' respects to Cardinal Taschereau when h holds his receptions here, for in additL to th personal popularity of the Canadian Prince of the Church, his elevation to the carlal ate IS cons,dered by all Quebecers as ai signal honor conferred by Rome upon clnad Continuing on our way past the palace gp.es, we quickly arrive at ■ X^t ©ranb 33aftfnv •*• MERE on the very edge of the cliff, overlooking the river, are mounted a long row o heavy guns. They are now of obsolete pattern. l,owever, and would be of lute service inaction. The road.is narrow and winding, and from it' may be had a splendid view of the river and surrounding countrj.. At intervals Too n rfn . provided with seats have been erected. The gfounds o^ I.val U vl [y J s^d St e^veTttr ' ''f "°" ^""- '''' '^""•'^' ^"' "'^ -"^^- ^nterL ^iZd de hght the eye, by sitting and resting a while upon one of the Grand Battery Benches if he has t^e necessary time at his disposal, l^fore returning to the Chateau St. Louis fol'ucheon He will be glad of the rest too, if he has taken us, for a guide all morning Z i have spent a rather busy half day in seeing and examining'what v Zve plte^ouTt goo< meal at the St. Louis, and the tourist is wise no{ to take it before he re^hes Ih. . ote,. N.,.,„,,„,i„, ,,;,^ „^^^ .^ ^ ^^^^„ .„^ .^ ^^^ ^.^^ here-cal i o/:: f y!: vin^tha no matter how late you t.ake your breakfast will secure you a goo UoneZ Hor lunch by one o'clock. If y .. have followed the directions herein so frLTai you m.ay npt have walked a mile in all, yet you have made good use o yoTr im ' and have the satisfaction of knowing that you have gained a wealth ohiT' I legend 1, , .,, ,,,,,.,.,, ,^^^,,^ ^,^ ^,^^ ^^^j^ ci::;' ^^ t: jt The afternoon of the first day in Quebec cannot be better spent anvwher,h A' . Ibe l\\mca- ^HE construction of the ol.l Cathedral of Quebec was commenced i„ .64^ and colony. As early, however, as 1645, the French tJovernr..- n xa fiflytover skin. 10 111, building „rihe church ' i»ei«c nnn.lrcl .„<1 .h. p.™hi.i chu,ch or guc^c. ,. ,„, „,„ .„ ,s„ .h;;",,:::;:,:;;,;:™":'^: 25 to the dignity of a Basilica. It'has suffered much from fires occasioned by the storming of the city diiring the^ several sieges' through which it has passed, but the foundations and parts of the walls are still the same, having now existed for nearly two and a half centuries. In the yard at the back of the presbytery adjoining the chancel, and imme- diately in rear of the Basilica, are still to be found the relics of the foundation walls of the chapel, built by Champlain in 1633, in commemoration of the recovery of the country the year before from the English, into whose hands it had fallen in 1629. This chapel waift called by Champlain the " Chapelle de la Recouvranccj" and was for the time being the parish church of Quebec. It was destroyed by fire in 1640. .The founder ^of Quebec had erected a still earlier chapel in the Lower Town, in 1615, near where is now the foot of the Dufferin Terrace elevator, but it was destroyed together with Cham- plain's other buildings in the Lower Town, in the siege of 1629. The Liasilica is 2i6 feet in length by 108 in breadth^ and is capable of accom- modating 4,000 worshippers. It cannot boast of much external symmetry, and is distinguished rather for solidity and neatness than for splendor or regularity of archi- tecture. Within, it is very lofty, with massive arches of stone dividing the naves from the^isles. There is, however, much more than its antique and internal beauty to attract- tluMUintion of touiists. It con'.ains .some of the most remarkable and valuable objects J. of al^bn the continent. Upon its walls hangs a rich collection of paintings, most of •j^mpby noted European masters, and invaluable as works of art. These were liiostlx, secured by Canadian priests in France, after the Reign of Terror in 1 793, in which the oidinances of religion were proliibited and the property of churches and monasteries, in Paris, con fij-cated and scattered. One, however, has a most remarkable history of its own. This is the magnificent canvas that hangs over the high altar and has for its subject the Immaeulale Conception. It is supijtjsed to be after Lebrun, if not the actual handwoik of tile great Master. More than a hundred years ago it came into the possession of a family named Lemaistie, residing on the island of Cuern!-ey ; in what manner is now unknown, though it is supjiosed to have been captured from some French vessel, during a naval skirmis^. At all events, it was considered of no great value, for it remained for a jieriod rolled up in an attic room, which was used as a receptacle (or old furniture, costumes of former days and G^ie;; curiosities. Captain I^maislre, the son of the proprietor, was, in 1770, in Quebec. Here he was I)e|juty Adjtit;uu-Ceneral of the forces and^ 'secretary of the Lieutenant-(Jovernor. When Lieutenant- Governor Cremahe was recalled to England, and succeeded by Lieutenant-Covernor llnmilton, Lemaistre remamed in Canada with the new tiovernor. (lis heart had crossed the sea, however, in the ship that took his old master home, having followed the pretty nic^ce of Mr.'tJremalie, Margaret Stuart, with whom he was desperately in love. Margaret wds educated at the tJrsuline Convent and while there abjured ProtestantLsm, and was baptized in the convent chapel. Young Lemaistie had an intimate friend in a young ecclesiastic, then secretary to the Roman C'latholic Hhhop, Mgr. Briand, ami to him he confided his secret. Mr. IMessis had heard the story of Margaret Stuart and the convent, and wlien the gallant young captain explained why he was »o aqxious to obtain leave of absence to visit England, his friend repl ed : " But Captain lemaistre,'! cannot wish you success in this matter unless you im ^^ritefi^aB^a ■^.^^i^^..;.,.>^M..fi^^-.T^^X3>g.?^ ■.>■-' ^ 26 '"' • and upon eaclrEn^'T '""^•'' '"' ^^""'■^'" "^'''^'"^^' ^^^^ ^^ -'^-"<=e, ■ came uuoT.^! , ' " '•^"^^'^'^'"8 'he contents of the attic chamber, the bride i>9^ when r T ^ " ' " ''' ''^^«"' ^° '''- ^"""^'' '^'^^^P 'l^^ ^-nvas. It was - 1 ttm Tht?", •" "'"""' '° ^^'"'^^' ^"' '^'^ ^"^'"^^ "- ^-'l^d up and taken ■ J he OK- a 's:t'str^; "-.the Governor of Gasp., but the offi.e was'a sinecure, secretary of m'-, \T "'''"' '" ''" "'y- ^" '^^ n>eantime, the young of ttpris^ool ";','" ^"'"'' "'^"^'^^' ""'' ^-" -!-d to the dignity ^MontunTr > '" '•" '^""^ ^'^ '"9^ '^'''^' ^^^- ^Pl--''^d c.r^ of Quebec! a iTe at e?" --.-turally cne of the first callers upon Captain and Mrs. Lemaist V 1 1 p i ?;::'r^..''^r'': °^ ''''"^'' -^^^ ^- --prance of the picture. '.I llTJj, n t /' ;r ""^ r'-'^^V- ^'^"^ -'^^ ^'■- -^-^^f- -other.- It was pass with him V " '^'■' '"'" ^' ""'^^ Captain and Mrs.'Lemaistre to shTw: iJrt, ^rtre":*^^ ^^ ^^e cathedral, and there, behind the high altar, he " God than to man.-' ' ""'' ""' '"' '''" '"^'^' ^'"""' " '' '^ '-"" '« ^ive to froJTZu^:^ S"""'^ in .he Basilica there is a Christ, but very different famous VaTl c/L \wr.h T T^ ''' '"'"'^ "^^ '^^ '""^'"^^- '^'^'^ ^^ '^^^ " and present. Vv,: r,\ - " "^ ^°'^ "" ^'^^ C^"^^" ^^ ^'"^^ paintecf in .630, .0 theTo ir, ' "; ^■""-'' "'"^'- '"'^^ ^°"-'-" - 'his church belong Imag e V n Dvc. V^ T '''"' "''■ ^'""'^^ ^"^ ™°"-teries in their madness. these ,i.^ '" "" "^""'^ '■"'" =^ f"-^^^' thotl««nd francs? Two or three of ■ ct ' 1 " :: T- 7^ ^^ ""? ''' ^^'"' ' ^"'" -^^ ^-'*°"' ^^'-'^ th^ ^-hole coll ion o kiJ ;:'?:," " ?"."'^' '"-'"^ '" ^'^^ ^^'^^'"'^^' -^'^ -'^ may spend h9urs •a^rive'at n rjc on """"'^"f ^'"^^^^ genius of then- authors. Indeed, should one spent thntm.kn;.h'"' 7'r\' '"" '^"''^ "°' '"^ '^'"''^ P^^^-tly and profitabiv a 1I.I Unfver;t f T" "' "''"" «^"""^' •^" ^''^- 'he elaborate collection r I av 1 f '-, '.'T"' '"■ •" ""• " ^^-■''' '- hctt« tn reserve a fine bright day seenlClicat on T '" '"'■^''"' '" "^"""- ^'"^ ^^^^^ ^^tments may be by he ; .^'ro "xiV '77- ?''' ^""'^'" ■^^^^"'•^' ^^'^ ''^^-"'-^ '« "-hop Laval y me f,,eat Lou.s XIV , includmg o^e'set .n beautiQil and very valuable gold brocade H.s Lm.nence Card.nal Tasch.renu frequenriy c.ffic.atS in the nLilica in full c^, canonicals- ibc Scmiiian) ISfciml, >. 1 1.) IHC a (t« jc.ni. at., witl, a uumlnr .,( valuable n.t treasures- thai ,! yi ■J:.., ^)ipf|fr3?>''**?"f'«i f ^■^'• '■f ^-W^i" '^ 27 BREAKNECK ST£rS lG.\' ^ Mercier .nssedM nrT.l u ' '^'"°'''"''- ^" '^^^' P''*'^'^ Minister .he iX t ."a.Kl other o7t1' '""'"'•'' '■'^'"""' "^ ™"^'^^"^'''^ "^^ J^^"''« f^ 1% »;t'"^'^ s^'T's^i^^Tc^^!"?^ 29 Sin 3nbian aSar 3)a'nce, INDIAN ahrms were frequent at Quebec between 1650 and 1660, and lively sce.ne^ more than once ^occurred as the Iroquois jnvaders sought to surprise the Fort, and . drove into its shelter the Huron refugee? that were encamped between it and the Jesuits' College. De Gasp6 tells of an exciting scene he witnessed on the old market place on a Sunday afternoon towards the end of the last century. A number of Indians who were then encamped near Indian Cove, on the Us'is side of the river, landed in town, and ran so excitedly through the streets as to cause some inquietude to the com, onandant of ihe garrison, who immediately doubled the guards at the gates of the cily and of the barracks. They wore but shirts and trousers, afsl hanging fromothe waists of many of them were human scalps, Showing that they had participated in the recent war between the English and American.^. They were armed with tomahawks, ^heir bodie were tattooed, their faces were painted in black and red, in which colors thev appeared well determined to paint the whole town too. After dancing in small groups before the residences of the principal official personages, they finally asseml,led to the number of four or five hundred warriors, no women having accompanied them, and commenced their hideous, war dance in front of the Basilica, where ihe fountain is.now situated, just as Hie faithful were emerging from the church after vespers. First, there was the repre- sentation of a council of wgr, with harangues from their chief, then they marched around in single fiyafter him, imitating with their tomahawks the motion of paddles propelling a canoe. The refrain of their song was, " Sahoutes ! Sahoutes ! Sahoutes ! oniakerin ouatchi-chicono-ouatcKe ! " then at a signal of thtir chief, there was; absolute silence, until a general sniffing in the air indicated that they felt the approach of the enemy! All at once the chi^f gave a frightful yell, which the others repeated in chorus, and darling amongst the spectators, brandishing awhile his deadly weapon, he seized hold of a young m-an,^whom he slung over his shoulder, and ran back into the circle of his warriors. Then placing his supposed victim down with his face to the ground,- the Indian knelt over him, a«id made as though he was removing his .scalp, subsequently appearing to slit open his body, and with his hand as a ladle to drink the Wood of his enemy. Some of ihe more distant spectators feared a tragedy inste.id of a burlesque, • and shouted, "save yourself, my little Peter, they' will skin you like an eel." With a dexterous movement and a shout o'f triumph, the Indian had quickly turned himself about, and drawn from his side a human scalp which he held aloft as a proof of victory, and" which nad been painfd » bright vermillion to give it a more ghastly and natural appear- ance. Little Peter logt no tiine.^on finding himself ielea.sed,' in dasliing out of harm's way, and making h^gWcape through the crowd of spectators (1); ' ■N, (I) " I.es Ancieiis (.'nnadieiis," par Philippe Aiihert de ("..nspe, (Jiielje^:, 1877. Page 13a. "'^ r ■ ' ■.2T!5»f ;■? 30 XU Sl^gelu^. m' ^HOSE who have seen Millet's celebrated painting may like to know of another " Angeltts" painted by DeGasp6 (i), but the scene of which is placed upon this old Market Place, instead of in the green fields of old France. The subject dates back nearly a hundred years. Listen to the word painting of our author : It is noon ; the Jngelm sounds, from the belfry of the cathedral ; all the bells of the town announce the salutation of the Angel to the Mother of Christ, the beloved patroness of the Canadians. The habitants, whose vehicles surround the stalls, uncover their heads and devoutly recite the Angelas. Everybody follows the same worship : iK>body ridicules this pious custom. Certain Christians' of the nineteenth century seem to be ashamed of xfSractising a religious act before anybody else. It is, to say the least, proof of a weak V and contracted spirit. The disciples of Mahomet, more courageous, pray seven limes a (lay, and that in all localities and in the very presence of timid Christians. In the early part of the century, a small stream ran across the square in front of the barracks, from the direction of St. Louis street and down Fabrique street, eventually , emptying itself into the St. Charles. A few old French houses are still found facing the square amongst the modern buildings which DeGaspe quaintly described as "reaching towards heaven as though they feared another deluge." ' One of these is the well-known tobacco establishment of Mt . Grondin, which was the scene of the first Quebec restau- ',rant, kept in 1648 by one Jacques Boisdon, then having the sign " Au Baril d'Or," with - the added words, " J' en bois done." Jacqiies IJoisdon had the right by deed, signed by M.'d'Ailleboust, P^re Lallemand, and the Sieur Chavigny, Godfroy and Giffard, to serve his guests, provided it was not during mass, the sermon, catechism, or vespers. To the north of the Square are the stores of Messrs. Fisher and Blouin, saddlers, where, m 1810, resided General Brock, the hero of Queenstown Heights. Cai>al Unber^it^v w |0 cultivated visitor can aflord to leave Quebec without inspecting the famous Uriveristy of Lavnl, with its rare art treasures an?l varied historical associations. It has a main entrance on the Grand Battery, as already described, but may, too, be reached by a long passage from the Seminary, whose gates adjoin the front of the Basilica on the ^Iarket Square. At least half a day — or better, a whole day — should be devoted to this visit. The University proper is known, sometimes, as the major seminary. The minor seminary, which, as already explaified, adjoins it, is interesting to Aoiericans, as having been the scene of the »onlinenient of the American officers taken pris6ners during the siege of the city by Arnold and Montgomery iu 1775. It was foundeil in 1663, by Mgr. de Montmorency Laval, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec and of Canada, who was allied to the I-U)yal family of France, and who left the grbaterpart of his landed and other property to endow the institution. The original seminary building was destroyed by lire in 1701, and the university received its royal charter in 1852, and (i) " Les Anciens Canatliens," p.ige 10. s J ^ » • ^ . .u mmiak '^'^y^'^ifW^ i^^'K •"^ pf fi'^-ftif- fi^'me-y^^n^f-.ys^ vrii-if^a^^ '•(fT"'^>(%!f^^^- 31 >w of another placed upon The subject author : It is of the town patroness of r their heads ody ridicules I ashamed of lof of a weak even times a I front of the t, eventually id facing the s "reaching well-known lebec restau- d'Or," with - d, signed by . Giffard, to , or vespers. Hers, where, the famous issociations. (1, but may, House VVheri; M( ntqomery Was Laid Out. I ■ -4iA-V»M^-A- ivf tX-i»i ■;t-»::^-i»feterttef^ 32 ' thereupon as^d the name of Laval. The University buildings are three i« number, the P'-'nc.paHravW been erected in 1857. The main edifice is 298 feet in length, 60 in w.dfh, and 80 ^ height, and viewed from the river is, after the Citadel, the mast' prominent budding in the city. The buildings alone of {he universily-and seminary are valued at over a million dollars. The university consists of four faculties.-Theology Law, Afcdicme and Art, there being thirty-four professors and nei«ly three hundred students. Seven colleges and seminaries are affiliated with (he univeisity There are several large halls, containing the museums of Geology, Neural History. Arts and bcences. The Picture Gallery is yearly receiving large additions,%hile'the library is the largest m Canada next to that in the House of Parliament at Ottawa, and contiins 100,000 volume^, being also rich in valuable MSS. relating to the early history yf the country. Prom the promenade on the roof a. magnificent view of the valley of the St Charles and down the St. Lawrence can be had. The museum contains 1,000 instruments in the department of physics, 8,000 speci- mens m mineralogy aod geology : the botanical department a large and remarkable „ collection of Canadian woods, artificial fruit, and 10,000 plants; zoology, over one thousand stuffed birds, a large number of quadrupeds and thousands of fishes, insects etc ihen there are Egyptian mummies, Indian sculls and weapons, and a variety of other cunos coins, medal., etc. Admissi*, to the picture gallery is obtained on payment of a small fee. Thig gallery merits a protracted visit, both ancient and modern art beina well represented, and though the showing of water colors is not strong, a few very eood things may be seen. In oils, we have the work of such artists as R«sa Bonheur, Daniel Mytens, 1. Uan.el Legar^ Saivator Gastigiione, H. Vargason, Mon.icelli, »Sf*pnyer. Karl Vernet, Lucatelh, Saivator Rosa, David Teniers, Van Mullen, John ofceter Van Bloemen, Le Jeune, Vouet, Antoine Van Dyck, Pisanello Vittore, Tinto^to,> Boucher and .others. Catalogues may be had on application.. *" , ' '•^: Sioiinb about tfee $otel. HE Chateau St. Louis Ilotel, as already related, is built upon historic ground and you may stand upon the street in front of it, and see clustered around in close proximity a dozen or more localities redolent with memories of a romantic The small low building immediately opposite the ladies' entrance, now occupied as a shaving saloon, is rep6rted to have«Reen one time.the headquarters of General Mont- calm. Just east of the St. Louis, as we have already seen, is Kent House, the town residence, of H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, when commander of the British troops in Canada. Next to it is the high peaked antique Commissariat building, fitted out with so Id iron shutters by the Imperial Government in the early partof the century, for the safe keeping, before. the era of banks and police in Quebec, of the specie paid out to the troops and aiiny contractors. • ■ . r k i" mc r ^ ^HUfftl IM>t tf' H A » -rtW 4 "WVa-V" « liiiSi ^^^^ ^'- "-^^~ ■w- 33 Xi)t Wla^onk ^att m' I HE' building Immediately oppoyte the main entrance of the hotel, the ground floor of which is*a general American and Canadian railway and , steamship office, is the Masonic Hail. It contains in its lod^e room fpme durious old chairs, covered with masonic devices, presented by the Qireen's unctie, th^ Duke of Sussex, in 1807, to Sussex lodge; for both the Royal Duke and his brother, the Duke of Kent, were /.ealous Freemasoas. ; ^ ZU ?lcabem^ of ajJu^ic ig tne IMMEDfATELY adjoining tRe Chateau St. Louis onV the westerly side is the Academy of Music. It is the popular place of amuseiAent here, .and since it has • always J^d the reputation of being occupied by first class (companies, performers are usually grated with large audiences. On those nights during the tourist season upon which there is no perfbrmance in the Acadejpy of Music there ^vgenerally music in the hotel for its guests. Two doors past the Academy we coa\e to a relic of " Ve olden times " in the shape of a little one-storey house with high gables, that denotes the earliest" style of French Canadian architecture. Jliis was, according to Le Moine, the house iii- which the chiv- alious Moi)fcalm breathed his last. It will be remembered by those who have carefully studied thdj events of the ipemdrable 13th of September, 1759, that Wolfe's intrepid rival rode in frfm his last battlefield on his black charger, mortally wounded, and supported by two grJnadiers, through St. Louis Gate, and on this very street told some poor women jvho were horrified at hil appearance and called out that he was killed, not to weep for Aiim as he was not seriously hurt. It is recorded that he expired at an early hour the next morning, and it is Ijelieved that his death must have occurred in Dr. Arnoux's, into which he was carried, and which was situated in this old building, now the office of P. Campbell's livery stable. •' In the early part of this century, Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, fre- quently visited this old building, to inspect the work of Mr. F. Baillarg6, a member of thft Royal Academy of Paintings and Sculptures of France, and grand uncle of Chevalier B.aMarg6, City Engineer of Qufbec. Fran9ois Baillarg^ was a sculptor, and made several of the statues in the BasiRca." (1) Si ^ Immediately opposite is the short street leading to the Ursuline Convent, known as Parloir street, on the north-west corner of which lived the Abb6 Vignal, previous to his joining the Sulpicians of Montreal. In October, 1661, he was captured by the Iroquois at La Prairie de la Madeleine, near Montreal, roasted alive, and partly eaten by these iends incarnate. «3) (li^Biography of Chas. Baillargi, by Edgar La Selve, published by "La Revue Exotiquelllustrte,' of Paris.— Vage 8. c ,jf- -* "^ .^ikl^&SiMil: r 34 ■•^ ^' j;|e Ur^uline Soni^ent ^HfS convent, Z^ded in 1639 by Madame de la Pel trie, is one of the most ancient in Canada. Built at first in 1641, it was destroyed by fire in 1650 : rebuilt, it met with a similar fate ifi 1686. The foundations of that of 1641, and the walls of that of 1650 being used, a tljird structure was erected after the fire, and is still to be seen in rear of the modern King, facing Garden and Parloir streets. The convent building, a pile of massive edifices of stdne two and three storeys high, are erected on ground. covering an area of seven acres, surrounded by St. Loi^s, St. Ursule, St. Anne and Garden streets. The entraiice faces the end of Parloir street. The chapel, which i^ 95 feet long and 45 broad, is quite plain outside, but the interior is pleasing though simple. On the right of the ■principal altar is seen a large grating which separates the church from the choir, in which the nuns, who are cloistered/ attend divine service. No man, not even the Chaplain/ is allowed to enter the cloister, save the governor of the country and members of th^ Royal family. The sisterhood of the convent numbers nearly a hundred, and its educational system is justly ien6wned. The daughters of leading Canadian and American families are amongst the 250 or so of pupil-boarders in the institution, and there are also a large number of day pupils Praser's Highlanders were stationed in this convent during the winter of 1759, following .Ihe capture of Quebec, and the table on which the first sentence of death was signed by the British authorities against a woman, Madame Dodier, for poisoning her husband is still to be seen in the rfear part of the convent. ' But to tburists, the most attractive feature of the in.stitution is the chapel which contains the mortal remains of Montcalm, and what are claimed to be the following relics :-the body of St. Clements from the Catacombs of Rome, brought to the Ursu hnes in 1687 ; the skull of one of the companions of St. LTrsula, 1675 ; the skull of St Justus 1662; a piece of the Holy Cross, 1667 ; a portion of the Crown of Thorns', brought from Paris in 1830. General Montcalm was buried here on the day follo^ving the fatal yet glorious fieht of the 13th of September, 1759, on the Plains of Abraham. His appropriate tomb vvas an excavation in the rock formed by the explosion of a shell. Le Moine relates that in I833, 't having been found necessary to repair the wall, an aged nun, Sister Dub6 who had, as a child, attended the funeral, pointed out thre grave of Montcalm. The skeleton was found intact, and the skull placed in custody of the Chaplain (i). A monument to the memory of the great General, erected September 14th, 1859, with an epitaoh prepared in 1763, by the French Academy, deserves attention. Another was erected to «,e t?aTskLn^.^°'''^ ''^'""' '" '^^'' ^""'"^ '" inscription of which the following is Honor / TO MONTCALM 1 Fate in depriving Him / OF Victory Rewarded Him by ^^ A Glorious Death I ^^ (0 ' Quebec Past and Present," by J. M. Le Moine, F. R S. C, page.'sys. fsw'n** * Old St. John's Gate (Inside) in 1864. St, John's Gatb, 1899. TJo»iA(5^g ♦" f'-Jt'- s • ' « 36 .'j<^ ' Of the works ofart to be found in this chapel, the following description is from the accomplished pen of Dr. George Stuart, F.R.G.S., who is moreover the author of the , ' paper on Quebec in the Encyclopoedia Britannica.- . ' ' ' " It lias no marbles of special account, but no city in the Dominion can boast of so mapy geiRs.'io oils, while in fine carvings on ivory it may be questioned whether in, " .„ ■'5 ' Rome itself 'orli Florence two such glorious Crucifixes as may be found in the little t#' U^-suline chapfsl*9jpinrbe seen.' These Christs 'are wonderful pieces of work. They are probably five-hundred years old, and the artist who has carvdld them is unknown, but 4iis splendid wcrk stands out, and attests his genius. . Some one in the Ursuline Convent . , will show the^e masterpieces with true French Canadian politeness, and he will be .careful to draw your" attention to the lifelike character of the Christ's head, the magni- ficent correctmss of the anatomy and the remarkable study of the veins which are dis- closed. One,n5v"er tire.? of lookii)g at these two beautiful ivories, and it is almost worth a visit to Quebec to see them alone. But in this same Ursuline Chapel'; which Howells has so eleveili' limned in his delightful story of the Saguenay and of Quebec, ai-e many paintings in oil, 'which may be seen for the asking. In the chapel there is that .,"*• masterpiece pfc the F'rencli school, "Jesus sitting down at meat in Simon's house," by Fiiilippe de.Ch irtipagne. The coloring is striking, fresh and nobly done. When Prince . ^Napoleon visittd Quebec, some years ago, and saw this picture, he offered the holders .' " any price that they might name for it. But the wise churctimen declined all offers. .This Champagne belonged to the ser whiciivvas sent to Quebec a hundred years ago fioiji Paris, anong .t kot of ])aintings rescued from ll;e French mob of the old time - Communists, aid sent here by a good priest who once resided iirQiiebec, and knew that her people would ai)precuite treasures of that .sort. Indeed,, nearly all the really good pictures which this old city boasts reached' it in the* way descrilied. .'\11 Schools of Art are represented , and as a result we have her/TTlie worljs of the noted Italian, German, Spanish. Flemisli, French and Knglish jiainters of three or four centuries ago, IhougJi, of course, only a few exhjhit them ;il their best. In 1837, J, Prnd'homme painted his Bishop of St. Noiius admitting to penance Ste. Pelagic. It is a bnl/iant canvas, and is shown here under a good light." (I) , / * ... V /♦ ■ . ®t Voim Street- ETUKNING by Parloir street from Ihe'Ursuline C(/ivent, we are again viilliin adozjsn or two , of steps of the Chateau St. Louis/llotel. If time will permit, let usi prior lo starting for a driva to the Citadel or I'arluiment House, stroll quietly as far Js St. Louis Gate, up St. Louis Street, so rich in historic associations and relics of, the FJ-ench regime. In his sketch on " St. Louis street and its storied i>ast," dedicated to tie (^uelwc Garrison Club (Christmas, 1890), Le Moine makes use of a dialogue, in v|J)iph he places in the mouth of his friend William Kirby, F.R.S.C., and author ofllhc " Golden Dog " novel, the following suggestive utterance :—" St. .Louis Gatf I (I mennfthe old gate) Why. thai Jakes one back more than two hundred years. One wbuld like lo know what King l^uis XIII replied to his far-seeini? Prime — ■" ■■ 1 ■ -^ „ - • •* _- (1) (rf.-. SleWnrt, j.., !).( .1,., K.K.S.C., in il.r (.luetK.-. M-. «,'«/ (.f'oni,!,, June igiti, iS8^ '.jJL'A^s ^>&s itiM^^M^Sf I is from the iithor of the II boast of so d whether in. in the little . They are nknown, but line Convent 1 he will be , the raagni- hich are dis- ilmost worth lich Howells Quebec, ai-e there is that s house," by kVhen Prince 1 the holders ;d all offers. (1 years ago the old time id knew that really good :hools of Art an, German, o, thougJi, of ; painted his finvas, and is again v^itliin will permit, House, stroll tciatiuns and itoried ()«st," kes use of a ndour forbade her presence there, under paip- of her severest displea- sure. Angilique r^ved nt the inhibition, but was too wise to tempt the wrath of her royal nii.'lress by disobeying her mandate. She had to content herself with railing at La Pompadour with the energy of three luries, but she never ceased to the end of hef , y ^ 38 ■i1'.| life to bonst of tlie terror which her cliarms had exercise 1 over the great favorite of the King. Rolling in wealth, and scarcely faded in bjauty, Angflique kept herself in the ])ublic eye. She.hattd retirenie:it, and boldly claimed her right to a foremost place in the. society of Quebec. Her great wealtli and tinrivalled jjower of in'uigue enabled her to^ keep that jilacc down to ilie last decade of the last century. A generation ago, very old men and wotntn H\\\ talked ol thv; goin^eous carriages and splendid liveries of the great Dame de Peaii, whom they liad seen in then childhood rolling in state along the broid avenue of St. Foyc, tiie admiration, envy and evil example- of her sex. Miny people shook their heads and whispered queer stories of her past life in the days of Intendant Bigot, but none knew the worst of her. The forgotten chamlier of Beaumanoir kept its terrible secret till long after she had disappeared from the scene of her extravagant life. The delight of Angclique was in the eyes of men, and the business of her life was to retain their admiration down to the last-years of an incoriigible old age." (i) In the early part of the present century this building was acquired by the Ordnance department of officers' i)arracks, and is still occupied by some of the local staff. JBterc a}fontvu>mcrt) ma^ Vait Dut an^ 33urieb. 't FKW doors further on, but on the opposite side of the street, is the newly erected residence of Chevalier Haillarg^, K.R.S.C, City lingineer, being street number 72. This occupies the site of a low wooden building demolished in 1889, in which the body of the Americaiv-General Richard Montgomery was laid, after his unsuccessful and fatal attack upon (^)uebec, on the night of the 31st December, 1775. At that time, this ohl hut was the cooper's shop of one (jobert. Wh.en demolished it was Some 250 years old. It was cei thinly one of the oldest buildings in the city, its rafters being formed of rough poles from whicli the b:irk had never been completely removed. A few steps further, ^n the same side o( the street, and we come to the City Hall, — a modern and un|)retentious l)uilding, and now almost univer.sally conceded to be too small for the requirements of the city. .Almost opposite to it, on the other side of the street, with projecting modern windows that have been recently added, is the Union Club House, the home of the aristociattx; chil) of (Quebec, .ind one of the most select and most complete institutions of the kind in the country. In 1812-13, it served as a place of confinement for the Anieiican ]irisoner.4%iken at Detroit. Later it was the residence of the Hon. W. .Smith, author of " Smith's Hisl,ory of Canada." The two houses adjoin- ing, now occupied respectively bv Judges Routhier ini I Hosse, formed one maniyoii thirty years ago, which was otcupied i>y l,onl Monk, then ('..iverivn C.fueral of Canada: We have now ai rived at [\v It'll l)"tf ," l>\ \\ , Kirl.v, ]<.^i-. ' 7-, ;iiiil 39 Pkbscott Gatb (Outside) in 1864. ^ THE-- Citadel (Bates. ■»y -■ ■ -'s . jt / . * '* ' : ;" '*■ ■ %- \ ' 't 40 3^6e S^|)lanabe. \ ^HIS is the name given to the expanse of verdure, fringed with graceful maples and elms, extending from St. Louis to St. John's Gate, and lying at the foot of. the green slope crowned by the city fortifications. It was formerly the parade ' ^ . ground of the Imperial froops, anrqic p.nst, none have deservedly hel.i a higher place in the estimation of the -"■ • ;^^J(^"'*'"^"' 'l"^ s*^''""^' •''">1 tl>e cuMous stranger tlfan the gates of the renowned • ' ' ' '■ " . ^-Sf^ • "''" °^ ' ''^■^°"' ''^'' ^*"' "^'^''' '"•"''^=*''" proportions and grim, medi«;- ,.'-.=^i«rcl)Uecture. no longer "exi ,. h.wever, i„ carry the mind l«ck to the days which „ . ■ '"-^««' the oldest city in North Americuwi.h Its peculiar interest and .tt.raction^. Indeed ^ ^ .V nothing now remains to show where they once raised their formidable t,.urifi,i to the foe' ^ V. ^-^ ''Pened their hospitable portals to fnends, hut three handsome substitutes of modern ._ construction and a 4^,mber of yawning apertures in the l,„e of crcumvallatFon that represents the later defences of the place erected un.ler Hriti.i rule. Jf the h ^g -St. louis. St John and Palace -which on,i„ il,y p.-e,. | the fortifications of Quebec under ^rench I^omimon. the last vestige disappeare.l m:.nv, many years a.o and h^ struct es with wh.cjuhey were replaced, together wlth^.e t;o .hbtL: and 'siml gu nied openm^s-Hope and Prescott (la.es-provide.l for the public convenience ,r n^.htary re,,u.remcnt, by the nn.ish Government since the, Conquest, have un e 1 « e same fate within the la.st few deca.les, to gratify what w^re k^l.n as mo et ide of piogress and .mprovement. though vandalism woi.1,1 ,.rhaps have been the l^te rm No deseci^ting hand, however, can rob those hallowed links, in the chain recollection, of the glorious memories which duster ar.und them so thiJkiy TirnZnd MttUiHiMB^IiiilittMi -V obliteration itself have wrought no diminution of the world's regard for their cherished associations. To each one of them an undying history attaches, and even their vacant • sites appeal with mute but surpassing eloquence to the sympathy, the interest and the veneration bf visitors, to whotn Quebec will be ever dear, not for what it is, but for what it has beijn. To the quick comprehension of Lord Dufferin it remained to note the ines- tintable value of such heirlooms in the world at large ; to his happy tact we owe the revival of even a local concern for their reUgious preservation ; and to his fertile mind and aesthetic tastes we are ipdebted for the- conception of the noble scheme of restoration, .embellishment and addition in harmony-with local requirements and modern notions of progress, which has since been realized to keep their memories intact for succeeding generations, and retain for the cradle of New France lis unique reputation as the famous walled city of -the New World. The rain'ble around the old rampaits of Quebec majics an exceedingly interesting and picturesque stroll, and the various views to be had tlierefrom will amply repay the tourist for his trpuble, especially if he be armed with a kodak, or has the time and talent necessary for sketching or painting. Commencing, therefore, with St. Louis Gate, we. here start out upon the little tour. (2t 8out^^ ®i\t^. 'l^^^-^'^;'' '\'^'''^^ll hour; thv.e-qua,cers of a century ago. These were .also, removed wUh the Gate us If n ,871 On the vacant site of the latter, in accordance with l.prd Duffenn s improved oroiect the present mngnific,nt archway with Norman spires and castellated turrets was eLSin .879, by Mr H. J. Beemer. -Lord and Lady Dufferin, before their departure from' Canada in .878, assisted at the laying of the foundation stone "f.^^'^^^^^J""' Proceeding in a northerly direction along the summit of the fortification ^^11* "^ '1 we cotne to whefe the Esplanade narrows into a simple glacis between the wall and the street, we reach v - .IIK line of foriification was only cut through here to give^a new avenue of com- ^ munigation between the Upper Town and the suburbs, some fifteen years ago It ^ consequents became necessary, in keeping with the esthetic spirit of th. whole DuiTerin scheme, to fill up in some way this unsightly gap without '"^-^--^ ^ ^^ \^ traffic. It wa^ finally decided to erect here one of the proposed memorial gates, which is altogether .therefore an addition to the number of the already eMSt.ng gates or hen intended substitutes. This structure was designed to do homage to ^'^ mem ,3. o^" Edward, Duke of Kent, the father of Her Majesty Q.een Victoria, who con nbated f.orn her own purse towards the cost of its ^onsn-act.on, and whose daughter, H. K. H. PiinCess Louise, laid its foundation stone in 1879. A very short distance to the north of Kent gate we come to ^ • . • ' . St. 3o^n^^ ©ate. • S an interesting link between the present and the past, ^'■^^^r^X^T^l^ e,,uallv prominent rank and claims an equal antiquity with St ^^^^^'P^' Its erection as one of the original g.tes of the French fortress da.es fr6m th. ^ sme year, and its h.story ,s very m,.ch the same. TJirough U --^'^ J-;^"^ °J Montcalm's defeated forces found their wiy behind the shelter of .he defcn e afte the fatal day of the Plains of Abraliam. Like St. Louis gate, too, >t was pulled down on Infonts rmnous condition ia ^79.- and subsequently rebuilt by the B-sh Oovern- „n.nt in tlie shape in wh,ch U endured until .86,, when-the first ^^ ^>' '' ^^ modern gates-it was .lemolished and replaced at an expense of som'e $40,000 to the ty by ts prLnt more ornate andconvem.nt substitute to meet the increased -q-ements f tirfic over the great artery tf the upper levels-St. John st. It may be well to remark ,U St^ oh,. 'gate' wa^ne of the objective pomts included in ^'^e A-tican p^n o assault upon Quebec on fe memorably St Uece^iber, .775! ^o'- /'"'"^^'V^om re^nment of insurgent Can.adians, aT,d M,j..r Brown with part ^^ y'^^^'fl .'^^^. Boston, having hee'n detailed to mate a false atta'ck upon the walls to the -^^ « > » to set fire to the gate itself with combustibles prepared for that purpose-a neat 1 ttle scheme in which the assa.lants -were fuiled by' the great depth of snow and other obstacles, . . , _ I • K. ^ ..* i^iX i.iA2ui,4 44 Wai^ 03ate. ALACE or the Palais gale chiinis nitenlion as tlie tliird anrl lai.t of the old French portals of the city, and derives itr title from the fact tlwt the highway' which passed through it led to line palace or residence of the famous or infamous Intendanta^f New ]'"rance, which has aPso j^iveii its name to the ps^^jtiLguarter of the city lying beneath the cliff nn the noithern face of the foitress, wheie its cnimblijig rums are still visible in the immediate^neighborhood of the passenger terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Erected untler /rench rule, during which it is believed to have been the most fashionable and the most used, it bade a final farewell to the last of its gallant, ' but unfortunate French dtfendeis, and to that imj. trial power which, for more than one hundred and fifty \ ears, had swayed the Colonial desiinies of ihe Canadas, and con- tested inch by inch with I ngland the supremacy of the New Worlt^j when Montcalm's defeated troops passed out beneath its darkeninyi shadows on the evening of the fatal nlh September, 1759. After the capitulation of (^)utbec, General Murray devoted himself at once to the work of sirengtl;ening the defences of the stronghold, and the attention in this respect paid to Palace gote appeais to have stood hini in good stead during the following year's campaign, when the iiiilisli invaders, dt-feaud in ihe battle of St. Foye, were compelled to take, shelter beliind t!ie wal's of the town and sustain a shoit siege at the hands of the victorious French under de Ldvi'-. In ijijijiheoll French structure was raised by the English on account of its ruinous condition ; bu'', in the meanwhile, during 1775, it had gallantly wiih-toxi tli.; assaults and siege ot the American invaders under Montgomery and Benedict 'mold. The somewhat ornate substitute by which it w as replaced is said to have resembled one of the gales of Pompeii, and seems to have been erected as late as the year 1830 or i8ji, as, in the course of ils tiemohtion' in 1874, an inscription was laid l)are, alle>tin'.; the fact that at l-.as. ihe, timbers and phnking had been put up by local workmen in 1831. It is not intended to rebuild this gate under the Duffeiin plan oiraccount of the great volume . f traffic, more especi dly since the com- pletion of the Can.adiati Pacific Railway, to whose terminus ihe r. adway which leads over its site is the most direci route. To mark that memorable site, however, it is intended to flmk it on eitlier side with |)iciuresque Norman turrets rising above the line of the fortification wrdl. 'f^opc (^3ate. . |OPE gate, also on ihe northern face of the ranipails, was the first of the two purely P.ritish gates of (^^uebec, and was erected in 1786 by C()loneh origin, but the first that grimly confronted in bygone days ihe visitor approaching the city from tl e water-side and entering the fortress,' i^, or rather was, Prescott gate, which commanded the steep approach known as Mountain Hill . The gate, which was more commonly known as the Lower Town gate, because it ' led to that paft— the ordest- of the city known by that name, was elected in 1-797 (10 replace a rough structi'ire of pickets, \^:hich existed at this point from the Ume of the siege by the Americans in 1775), by General Robert Prescott, who served in America during the revolutionary war, and, after further service in the West Indies, succeeded Lord Dorchester as the British Governor-General in Lower Canada in 1796, dying in 1815 at the age of 89 years, and giving his name to this memento of his administration, as well as to Prescott, Ontario. Old Prescott gate was unquestionably a great public nui^ance in times i.f peffce Hich as Quebec has happily known for many years, and as we hope it will continue to enjoy for many more ; its demol- ition in 1871 consequently piovoked the least legret of all in connection with the obliter- ation of tho-e curious relics of Quebec's historic past— its gates. For reasons which are obvious, it would be impossible to replace Prescott gate with any -Jtructurc of a like character without impeding very seriously the flow of traffic by way of such" a leading artery as Mountain Hill. Indeed, the utility of all such accessories .of an obsolete mode of warfare, and of much of the costly and comparatively modern defences of Quebec, has been altogether obviated by the great changes in the military art, which has supplied their shortcomings by means of the still more recent and formidable casemated foits and earthworks of Point Levis. ' - It is one of the proposals, however, of Lord UufTerin's plans to replace this gate by a light and handsome iron bridge of a single span, over the roadway, with flanking Norman turrets. (l) Xi)t <&otet-2)ieu. BOUT five minutes walk from the Chateau St. Louis Hotel, and an even less distance from the Upper Town Market Place and Basilica, are the Hotel Dieu Convent and Hospital, founded in 1639 by the Duehesse d'Aiguillon, niece of the famous Cardinal Richelieu, who brought out the Hospitali^res Nuns and placed them in charge. The entrance to the Ch»pel is on Charlevoix street. On his way thither from the hotel, the tourist, especially upon reaching St. John street, will be much interested in the Curious angles at which some of the streets run, and notably Fabnque, Garneau and Couillard streets, forming at their intersection of John stVeet a niimber of remarkable three-cornered lots h4»ing houses of the same irregular shapes constructed thereon. Some of the earliest European habitations erected in Canada were built upon these (i) Much of the above description of the old gates.of Quebec and of Lord Duff erin's plans of cily improvement is'conder.sed from Ihe 'illustrated supplerrent nf the Quebec Mormng C/ironicle, of June 4th, 1876, now, unfortunately, somewhat rare. ' .,' I 47 streets, which were tj^n mere Iridian pathways. Like all the early public buildings in Quebec, the Hotel Dieu was destroyed by fire prior lo the siege of 1759. It was subse- quently rebuilt. Amongst the fine paintings that adorn the walls of the chapel are the following : — • . The Nativity Stella. The Virgin and Child , Nod Coypol. Vision of Ste. Th^r^se Geul Monagot. St. Bruno in Meditation Eustache I^Sueur. The Descent from tliie Cross ' Copy by Plamondon. ► The Twelve Apostles Copy by Baillarg6 the elder. The tAonk ftn prayer De Zurbaran. Of greater interest, however, than either of these, admirable though they be as works of art, are the relics of the early Jesuit martyrs — massacred missionaries. Here are deposited the bongs of Father Lallement and the skull of the brave Breboeuf, the latter relic being contained in a silver bust of the missionary hero, sent by his kinsmen from France. The' story of the martyrdom of these two heroes is graphically told by Parkma*. (i) Dragged from their Huron Mission house at St. Ignace, south east of Georgian Bay, by the savage Iroquois, they were bound to stakes and slftwly tortured to death. Breboeuf continueAto loudly exhort his Huron converts, and promised them Heaven as a reward. " ThSi\lroquois, incensed, scorched him from head to foot to silence him ; whereupon, in the tone of a master, he threatened them with everlasting flames, for persecuting the ^t»sbippers of God. As he continued to speak with voice and counteflSTrce unchanged, they cut away his lower lip and thrust a red hot iron down I'is^roat. They tied strips of bark, smeared with pitch, about Lallement's naked body ^^nd set fire to them. Next they hung around Breboeuf's neck a collar made of hatchets heated red hot ; he, the indomitable priest, stood like a rock. A Huron in the crowds who had been a convert of the mission, but was an Iroquois by adoption, called out with the malice of a renegade, to pour hot water on their heads, since they had poured so much cold water on those of others. The kettle was accordingly slung, and the water boiled and poured slowly on the two missionaries. 'We baptize you I ' they cried, * that you may be happy in heaven : for nobody can be- saved without a good baptism.' Breboeuf would not flinch : and in a rage they cut strips of flesh from his '^bs, and devoured them before his eyes. Other renegade Hurons called out to him, ' You told us that the more one suffers on earth fhe happier he is in Heaven. \Ye wish to make you happy : we torment you because we love, you ; and you ought to thank us for it.' After a succession of other revolting tortures they scalped him ; when seeing ,him nearly dead, they laid 9pen his breast, and came in a crowd to drink the blood of so valiant an enemy, thinking to imbibe with it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart and devoured it." Lallement was tortured several hours longeri when one of _^the savages, tired of the entertainment, despatched him with a hatchet. Such was the martyrdom of those' whose relics are to be found in the chapel. (i) The Jesuits in North .America. Puge 388. / 4 -f^/ .. L,- Hi ^. f 48 If we descend Palace Hill, which bounds the Holel-Dieu on the west, and continue in the direction of the Canadian Pacific Railway station, until we reach tttie plateau at its foot, we find ourselves close to the site of \^- 'mor^ D(b %\\Uuc. [HE ruins of a portion of this building have been transformed into ale and porter vaults, and are siill to he seen in rear of IJoswell's Brewery. When tenanted by the infamous French Intendants, the palace was employed for yet viler purposes. It was at once ihe abode of luxury and the scene of revelry and debauchery, where Bigot concocted his nefarious plottings, and squandered the thousands which he robbed from the public treasury. Often he must ha<'e let hin^self into this princely palace with his latch key, in the wee sma' hours' of the morning, after his disreputable rendez-vot4i with the (air, or rather dusky, occupant of his country house, concealed in the woods ol Charlesbourg two or three 'miles away. An American gent.ieman wlio visited (^)uebec some time ago g way home' before night overtook liim. He did not care about ghost stories, for the ghost was in the habit of walking for him rft the end of each month with a great big wallet of tlol- lars ; so he sat down under a tree, and slept. Caroline was accustomed to climb a tree in that part of the wood everv nij^ht for the purpose of making up probs for the morning papers, and, unfortunately for iier, .she chose the tree under which the Intendant was sleeping it off. They saw each other, and loved at sight, and they might have been ever so happy if Mrs. Bigot didn't happen to catch on to the'racket. Caroline was sleeping one night in her forest bowei, dreaming about the very bright world she lived in when the green-eyed Mrs. Bigot crept in with a large snicke^nee, and with a howl of rage and vengeance severed the carotid artery of the sleeping Indian beauty. When the Intendant heard of the row, he constituted himself judge and jury on his wife, hanged her first and tried her afterwards. I^^tUien scooped up all the cash and bonds in the Provincial E.xcheqiier, and made hisS«^k in the dead of night to the States, where he soon got into Congress." \ / 't ^^■H - ^ ^.- -. '^T r the foUow- r the tale had le year 1 747, It of Fiance, nanager, but la, where he ; lone drinks find hi> way he ghost was vallet of tl(jl- cliinb a tree the moining iteiidant was ive been ever was sleeping ,'ed in, when howl of rage When the vife, hanged id bonds in ates, where ^ - », 49 N V V 1 n < HoPB Gate (Ins ide) In 1864. . ^ 1 ■N __„jj__ f > 1 *. ir"'"' ^tT '^' ' parish church of St In this Quarter 50 HE Ibw-lying portion of the city, stretching away west from the scene of the old palice is St. Roch's suburbs. Upon its main thoroughfare, St. Joseph street, areisituatid some of the finest shops in Quebec and the large and handsome R ocli's xnimsou...c. which is also Jhe industrial district of the city, are to be found almost all the exteUive tanneries and shoe factories for which Quebec .g noted. In years gone by. shipWilding was a great industry in St. Roch's, twenty to thirty wooden ships having frequently l^en built in a sin.gle winter, along the banks of the St Charles River. The whol] of this suburb, was destroyed by fire in 1845, , and numbers of human "'"" i866> beings perished. It was aga^n bumeeFoVer m 1 Xi)i Sitabel ^nb gortification SBall^- ^M^ HE Citadel ;? .: / ^^ ^,^„ and the old fortifications rank of course amongst the leading attrac- 'ti6ns of Quebec. The road leacUng up to the Citadel has already been pointed out, between the Garrison Club and St. Louis Gate. As there Isb steep hill to climb, many prtffer to driv^ to the entrance of the celebrated fortress. - ..Before arriving there, the tourist passes through a labyrinth of trenches, bordered on either side by High walls blocked by earthworks, all of which are pierced with open- •ings through whici gleam the mouthof cannon, and loopholed for musketry. Entrance to the Citadel is ajo barred by a massive chain gate, and also by the Palhousie gate, erecjfed in 1827;' i massive cfstvuction of considerable depth. The Citadel covers an area or„iife6ht forty acres on tW hightst point of Cape Diamond .^^ The. French erected woQJlen rltificatipns here, and spent so much money upon tb|rt\^- and upon the other defences of the ci(y, together with what was boo.lled by Bigot' (Thd^his assistants, that ' Louis XIV is r*p(jrtecl to hayc askol whether the f"'l'fica^J*T Quebec were built of goUl,-'^ j ' , '/^^ The first undbr B.ili^Ti rule wfre constructed by «|ie Royal Engineers, and fell into dec^y at the end cff the century. Their re-ct>nstructifft dal«s back to 1823, and w^s car- ried out according to plans submitted to and ai,pr(«#l by the Duke of Wellington, at a cost of about $'251000,000. The guard rooms a^ 'located in the Dalhousie gate, the IjirrsLcks aj-ecasiu.ated.aiul many oHlie otjfer'buildings are considp^d bomb-proof The detairs of th} alleged private un'dergrQUud passages communicating wiUi certain ■ lpcaliM*s?'J|^^d.lhe fortress arc of cou^^e fccrets that the military authorities keep to ■^hertft^V^-^Kfthe easterly end of the officers' quarters, a substantial row of stone ■ brfffihtfgs overro0kinc the riVci arc tVe vice icgal. V ■ f - . » \ • ' - ■■ w ^ ■ ■ ,. ¥ J « 1 * ' .y • • .T, *■ \ 4 ' 1 *■ le of the old aseph street) id handsome ■"^ t. to be found 5 noted. In lirty wooden e St. Charles ers of human lading attrac- been pointed s a steep hill hes, bordered ed with open- trjTi Entrance alhousie gatei idel covers an French erected ipon the other assistants, that ; were built of ,, and fell into , and wg,s car- cllington, at a )usie gate, the fd bomb-proof g with certain lorities keep to \\ row of stone ivernor-Genera. n in each year, laptured by the lOBD AMD I.A>« DUPPBRIH. ce of ordninic?, 5 HiU." Henry ilnictures carry J. 1. K.' t 'tf *i» f^W.A'*EF*<^' h -^ I I ' 52 us back to the middle ages.... The sentinel with his musket beside a man with his umbrella is spectral.... I should as soon expect to find the sentinels still relieving one another on th? walls of Nineveh. What a troublesome thing a wall is 1 I thought it was to defend me, and not I it." (I) . • The noon-gun on the Citadel still marks the meridian time as it did on the occasion of Thoreau's visit. He •described it as " answering the purpose of a dinner horn. " The fortifications are, as Thoreau says, omnipresent. No matter from what pbiht you look towards Quebec for eight or ten miles away, they are there still with their geometry against the sky. Nobody should miss the famous view of the river and the surrounding cpuntry from the King's Bastion, already referred to. Here is erected the flag-staff from • which waves the emblem of Britain's sovereignty in these parts It was by means of the halyard of this flag- staff that the American sympathizers, Genei-al Thaller and Colonel Dodge, in October^ 1838, made their escape from the Citadel, where they were prisoners. They had previously drugged the sentry; and contrived to get safely out of the city, despite the precaution of the commandant, Sir James McDonald, a Waterloo veteran. ^ Siterar^ anb ^i^torical Societt)- UE^EC is a storehouse of history, but its sanctum sanctorum is the Literary and Historical Society, whose quarters are in the Morrin College, on the corner of ■* Ste. Anne and St. Stanislas streets. ' It was established as far back as 1824 by the Earl of Dalhousie, then Governor-General of Canada, and through his influence a Royal Charter was obtained for it. The Scofie of the Society's op-rations is widespread, its coUecflon of manuscripts and rare historical documents, printed and otherwise, is extensive and valuable, and the library and reading room are exceedingly good, and serve their purpose admirably. Such students of history as Francis Parkman, General Rogers, Ben ! Perley-Poore, General James Grant Wilson, Mr. Edward Slafter and other men of mark have made frequent*use of its collections of pajjers, and it stands to- day as one of the foremost bodies of the kind on the Continent. Us presid ent, Dr. Geo. Stewart, F.R.S.C , F.tl.G.S., is ever ready to show any attention and courtesy that may be in his power^to people of literary tastes visiting Quebec. M orrin College is called after Ur. Morrin, its founder, has two faculties, arts and divinity, and is affiliated with McGill University, Montreal. The building was used as a jail until June, 1867. In April, 1E27, one Dueharnie was hanged. h'ere Hjr sheep stealing. The last execution at the old jail dates back mftre than tliirty years, the condemned, who was one Meehanfrom Valcartier, having been aJnvictcd of the murder of a neighbor, named Pearl, in a, street squabble. (I) A Yniikee'in Cnimda. Chapter iV. r \ •>>. 53 -SMrc^e^. IN close proximity ^Morrin College are the Methodist church and St. Andrew's (Presbyterian), "fte Baptist church is a little below and inside the St. John's ' gate, and Chalmer's (Presbyterian) is a little above the east of the Esplanade, on „ the upper part of St. Ursule. St. Patrick's, the parish church of the Irish Roman Catholics of Quebec, sijuated on McMahon street, close to both Palace and St. John streets, has one of the handsomest interiors of the city, its decorations beipg exceedingly beautiful. On St. John street, outside the gate, is St. Matthew's (Anglican), an exceed- ingly pretty structure both wit^iin and without, and possessing a new peal of bells. It has a surpliced choir, and by far the richest, most attractive and most ornate service of any Protestant church in Quebec. There are also on this street a small French Pro- testant church, and the large new church of St. Jean Baptiste to replace that destroyed by fire a few years ago. The remaining eity churches are not of much interest to tourists, if we .except the Basilica and English Cathedral, which have already been .described at considerabljjength ^ , Xh f arliamcnt |iDU«e- 1^' I HE Parliament Hous^|^J|art mental Buildings, situated immediately outside of St. Louis gate.^^Btpuis street,— or, as. it is here called, the Grande Ail6e,— are amon^Pili^est public edifices in Canada. Designed by Mr. E- E. Tach€ of Quelle, their coijisiruction were commeKCsd in 1878 and completed in 1887. The different varieties of stones employed in their erection were all quarried in the Pro- vince of Quebec. The buildings form a perfect square, each side of which is 300 feet in length, and are four stories in height with mansards, and towers at each corner. From the main tower facing the city, the view of Qiiel)ec and surrounding country is unrivalled. The interior is well worthy of inspection, especially the handsomely tiled main corridors and the richly furnished chambers of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly. The bronze Indian group in>opt of the main entrance to Parliament Hous^ is by Hubert, the Canadian sculptor now residing in Paris, in which city it was much admired f M its lx)ldness of conception and artistic design and execution. Heroic statuary of the principal actors in Canadian history is to find a lodgment in the various recesses m the f.ont facade of the Parliament House, that of Count Frpntenac being already in position. This block of provincial buildings has already cost between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. If contains an excellent library, and in its vaults may be seen in excellent condition, all or nearly all, the original archives of New France before the Conquest by Great Brilaui in 1760. In these buildings there was held in September, 1890, the ninth annual meeting of the American Forestry Association, on which occasion two hickory trees sent from The Hermitage, Gener'al Andrew Jackson's old home in Tennessee, were planted, wh^re they may now be seen on the Grande AlUe, or south side of the buddings. The venerable chief Sioui, of the once powerful Hurons. acompanied by his son both m >' full Indian dress, visited the Associ.iiion, and addressed the members, m French, in the following emotional language I ;i a/ V«. i^^^jtl^^ Mi. ^ -^ % -vii^Kf- r«^ * 54r * ■1 ,va IDl ■ ■I IBH ' *■ . .* 1 ' • t 1 o ^ A \ N * ■ • 1 .^* . '-iiiy^L^.iia^»J;itikv ^t^ t « ' . ' '■ ' V • .^ ■■r-'-':*--:'' »■' Tiim f 58 ;. ;e a« A. child-en ^aifc^st, eo^e .0 «e.c»m= *= «»^' f fl'Tl K.ed : ' r;tT wl V:- *:»^ " WU> „.v. ,W ,,... «< ».. Hu™, .„a .^e gratitude of their heirts. FarewelU » .HAT large and ver, hand.o.e -^ture with^^ided^^iU^ ^^ I on the opposite side of the road from the P-^~^^7^;,:;,/3ointly by the » feet.further away from the city, 'V'^.h^L S m^t y rganLatLs. Federal goverliment and city, corporat.on for the use of bca ml y J^^^ .^^ ^^ The mam road here, though really a -'^'.--^'°"^;/„^^,''7: .^ i„ ii^ks in.888.89. French name of Grande All6e ^7-^^;"^;"; one of the most beaut.ful and • , The drive oat by this road and m by the ^ «• ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ll^e are the .0. deservedly popular in ^^f^^f^.^^^ ^fte. passing the toll ' prettiesl and most modern <^^^^^^'\l^^.^ ;„, gUmp.es of the country seats ate anl the Plains of Abraham, ^e ^^^^J^,l ^...^ly St. Lawrence on of our leading merchants, and sp enc^id P "/-"^^Y^^"^,,,!,,, ,uh its background of ,h.one s,de. o.t the other ^^ ^^^ ^^'-'^^^jj^: , ^^f.^lu sta;d out the pretty French blue Laurentian mountain*, on the gentle a cents ./ . „ , : CanW.an villages of Charlesbourg -^ Lorette. ^^. ^ better '.ie^^f the famous Martello ^0-- are «en be ore ^^ .^^^^^ of half a contment, and . ,bese an.talso of the famous battlefield, wj^.h^^^^^^^^^ ^.y be had by taking pass Spencer Wood, the official reg.dence of the L'—nt ^ occupant^ 'Quebec, and formerly that of ^^^^^^^''^'^f^^J^^^^^^^ had. ^ tie Hon. A. R. Angers, is one of the most POP^^ ^J ."^^ ^^.^^^ent, at,d is a well- He has been both Jud.e and leader ^^^^ ^ P -; ^ l^^^,^,, ^y a lengthy, drive known patron of l.terature and the art. The re.dcnce 1 p ^^^^^^^^^^_ ^^^ Uu-ough a forest, avenue. ^^^^^^^^ l^re ce and th. oi^posite shore, and afford l^auty of the s.tuatton. overlookmg the ^ " !;^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ,^,^c, might well" be deemed ing a splendid view of Cape Duamond .,n^l t c ^^ J ^ ^ ,, g.eat and .fapproachab. didnot the env.rons^ cu^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ surpassing loveliness. Ro^ty, in the pe of Albany, and the . Edfnbur^,. the D,ke an4. Duchess of ^^^^^^SVl^ ^^'''' "' "'"' '"'''"^ Pnncess Louise, has frequently ^^«;;;^ .^^^^^ ^^ /l^yToved to bye but would liU. to retreat Lord Elgin used to say \'^*' ^h*.. re ft not ^^^ a. elegant estate rest hW bones. Adjoining the gubernatonal ^^^^ ^ ^^'^'^ P /^ ' . _ . of J M.VMoine.F.R.S.C, the historian of Quebeu^ ^ ^ , f . 4* .... * J. fi,'~^m^ " ^ "*< r ' ^?.wv»^:'^'' ' ^ ,-;■>■■ ■:■'■"•■ 56 . aSolfe^^ ^pnutttent anb" t|)e Elaine of mxam\^ ,.- S already ^indicated, a pleasant walk of about a mile m,y be had from the Chateau St. Louis Hotel to the Plains of Abraiiam, .over what is known as the Cove Field This is public property and intersected by. numerous footways The tourist takes to the field, on the soath side of the road-, between St Louis gate and " . the first building outside of it, which is the new Skating Rink, Reachmg he he.ght of la d ew hundred feet from the road, the pedestrian finds himself on the dass.c ground Ihfch intervenes bet ween the CUadel and the Plains, while the v.ew of the'St Uwrenc ■ at his feet and the ^picturesq^scenery of the other shore more than rep^ h^ for the visit That broken ground and those artificial rtiounds are remnants of the old French . /Earthworks., Continuing along the summit of the cliffs t^t overlook the nver, we y^elch the Martello towers, which were bmlt as outposts of the Citadel fort.ficaUons sonae j seventy ^^^''^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^f^^. Heaviest fighting towards the end ofthe famous battle of the .3th September, . 1759, '^^•hen the advance' l.r« o the British Army followed up the advantage 'they had gained shortly after the striking down of Wolfe by a' French bullet. The Plains of Abraham, properly so called at the ' . present time, stretch away from near the St. Louis toll gate, westward, upon the south ' side of the road, and extendfrom the highway to the brink of the steep precipice over-^ hanging tlTe river. - ' The battlefield is Government property, but is at present rented as a pasturage for the cattle of city milkmen. . Occasionally there is horse-racing here under the manacemtnt of the Quebec Turf Club. r -ru At the western extremity of the enclosure is Marchmount, the property of Thomas Beckett, Esq., and just beyond is Wolfe's field, the splendid estate of the Hon. E J. r . Pnce head of one of the leadmg firms in the English and Canadian lumber .trade. It is . not 'in name alone associated with the liero of Quebec. On the river side of this pro perty beneath the cliff, is Wolfe's Cave, the landing place of the Bruish bero of 1759, '• • and^e stee, and narrow path is still pointed out upon the face of thj^.rocky precipice •where General Wolf., nn-«8^ ' "^ " ^'^P'* l'«'^«''" «<5'"o" of 187,1. 'fc IW^-^i-'^V^^Jj*^ #^ om the a as the otways. ;ate and leight of ; ground ^wrence » for the . French < iver, we ns softie ards the e of the ng down :d at the he south ice over-^^ )asturage nder *lhe Thomas on. E.J. de. It is this pro , of 1759, precipice, s de'voted s this, to e fresh in s -sketches ; histories elaborate tcalm and- indoubted- exact spot ch crowns es," edition \ . a^3fe^£^^Ju^jL_ ^ ' \ 58 yonder knoll, is the district prikon,— "a hideous jail," says Joaquin Miller, '« surmount- ing almost the very spot wher^ the immortal Wolfe fell and died." It was during the British assault upon the Fretjch position Sr\ this rising ground that Geheral Wolfe received his death wound. Hi J^iv^d long enough to learn that the French army was .put to flight, and then expressid his readiness to die. The Highlanders closely pui-sued the fleeing enemy, and many ofl them were butchcfB* before they reached the bridge pf boats over, the St. Charles, towirds which they rushed by way of what is now St. John's suburbs, St. Genevieve hill and St. Roch's. The Plains of Abraham were so called after one Abraham Martin, whcl was pilot for the King q|^" ranee in the St. Lawrence, and who acquired this property some two and a half centuries ago. ^ Lord Wolseley, whof, in his capacity of Ranger of Greenwich Park, is an attendant at the old parish church of St. Alphege, has, it is announced, expressed his surprise that the remains of General James Wplfe, the hero of Quebec, should lie in the vaults of the church beneath 'the Royilp^w" o%ially occupied by the ran^r— without' a memorial to mark their existenfce. To the public at large the grandiose monument to "V^olfe's memory in Westminster Abbey, Wilton's correctly classical nude figure of. the hero, with its accompanying allegorical ^aj ;(?/»^ representing the chief incidents of the famous St. Lawrence^ampaign, the Heights of Abraham, the faithful Highland sergeant, the wounded warrior, ana the oak decorated with its trophy of tomahawks, has long given tlje impression that the ashes of Wolfe repose in the Abbey. Doubtless, had the nation's wishes been consulted, the remains of the hciro of Quebec would have been laid to rest in the national Walhalla. But, at his mother's earnest prayer, the body of the warrior, borne back to his liative land, was interred, in the family vault in the parish church of Greenwich, wher^ little James Wolfft' was educated, and where his father occupied the mansion still standing on the Blackheath outskirts of the park in the shady pathway known as Chesterfielil Walk, not far from the Ranger^^s Lodge, a house in after years tenanted by the late Lord Lyttleton. Amongst those who rendered signal service to the forces under Wolfe was the Eamous navigator James Cook, 'who conducted the boats to the attack at Montmorency, _«arra managed as well the disembarkation at the Heights of Abraham. (Semeterie^. W |W0 of the prettiest cemeteries ^hat it is possible to see are within a couple of miles of Quebec. The tourist jmsses both Woodfield,the Irish Catholic cemetery, and Mount Hei*mon, the Protestant burying-ground, when driving out the St. Louis road. Both of these should be visiVed. They commandpicturesque viewsofthe St. Lawrence and surrounding country. In lone grave in the Mount Hermon cemetery are interred the bodies of some 200 Scotch immigrants who lost their J^ves in the burning of theriver steamer*" Montreal," on the 26l\h of June, 1857, at Cap Rouge, a few miles above tjne eematiMLpvhile on their way fr^m (Quebec to Montreal. A no^lvllHHMfi^vc in this beautili^l home of the dead is thus described by Gen. Jas. Grant WitsolvNof New York; in the\" New Yorlc Genealogical and Biographical'. Society Record" :— , ' \ ^ f,Wvsg.S -r SH-s SjIS **, *.^'S»!ir«?'"'%SS^^^J Quebec; and was .nd„recitations. il^^^j^^^ZT^r^^'^^^^ On Saturday. July 7. . announced for ' A mcht wi' Bums, ^f°« J^ ? supposed from exposure to _ whilefishingin:i^eSt Jo.ph he^^^^^^^^^^ „„e of the excessive heat, -^^ ^^j^//^^^^^^^^^^ 30 fatal in Canada during that summer. , the first victims to the cholera, Mrmcn was , . beautifiil St. ..He was Wd in Mount He-ncem^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ _ , Lawrence, some two -J^e^ «o"^J 1 desUnv of Canada. A few years ago. David immortal victory which changed the dest my ot c ^^ ^^^ ^^^ Kennedy; another Scotch singer, -^-ted to Df G org , ,^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ of £.oto be devoted ^o ovever canng for^^^^^^^^^^ . Wilson. His last letter addressed ^^ ^^^ J^^y^^^^^^^ ^^d the professional singer's, ; .hose rendering of Jacobite songs -^^f ^^^^J^^^" ; ^^, ,„, ,„ J,„ces his anticipated i^gtii^^rr^--^ •Allowing inscription : " Sacred to the memory of . '-' John Wilson, The Scottish Vocalist, Celebrated for the excellent taste, « Feeling, and execution - , . With which he sang the airs Of his native Caledonia. He was an amiable and unassuming man. - , Died at Qujebec, July, 1849- • Erected by some of his friends and \^ , Admirers in Canada, 1852.' ■ Shelly, whose ashesUe ^^^^^t:^ woujd almost make on? in love with de^ath toJ^J'"" j^^^^^ from his grave x couli be said ofWilson's Canadian resungp^^^^^^^ few scarlet autumn leaves, a feathered «^"fj- ^^^^'"^^4 .^nor. Although far away a brilliant maple, with a music sweeter than lu oj^ J ^^„ „f ^, „,„ ,ace, on fr ^ ■«l|8|»|RSp(^JP>i!W^i-«»lf»"^,4j. "!'T;"",5>ryissWif<(Bj>" r.-rrr yjt^ eo ;i 5 i M (1 ^ . , i "V«^^ ■" ¥;n' ' --^^:4\ tU-^ /..: ^B i ^';^*" •■■ 1 f. ^H Si .SSsiS I'/ ''W^'' «3 the most is on the ;h such a rs of lake : Charles ke Beau- id side of the cdn- spent the ' ^nd th^ ampment hree days his place- c in 1888 t building I in New in Canada faith with a over the village of slope of a immediate the ruins ;e. These lie original ;»avagance Dmpanions ssipatioii ; he Golden and forms ien d'Or." jle beauty- Wolfe's Monument. '. 1 r i'ir , .^•iki: The main road that y 64 asses through Charlesbourg leads on to . - ^afeei SBeau^^ort anb St (£^arle^- iHESE charmitig l^nkes should he seen by every visitor to (Quebec, from which they are only-distant about twelve miles. The prettiest is J.ake lieauport, but both are bewitchingly bea'utiful. They nestle in recesses of the Laureiuian Nfd.untain.s Lake Heauport being hemmed in by them, right to the water's edge. It resembles some of the smaller of the*Swiss lakes • and is considered to fully equal them in beauty. The speckled trout with which its waters teem are noted for the brilliant lustre of their variegated hues They afford excellent sport to the angl^-. So do those of Lake St. Charles, which is a splendid sheet of vvat^r s,x miles in lengih... Lake St. Charles is the source of the river of that name.mnd furnishes the ci'y of (juebec v.ith its supply of fresh water. In the country which surrounds these lakejs and along the road thdt leads to them the air is fragrant with the gummiy odor ofti ' ' e i)ine scented ivoods. O : ;3:W, milk^ of 3:>fontmorcud. ' , HE far-famed FallJ of Montmorenci-nearly a hundred feet higher then those of N.agara-are t lemselves^well worth a visit to Quebec to see.) Mx.ntmorenci ' 'i^ is^ eight miles^ distant from (Quebec. It may be reached either .by the Quebec Montmorenci i-^ Chadevoi radruad, or by a pleasant drive over an excellent macadam-' ue. road, from which a sjplendid view of the nver and surrounding country may be had. The cataract is one;of the cluef natural attractions in the vicinity of ()uebec the water ,n its perpendicular fill for ,1,.. whole 250 'feet of its leap over the face "of the rock being bioken up ,r,tu white and fleecy foam. Its roar is tremendous, and can .sometimes be heard for mdes away. The spray that rises from it' woifld soon drench to the skin any- body vemunog too near i,. In the winter, portions of the spray freeze .as they rise, and orm an ice coi^e in the sh^pe of a sugar loaf, which irt some'sea^ons exceeds ,20 feet in height. (Mebeeers then^um parties for .sliding down the cone in toboggans,-an exciting and exhd.a, a.ihg s,,ort. The Falls may ,>est be view.d from l.low, and th^ tire- some descent to their foot^ and yet more tiresome chmb back again up a staircase containing nearly 400 st^,s. nia^be avoided by taking tf.e train from (Quebec to Mont- ■uorenc, the railway paling, Udow and close to the Falls. This •ew ^ay also be b.ad when taking the tnp to 14 lUmne Ste. Aune describ^l below. The drive along the ghway 4-rom Qu ; f"r before e. eUing a ian.ling abALuebeo, General Wolfe -l.sembarked .s trcx,ps oiuhe eastern sid^.of ,he Montmorenci /ver. ancJ vainjy eiu.eavore. tT id and ^^undtd. 1 here is a|.. a splendid viewflhe li.er, island and city from the head \. Ml I / ^ f^ m which , » - , *• r " i» 65 1. They ed in by ss lakes, which its ey afford splendid r of that country fragrant :n those morenci Quebec, cadam- may be xc, the he rock netimes :in any- se, and feet in is, — an he tire- aircase Mont- be had ng the St will ce ami of the l^i raim's '■ ^*' larked ( ilodge killed : head i » * M'.^NTMORHWCV KaI.I.S T'ROM M HPB v,_ y. « y V of Hie Fallvto which the tourist can drive, while near by is seen the manor of the Hall family, which ninety years ago was the country residence in Canada of the late Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria. There was formerly a^suspensiori bridgeover the river at the vecy brink of the Falls but nearly half a century ago it broke ^vway from its mooring, and was swept over the cataract, carrying with it an unfortunate farmer and his family with their vehicle The stone p.ers of this bridge still remain. The bodies of the jfoor people were neve^ recovered, all objects passing over the Falls disappeared in a subterranean cavity worn by the constant dripping of the water for thousands of years. Several suicides have occurred here. , Nobody should miss seeing the Natural Steps, which are about a mile above the These are considered by some people to be the grandest feature of Mon tmorenci Here the w.ld nver is wldly magnificent. It dashes with the velocity of a mill race through narrow passes hedged i^^by precipitous walks of adamantine rDck, and anon leaps heedlessly oveV natural barriers, forming in succession furious cascades and seething pools. The peculiar formation of the rocky banks has given them the title of the Natural They .are the wonder and admiration of ail who see them * ^^.^^ a'pin^e ®avtm\ ant ^hatmi JRicfeer. ^HE pretty French Canadian rivers-ide parishes of L'Ange Gardien and Chateau R.Cher, wh.cU are situated in the above or.ier immediately east of Montmorenci is to b. h.T r^^''^' ""' '"'■"'"'^' '■"''^ "'■ '"^""^y- '^^<^<="«"' ^''ipe shooting IS to be had upon their beaches. ^ ^f^7-^;'^' "^' ^^'^T ^'''"'" '""' '^'''"'y''^ ^y ^""■'='» «°'^>ierv after the battle ^it:f::;s:;i;^^.e'"^^ : '"^ "'- ^^'^' ^"^'-" ''-^- -^ ^^^ --'^• i^T 53onnc etc. ?(niH\ ^Tadjstance of twenty miles from Quebec is the 'far-famed shrine of Ste. Anne J^ de Heaup,6. the parish of this name adjoining that of Chateau Richer. Since - co.m»rv /r'' . r"' ^''"■''^'""^ li^^^ "-esortfed to this place from all parts of .he CO n y. , d by thousands annually seeking to ,. cu.edtf the various ills t'hat flesh . he s k'^a reT Tl^T T^'^^ "^^ -'''''''' "-^' --' ^ ^^ "''- ''-s. and U a (he Mck aie healed, the blind are made to .ec, the deaf to hear, the lame to w.lk wuh ease, and those mgh to ,.ea,l, have strength an., vigor come back o thenra t" ■ .0 dt V Tf "•■ '""^'^'"''"" °^''"^' '-'' «"-' ~ -"' "- pure ■; the good St. Anne, the V.rg,,, Mary., mother, one of whose finger joint bones is Mil non and the ma^l. of the miraculous ^.rmeate the whole ntmo.pl.e^ of ,tJ. Annel ^' • ■%'^% "r'f 'fjH's .r 67 The handsome new church was some few years ago raised by Pope Pius IX to the dignity of a basihca ; and actWupder the authority of Pofe Leo XIII, Cardinal Tasche- reau m 1878 solemnly crowned^lTe statue of the saint in her own sanctuary, amid great rejoicmgs. The very railroad that carries the pilgrims from Quebec to Ste. Anne has been solemnly consecrated and bles^d by the Cardinal,-^as well as the cars by which they travel and the locoTnotives that draw them. The Basilic^ is one of the fmest churches m the.Province. It is 152 feet in length by 64 wide, and cost $200,600. The decorative paintings upon its walls and in its numerous lateral chapels are exceedingly interesting and sometimes quite artistic. Tourists and artists have come from long df tances to visit them. But the chief interest attaches to the huge tiers of^utches and trusses, and sticks^ and splints, piled up eleven storil^l high, which have been left here by their former owners, whom the miraculous intervention of the Canadian thaumaturge relieved from further necessity foi; them. The freque*fecy of these miracles, which are oft-times reported daily during the pilgrimage season, has made th««Canadian Loretto as celebrated on the American continent as Notre Dame de Lojirdes is in Europe. The shrine is visited by hundreds and thousands of pilgrims every summer froffi all parts of the United States, and for their tecommodation, the RedemptorisfFathers in charge of the diurch deliver their sermons in German, Italian^ Dutch, I^lemish and Spanish, as well as in English and French. ' * * . ^ ' The wonders wrought here date from the earliest period of the colony's existence In the first part of the seventeenth century, some Bretgn fishermen, overtaken by a fearful storm, vowed to Ste. Anne to erect a sanctuary in her h'onor if she would deign to save them from the terror of the ..ea. They landed safely u|«f the north bank of the St Lawrence, and redeemed their obligations by building a small wooden ctiapel. which gave Its name to the parish and was the scene of numerous miracles. It was replaced by a larger structure in,i66o, which subsequently rebuilt al^d'enlarged finally gave way to the present magnificentvchurch. The Basilica contains not only the relics of Ste. Anne already referred to, but a portion of the rock from the grottS in which the Virgin Mary was born ; a handsome chasuble of gold embroidery, presented by Queen Anne of Austria, mother ofLouis XIV, and worked largely with her own fiands; and a magnifi- cent painting of Ste. Anne and the Virgin Mary, by Lpbrun, pr«ented by the Viceroy Iracy in 1666, and which is to l)e seen hanging over the main altar. Mr. W. H. H. Murra* thus refers to the miracles'^attributed her^o La Bonne Ste. Anne i " I know nothing about these wonders wrought, mercifttlly wrought, for wretched men and women at the shrine yrtnder, under the Likurcntian hills, save whall^see and know as the results. I know that there men and women are Itealetl of their il'ls, and lacking the use of needed members arc made whole again ; but by whom they arc healed or by what power of powers, immediate or intermediate, I know not at all, fjh am not] Iwlieve me, even curious to know. Enough for nic to know that a fragment of old lime" Palestine is in Canada ; that the sea of Galilee empties one of iti ancient sj^rings into the St. Lawrence, and that there is one spot on the American continent where theologians "^ are puzzled, scieiiists are silencctl, and a positive medicine, h in operation that lOme grasping Yankee cannot patent and monoi>olize. Had this Canacfian Urctto l>ecn on 68 BH =,~i^--^-- ^m W-] theMernmac, we shpuld Jiave*" Ste, Anne's Pills" and " Porous Plasters ^ a la Ste. Anne," hawked overlhe whole world, and the Grace of God would have been patented and duly labelled. ; nfe tourist in-Quebec will not have performed his whole duty if he fails to take the lovely dr^ye to Lorette Falls, situated about nine miles away frofn town. - "he route lies tifrough a most interestiAgj>iece of territory, charming to the eye, and rich in historic association. Fjom the carriage window, or from the height of the fast-speeding caleche, one may view landscapes and waterscapes of surpassing beauty, while the ;ival villages of French Lorette and Indian Lorette afford Ihe thoughtful observer much food for reflection. The best time to take this delightful drive is in the morning. One may leave the»gt. Louis Hotel immediately after breakfast, an3 it will, not be long 'before your driver \^ill be pointing out to you the various features of interest - along the. way. 'I'h« roads are always good which lead to famed Lorette,, the home of the Christian Hijrons, Ijineal descendants of those ancient warriors, who waged such savage wars with the IroqucJis in the time of Front^nac, two hundred years ago. One first catches a glimpse of the French village. It is situated on the highlands, and from its top one gets -a fine view all-around, the city in the distance looking veiy striking and bold, and the Parliament Buildings standing out grandly against the clear sky. But the driver hurries on tO the settlement of the Indians. The residence of the ChieT is a point of vantngc. It is' the correct thing to get out of your carriage and pay your respects to this potentate, and look at his house, which is a marvel of oleanliness. He will show his medals and many curiosities, if. you ask to see them. Thie Lorette cl}apel, which is ovea" one hundred and fifty years old, is wdl worth "a visit. It is of the same model and'of the same dimen.Mons as that of the Santa Casa, froflj whence the image of the Virgin,"a c >py of that in the famous sanctuary, was sent to the Indians. Charlevoix relates that "nothing is more affecting than to hear them sing in two choirs,— men on one side, women on the other,— prayers and hymns of the cnurch in their own language." The tourist will find interest in looking at the Indian cottages on the plateau of the Falls. These have been laid out, apparently ou^ no particular design, and a walk over the twenty acres of land which contain the^ vi^ill occupy only a few moments of time. But f|p;']Ei"fllls themselves are the princ'ip.ft^'^ attraction of this charming drive. They are very well worlh a long journey to see. The spot where the foaming waters come tumbling^ down,jpver rocks and "'§t°"c*> ■"'f through picturesque gorges, is certainly wild enough. Onecan see the cascade as he stands on the little hill, a few feet away from the inn. Butlf^^ee the Falls in all their t beauty the tourist must go down the steps which lead to a . ravine. Five mini^te|ffalk will bring you, to a moss covered rock, and on this ihelte\ed pl'ace you mnjiR for hours listening lo the noisy splash, and watching the dashing waters as they hurry along, foaming and plunging over the stones. Lorette Falls differ widely from the cataract of Montmorency, but they are just a« striking In their way. Some think them more jbeautiful. N » ' ■ - A,-. saaiaiiiMiiim^a^i^aM&ttttJMMaaiMia^ Il> %Vrt*J % %. Ju^ above the'Indian village is tli^^a-teau d'Eau, where, from a miniature laiie formed by a^m across the river, two, lines of iron pipe, one 30 inches^nd the other 18 inches in^diamcter, draw oft thi water siipply, with^'hich they sppfi the city of Quebec ■At this point boats and canoes n^ay. be obtained and the river Mcended to its source, Lake St. Charles. • . 1: . » |Alf> Rouge is a delightful '^ot which! passed on the drive ou^^, I^S^iji t by St. Foye road, but^^^dl worthy of a Itiecial visit dpd '^Mfe thro^^ parish, over a pretty ^8^|^*that here flows into the St. Ij^wrs^ce. , '\ ' Continuing the drive t^/^^^. Augustin, thi^ tourist reaches' thfiWe/ty L^fet Calvaire or Lake St. Augud^f^^istante of twelv5*mij||?frorii,Quebe*r the drive to it from Cap Rouge is ot^d||P^o|JeMi^^^he n%y entrancing one& in the j^trict of Quebec, and overto<^ t^sjf.i,,^ biink of the lofty precipice. . Th^ichjircfew* ! ■ lit.' There is also a dented chT»(;|,- \ilfl;r4^ iqi to which is a legeftd that Ue'wfeJ^i ' e taken' to the new military %ts%ith6heights abo^e, constructed by the Imperial Govern- ment at a cost of over ft milllori.of dollars, and.on no account should the tourist fail to visit th,; Engineer's Camp « St. Joseph de Uvis, whence a magnificent panorama of ^ river, island and the f^lls of MonWttorenei lies spread out before the admirefs of Natnre's charms. Indian Cove, which lies between the Camp and the riverside, derives its name from the fact that an encampment of Inaians was formerly located there. ^ Just below th«rtTrurch o^t. Joseph de Uvis, which is passed on the way from the Camp to the riverside, the Ei|ercolonial Railway crosses the roadway over an iron -^mdge Here, in Decemlx;r. ,890, a whole train was derailed and thrown completely over the embankment, resulting in the death of ,en passengers and the maiming of several others. "* ' 'C ,, 1""'^^ '' '^' Government graving-dock, a masMvg^cJ»f masonry which K able t6 accommo,hte the largest steamships running to tli^fPiwrence, being 484 feet % itiJSBmaiBais amtMSm msaiabiim imaas^A -< - -vt'n " ■;r Ha8I.TAN'5 Interior [^ear Quebec.] <;*> t^C'^ 'Uy Am op Abrahah (1840,) lit. ^" ^^^■■■ri-.f...ia.^......^^..,.a^^^i^,^a,^a;^iia6l ,t>ir "jy5-r^f,'m»i'?r'»»j^*i- ^tre.^ t( 1 ^ V"^ >l^>r'^^^. long and loo feet wide. It well repays a visit, especially when u vessel is docked in it, in which case the visitproaay descend into it and walk right under the keel of pne'of the modem levhrtliians of the deep. Together with the new tidal and other .docks at the mouth of ihrf^t. Charles, this addition to the facilities for the accommodation of -shipping in the port of Quebec, one of the finest ports in- the world, (l) has already involved an expenditure of over five million of dollars. ^ ^ X^t Scene of a Xxa0 (Srecution* — tf It' ■*' T a short distance from the Levis church, where four roads cross, there was enacted in 1763 a remarkable tragedy. ■ A \yoman commonly called La _ _ Corriveau, who wa's credited with having been the accomfJice of - Angdlique de Meloise in the murder of Bigot's anioureuse, (^aroline, the IndiaX maid, at Beau- manoir, (2) was accused of having, murdered, at St.'Valier, her husband Dodier, some say by pouring molten led into his ear while he slept, but according to ae Gasp6, (3) by smashing in his skull with a blunt instrument, after which she is said to have dragged his body to the stable and placed him behind a horse, to convey 'the impression that the animal had' kicked him to death. She was tried by court martial in the Ursuline Convent, — then the headquarters of General Murray, for the Colony w|s at this time under military reign. Sentenced to be first hanged, and then to have her body exposed' in chairis, she was executed according to Kirby upon\the Levis hill, in full view of the city of Quebec, but if De Gasp6 and LeMoine are correct, close to the St. Loui^ road or Grande AlWe in the city itself, 'at the then usual place of execution, at what is now knowfT" as Perrault's hill, the highest point of the road, from which the descent is made Wh'ch iMds immediately to ihe Plains of Abraham proper. No matter which was her place ofeWcution, her body was for a long time exposed in an iron cage, made to its shape with arms and legs, and affixed to a pole at the cross roads just described, — a warning to evil doers and the terror of the neighboring inhabitants, who complained of nocturnal ' apparitions and clanging noise?, produced, of course, by the wicked spirit of the dead murderess. Finally, the cage, with its ghastly contents, was interred in a neighboring fieW, only lo be exhumed and re-interred in 1830, again recovered in 1850, and then R)ld to a collector of relics, and deposited in a public museum in Boston. < (i) " Quebec's docks ^and tidal basins, when completed, will rank among the- most perfect works of the kind in the world." — D r. Geo, Slew .irt, F.R.G.S.,- in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. See also "The Poi t"of Qiithec, — its' facilities and prospects," by E.T. D. Chambers, Quebec, 1890, (a) Kirby's "Golden Uog," chapter XXXV. (3) " Les Anciens Canailiens|" edition of 1877. Vol, 11, page 155. «r 4 '^fV*f^ ■«Hrt"*ig' IVfl^ "v ••y^'j^ vS-ntS^'t^'*— ■^"S^ST'ssf* < 73; • Slaubiere galte- :^* IT is well worth the while to drive from Levis to Chaudifere, to see the magnificent falls, though the trip may also be made by steamer or by train. These falls are ' somewhat similar to those of Lorette, though upon a larger scale, their height being about 130 feet. - Thoreau relates that he saw here the most brilliant rainbow that he ever imagined :— " Not a few faint prismatic colors werely, but a full s^mi-cM-cle, only four or five rods in diameter, though as wide as usual, so intensely bright as to pain the eye/ and apparently as substantial as an arc of stone." (i) ^ Etcheinin or New Liverpool, which is passed on the way from Quebec to Chaudtfere, possesses one of the handsomest churches in Canada. Its frescoes are the admiration of visitors from far and near. S^te of £)rlean^, SAIL down the river to this beautiful island is one of the su.mmer attractions of Quebec. Jacques Cartier called it the Isle of Bacchus from the numerous wild grapes found there. Numbers of Quebecers have summer residences here, and thousands of others escape the heat of many a summer's afternoon by the trip to the island and back again, with its cool river breezes and delightful scenery. Tourists cannot more pleasantly spend one of their afternoons in^e vicinity of Quebec than by taking the steamer for the island immediately after luncheon, returning to the St.^Louis in time for dinner. .?' X^t^ Page 66. « t -cl ■^ hr ^ ) >^»#^l 'S-5"*'Kipff&J >!T^S. 9 3 74 r» '^^ ^^ ■ ■ iii iij j ji i |. .' 75 I approaches. I could pack up my traps and return home feeling well satisfied w^h wl^at I have air ady seen of your country, the dreams of my early youth havmg been more han reah ed wish'to see nothing finer than the bays on the St. Lawrence and Sruemy river, or the grandeur of Cape Eternity and Trinity Rock on the Saguenay. "'f^uv country seems to say with the river of grandeur and beauty :- » ' Some may come and some may go, But I flow on for ever." r^- One will naturally enjoy a few days of quiet repose at the homelike Chateau St. Louis Hotl with its picturesU. -ird and historic surroundings, after a v.s.t to the wdd awe-insplring SaguendJ^ " - sr^e 8ap ®t 3o6n eountr?. - IP IF the tourist be a sportoman, he cannot afford to leave Quebec without payjng a visit t ha portsman's p^di'se, lying away amongst and beyond the Laurent.an h.ls . thlt bound the horizon as he looks northward from the city, and which ts known ns the Lake S John country. No mountain region on the face of the globe offers more int^sUne features to tjie geologist than that of the Laurentides. Th.s range forms the bilKre o? rodestl^ntain chain upon t^.^ crust of the globe. Th-sands of years ??^Noah' Ark croulL upon the summilof Mount Ararat, or the fiat had gone Y r Xh fir^ sh Jcrllk iLht upon a world of Chaos, the mountains of which these S rert^TnhUU t nlo^^^^ lifted aloft their hoary heads white with the ::i:ofathousandy.rs.J|^ tW^tP.:X^ S^r^S:^:: is ^ th^Jgh a heavy sand banl. t S:::Se.stoc;ne deposits of sj|^, ^ rri^^ s^S^l^" base of Greenland's .cy -—- /| J^.^f .Tf U^ador and'creenland covered a X^T^^^^^^ of the Lake St. John Railway have .ny real idea MJSiculIies encountered in its construction. It passes, too, through a remarkable '^*^^^'*^;"/"'; ?"rhlT^enery and thickly studded with the most charmirjg,lakes country, fu I fj'^'^^^^^ ^k 'si^^ph and the many trout lakes on the other side i:rer:hrcattfir:y:w V. ^ ^j~ ■ik 1. ,> ^%f . f' 76 a leaping, roaring, dashing, inpetaous river,-a succession of foaming rapids and fleecy cascades It is sometimes hemmed in on both sides by lofty mountains, ofteq so closely that there is scarcely room left on either bank for the roadbed of the railway Ime. At a distance of 190 miles from Quebec, the tourist by this railway reaches Lake St. fohn -a great inland sea, almost circular in form and over thirty miles across, which was discovered by the Jesuit missionary De (^len, 250 years ago. It is fed by numerous rivers over a mile wide each at their mouths, and is the source of the far-famed Sague- nay. Here are taken the wonderful ouanAniche or land-locked salmon, which afford such remarkable sport to the angler an^ attract so many American fishermen annually to this northern country. / An elegant new hotel, the ffo^/l Robenml, at Roberval, Lake St. Jean, ac- commodates three hundred guest?./ This hotel has been built on a commandmg site, affording a magnificent view hi the whole expanse of Lake St. John. Almost in front of t«e hotel is the steamlidat wharf, where tourists may embark on the passenger steamers « Mislassini," 'the St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal, is the manager. The popularity of/this hotel during the three seasons it has been open has been such that it has been "Ht^i^i^ecessary to increase its capacity from loo to 300 guests, which has been done b/eonstructing two spacious wings, in one of which is placed a mag- nificent dining ^om, overlooking the lake. The Island/House, on the opposite side of the lake, is capable of accommodat ing one hundred gu^ts, and is under the same management as the Hotel Roberval. It is situated on an islaJid of the Grand Discharge, where this inland sea pours its surplus waters into the mysterious Saguenay, and where the'buananiche are killed in largest numbers in the sumnWr and autumn months, and is reached by a daily steamboat service to and from Roberval. A hotel is now completed at Chambord Junction, Lake St. John, thirteen miles east (/Roberval. At St. Raymond there are several country hotels ; and at Lake St. Joseph 4here is a hotel— Lake View Hpuse— beautifully situated on the shore of that lake. In the villages around Lake St. John a moderate number of visitors will find acommoda- , fibn among the country people. , There is a very comfortable hotel at Lake Edward, where the sportsman will always find good accommodation. The climate of Lake St. John and the intervening country along the railway is strongly recommended by physicians. Its soft, balmy air, due to its being protected from the rough winds of the St. Lawrence, and to the proximity of forests of pine, spruce and cedar, is very beneficial and exhilarating tq invalids'. 'Lake St. John itself is 353 feet above tide water. The intervening country is much higher, St. Raymond being 458 f J0 77 (f ind fleecy io closely le. Lake St. iss, which numerous d Sague- ch afford annually [ean, ac- nmanding Almost passenger excursions is Indians, emen and [ localities land pas- le station. jeen sucli sts, which ed a mag- lat ing one is situated (vaters into hers in the ( and from miles east St. Joseph lake. In icommoda- viU always is strongly ;d from the spruce and is 353 feet being 458 O /^ i , jlrd. fi%ti /'// %M f '■,' . •• > t «v •\: ♦/ ■•-'L 1 J' f feet, Riviferel-Pierre.709. LakeEdJrd i^i2, the SummU 1^04, Kiskisink I.318, and Lake Bouchette 1,073 feet above ti^^. ' ' n^rrih*. the innu It would requirt much mOre space than is now at our disposal to describe the mnu . merable attractbns that. Che city dnd^Alistrict of Quebec possess for tourists of every d When the time has at leng^ arnved that summons him home from his hoUday r he must ,be of peculiar temuer.ment if he does not. declare with a well-known Tm;rican traveller, already quotid in these pages, "that one leaves Quebec with a fceTxii of gratitude. Tin^ is n.t wasted in .ight-seeing here a, it too frequently, is .n U 'thcr quarters. It is an incomparable spot for the lover of a quiet holiday who is .^xious .< leVn something of the country and its hi.to.y. He walks a ground consecrated o history, and he views cond.tions oj life the like of which camiot he found (tutside the walls that seilarate it from the outer world." ,,,,,1 As (hiebec stands unrivalled in the history of her past, so is she unexcelled today in the bea^ity of her presen^. ■ As Longfellow sang of Nuremburg : ■ ' " Quaint old town of toil and traffic, . ' / Quaint old town of art and song. / Memories haunt thy pqinted gables /' Like the rucks that round thee throt^." ^ , ■•/, ■ .■■? 't. / / LADIES GENTS f- ■<^o f v; •^* - SPEC m IB' / '' '1 =>=*^ GO' % • i ■^^H msMM :M'". 1'^ y. 79 Lg Magtein du Louvre, 27 ST. JOHK STREET, OPPOSITE PALACE HILL. LflDlpS' DEPflRTMEl^T- '^QRESf GOODS, DRESS. PATTEITN^ tRIMMINGS, UNDERWEAR, v. BLAC^ SILK^ AND GENTS" FORklSfUNGS^ SPECIALTY: - ,-^-^ * . V KlD GLOVES. i>^.' •\- ' SUnllNG'S, , -..■■. PAN TINGS, ^ • OVERC^A'l'l'^^GS,.; ^ ^^ SCARFS B 'j^\ ^' ■'.'•t uiJDERWEAR, GLOVES,. umbrt:llas, SPECIALTY '. * WATERPROaF COATS r- t:XI'ERIKN(Knjr:AlLOI{S ON THK PRKM^BS. QOTE i fRtUY, Ko. 27 ST. JOBN-STBEET .0 V -■■I T, • . <;r • '■ * '%' p m r 81 Ivmllm, mi %0Mmii 210 Fabrique Street, | ZIZZZZ^ ^=^ Q,TJEBEO. 4 WE HAVE A CHOICE SELECTION OF ::iCANADIAN SO€VKNlR_^__^ ijewellery and Eovelties. '' -■<'"'■ "^r 82 FISHING "«r; TACKI^B v_ or OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. RODS, REELS, LINES, FLIES, Etc., OF ALL STYLES AND QUALITIES, '^ ' / IHUIIIIIMlllllllllllllilllllll ALSO . Guns, . Rifles, . Reooloers, . Ammunition, AND Al.I, KINDS OF SPORTING GOODS and CUTLERY. S.J.SHAW&cd HARDWARE, ^ ST. JOHN STREET, UPPER-TOWN. TELEPHONE 673. SD US-LE-FORT STREET. LOWER-TOWN. TELEPHONE 4A. QUEBEC J. 8;i / J. B. LftLlBERTE, ... .-. ^- m5 St Joseph Street, QUEBEC. 6 a' THE LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF, nil rypi IH CANADA Ladies' and Gents' Furs eal Sacques . ur-lined Ooercoats Fancy Fur Rugs and Robes Artisticalli} Mounted Skins Indian Curiosities, And aeperal other Specialties- how -.'IRooms OF THIS BXTBN8IVB pSTABOHirMKHT. palatial M.- :• T I - i ' ' > ^ I -(|™i3j.^3^j= *sSip.T^ -jfe" 'c ■" f'-tfi '^" i,\'r J -f-it^J^r ■'« 84 (Central gVBBBC, BCySTON, NBV/\VORK AND WHITE MOUNTAIN LINE; f'iVrs between Quebec and Portland, throoKb u«>bec and noxton via Sherbrooke and Lake and Sprln^fleld, wlthodt change. Only line running; Wagner P: the White Alountaln^WJ Memphrein: Tliree Hundred Miles dl^§^ttltul Scenery. Seventy Miles the Shortest Route between Quebec and New York. ^^HE QUEBEC CENTI^L RAILWAY traverses a coutftry full of beautiful V ^ Lake and Mountain Scenery, passing by the Valley of the Chaudi^re, immoitalized ▼ by General ^Arnold's march to Quebec in 1775 ; also passing within a few yard s of the wonderful Asbestos Mines at Theiford and Black Lake., THIS IS THE POPULAR ROUTE for TOURIST and PLEASURE TRAVEL BETWEEN QUEBEC and NEW ENGLAND. Solid Train Service lM>tween Qu«bfc and Boston dally. See Time Table Folders, and be sure and ask for Tickets via the QUEBEC CENTRAL RAILWAY. / TICKET offices: Quebec, opposite St. Louis Hotel-; Montreal, Ulti()n Ticket Office, Wind- so* Hotel ; Boston, VV. Jlaymond, 296 Wushhigton Street ; Boston,' & Maine, ,O0 1,00 4,9 9 4.995 •62,740 NADA. m tip liwtliof^lFilr CHBMIST ^ AND ^ »lRl©eiSTt r ' 4 P^flBRIQUE ST.. QUE3EG. ENGLISH AND FRENCH PERFUMERY, m SUMMER SPECUlTIES «• NcssiT3ul$ Mosquito Oil. ^ MoFPisoij's Toikl Cr?arR FQ[ ctapii wunooiiess oi ttie ^^ ■m , i 'i«-ji. »t ' ' -V* ! i^ ^ iJi. I ' V If I 88 ^ z. prqoet; V> fr. . ■< ■ » zs^ 22: A ESTABLISHED 1850: 165. 167 3t 169 St. /osepfi St., QU£B€ L V^ r' IMPORTER OF DRY GOODS ;-^— — ---^Trrrrr^ AND ^==^=^^="" j: ^ '~\ MANUFACTURER AND EXPORTER OF FURS. ONE OK THE LAKfiEST AND BEST ASSORTEI) STO( KS OF DRY GOODS^ IX THE DOMlNIdN. e / ■ . . / OURISTS-are cordially invited lo \isii our Stares and examine our ^assortment, ol" Unmanufactured and M itMafc tured Furs, Gents' Fiirniiiiings.- etc., etc. AR.GES r .show 'iNooms in the City ,,foi La!«ifb' Mantles and Furs, and a rich collection of the highest novelties cons^lantly displayed, ADIES' and (leiitlemen's FurMV'earing Apparel oi' the latest styles, made on tlie jjrcmises by eK])erit.'nced hands, . Workiiiivrisliip ami Finish lln.snr|»ass«<1. y Gentleman's Ga/nicnls of a GENTS' TAILOjBlNG. descriptions made to order, and- on the shortest notice. .GENTS' OUTFITTING DEPARTMENT. ' Shirts. Collars. Ties. Hosiery,! GloVes, etc.. etc. Dressing Gowns. e ■ __ 1 ^ ^ PHICK8 \M01>ERATE. ' # J 89 H URNDRY \ TOpiTE, ; Faiily frocers and iBine Eercliants, • ^ headquarters: ^5 St. John Street, OUEBEC 'M ON PREMISES 1 ICE CREAM, SODA WATER, WALKER'S PURE CANDY TUK I.KADlNi; IIOUSK IN QUEBEC FOR CAMPING STORES X FlSHlHll, H11ST1R6 ftMllSllUllPM PABST WIILWAUKEE LACER, A SPECIALTY. >F^ PURVEYORS TO T>|E Tourilli Fish and Game Club, The Laurentides Club, Jaoques-Cartier Club, V AND" SEVEN PRIVATE CLUBS. •*!*■■ \ a ^ * nrr-^'-^-T'iiiiitii iii'iTiTi if / . ...9 ■V 't. !? ^.f ^/ A^ •^^ Photographic . • Sdfflices ^ CorpQratiQn ai WBT 'MAlk tTRMT WIMTm,N.Y. 14tl0 , *', ) .**!^ ^ 'j »'!f^/7t / ^ 02 BSTABLISHED 18 42. Importers of Fancy Dry Goods. Latest Novelties received- weekly from Europe- ' DBESS m MIIITIE iliHTS A Specialty for Superior Fit, Style, Work and Finish. ^AIIor(lerse)(8ciitB(l if) oiiB or two days notice, «■ LATEST MODELS . tK , Parisian J^minsTY, , * f I AIM large viirlety In 8tra\^, Chip and Pelt Hats, Newest Shapes, -' ^Cehtlemeh's Clothihg MADE TO OHDiTR. (Style and Fit Guaranteed) in seven hours notice. All Goods Marked in Plaio Figores. ONLY ONE PRICE UPPER TOWN. -•^'- > -^^' fvTfr* 4t? 93 ■'!.■- > '~ "^"^ — - -^-S ^^ ^ 5-fe.;5 ■^■i--d: 'rs^^s^ »==^ ^■E. LAROCHE 5: Co, CberRJsts AKD . . fwDrdggisfs, OPPOS ITE THE POST OFFICE ^ "^^ r^ ONE MINUTE'S WALK FROM HOTEL ^QUE^E^. W ^^s* ■^#* v^* *1f(* ¥^~v^~'vs¥' >?« ■■l,-,£¥ . ■''■'•■( 94 tftOS. D^L/VNY, 1-1, E 4 F- Cliainplaiii Market, QUEBKC. ^ -^ TBLBPHONB No. 392.-^ ^^ City M Ml Syppiji at lowest WITM BEST gmiAMTY Buttep, ESto., £2 to. [OBIiED BEEF, TflUGOES Ai POBK IH BUHBELS, KEGS fi TIEBCES. Camping and Fishing Parties Supplied. O CM lU z o I QL LxJ -J HI I- > r 96 I I OfiALCIfS IH PliOVISIOWS. ^^;- c-- Beef Eggs, - « Hams, - J Bacon. <> "4 Fresh and ;. ■ ' ^ ■ Salt Pork -•- &c. 13 & 14 /VlontGalm /Warket, E: . V ■■'■■ = G ^ -,S.f 7f " -7^^^ '^*^^r^ flh- ^^'^'WW^" 97 M. TIMMONS A SON, STEAM SODA WATER FACTORY SKLXZER, VXOJHY, AcO. "^ Medals, Frizes and DiplSHifas Awarded for Excellence of Quality^ CP •«• !i*.*J.« We Manufacture All Our Beverages Exclusively in the Improved ^d perfected -MACHINES OF- rt/VYWflrRD, tYL^ & CO., s.. M » fts" . *[f»^«( I. ^- ■v-,i*« ■* rt%^i 1 V T*»""5 lift^ "TTf^ 98 44 JVIOUNT/IIX HILL, QUEBEC. (ASBESTOS PIPES.) REPRESENTING AT QUEBEC Louis Koboereb [Established 1800] .... lieims Champagne A. Lalakdk&Cik Sordenua: Superior Clarets, Sauternes Chanson PeeeA Pils {Established 1750) Superior Burgundy lieaune BoovBT-LADriBAY^ ...St. Hilaire-St. Floren* Sparkling Wines L'Union CHAMPBNOI8E. v. . . . Epernav Champagnes A. R. VALDE8PINO Jerez de la Frmtera Sherries and Ports Boui,KHX»rAC.E r cogr^ "•^^"?S^t-James- '^^"^'^ Felix Potin & Cie pa^. Liquors and Cordials, Canned Qooda' Menier p^ Chocolates ••^**"* L.Fontaine „ . Peas, Mushrooms, etc. YBEaTY & CiE . : Clrmmit-Ferrand Macaroni, VermloelU, Pastes , Intercolonia l Railway of Canada. THE ONLY BAILROAD BETWEEN fiuebcc, P.!!., Halifax, N.S., St. John, N.B., and Sydney, Cape Breton. . . ^ The Popular and Fashionable Boute " .^ lor Summer Tourist Travel through the Maritimfl Provinces and along the Lower St. LawrenS^ ^d Ba??deTchaleur8. Through connections by Steamers for Prinoe Edward Island the Magdalene Islands, Newfoundland, St. Pie?re Bermuda and the West Indies. ^ Be sure you include the magnificent River, Lakei Ocean, and Mountain Scenery of the Intercolonial in your Summer Tour. ,^ vT** ^t^ "^"""^^ ""'^ Summer Excursion Tickets to the Summer. Sea Bathina iSs^ll i **r'"''"'°"^^"'" Intercolonial- Railway issued brpTncipVl Rai S wd Steamship Agencies m Canada, and by D. McDonald, 49 Dalhousie St and T D s;pTeJc.,^:i?;.?np^H^f.2r^^ -'-- "^^ ^^ -o^^^^, "^•P"^?^' D. POTTINGER, . Otmral Patiengtr Agent. r.*i * o _. . .. . MONCTON, New Brunswick. •■ 1 - -■ fly V 99 y^ i_^ QVBBBC. S. J- ONE I L. _y CHOICE ASSORTMENT Be^r& Pilot Cloths, ^ Fur& Irish Freize, Elysian Beaver, Meltons and J>laps^ Diagonal Serges.J^ Broad Cilothj s: Trouserings, .Coatings and Suitings h: J. GAI.E ng re, ^takr- in Jftadem and Jlnokni ^mtUhm, 0M Sn^m etfick^f erUna, §{ttU y\rartf ^iuUd y^utf, 0id Sqo^ and SmM JlnHqiMti. . 2151 srasiis ST,. • OIK. tr 1 • a i iV, ■> ITi "-yn. ■rf*' V -* 100. ♦ . --E.-JACOT;--- IMPORTER OF \ and ^qvooIty 9^~--^^^---~- -- - ^ - -; - - ■^---^■■~ J _ . 2o«t3enfr spoons, 251 ST. JOSE.Prt STRE^t, "" •• •• •• •• QUe^bec, Car\ i^ it. JHi^liaiSil, ■^ Grocers, Wine aiid Spirit Dealers, ^OTc' ^nn and QardsTk 2^§o, QVeBCC. (Opposite the RuQsell House,) PlsMmg Briers AJUmiei t@. PORK BUTCHERS, HAM CURERS AND STALLS : 81 Montcalm Market, 94 Cote d'Abraham, f, ■ r '•'■'jf'.»!J4M,|*.«?"''^'; * , ..'IPI fItLllM H. eRiWFOi) &^Cfl., / ^;^' .* - 2'^i'^^'* ^ToRers, * .'; >•' \'' • >'/• QUEBE.C. ', \^i' ikU • IMPQRTERS AND WHOLESALE , Coffee and $pi,ce Aerchants, 624 & 696 CRAIG STREET. - MONTREAL Views of Quebec, its environs, Lake St. John, Saguenay, etc. First Prize, for Views of Cana- dian Scenery. * Amateur Outfits. Pure»t Chemicals for Photogra- phic use, a specialty. All possible assistance given to • ph,oto-amateiirs. Frames of every description. Manufacturer of Collodions, ' Varnish, etc. Enlargements ^nd printing done for Jhc trade. Tblepjjl'ITb 225. "KODAK' Agent for the Eastmap Co., IMPORTER AND OBALBR IN * Photographic Goodi; in. Dalinlpyer's, Antliony's -* and DarlotN Lenses. ' L J. E. UYERNOIS, ^ . Photographic Studro, St- John street, - QUEBEC *'' H ^--' xllt;Ajl,ki'l^k^<'JLiJl.^f IrkUtr ' f -o . . 102 .^\ ,/ WINDSOR ^ HOTEL, ' 0! m ^ Rates: $4.00 to $5. 1THE WINDSOR is delightfully siiualed in the centre of the City, and facingujis most beautiful square. '^ The cuisine of the Hotel, together with the cool, airy rooms* •PAlatial Corridors and Dining Room, hold a world-wide rftpu^ation, and place i I foremo^ among the Palace Hotels of the American Contirtent. ' j\ilcLncLger. 103 6E0^E iOTlei'S LIVERY STABLES 95 to 103 St. mmmi Upper-Town, E. ^' Carriages, "Waggons, Buggies, Etc., Etc., APPLY TO THE AGENT AT / ST. LOUIS HOTEL OFFICE. tfe.»a^^,.a£^a.a^Mia£^...^=^i^ ^te^^^ ^^>.fr^r^^^ 104 ^i. "^axorenc^o -J^all^ TylONTBEAU (l^^4.p^. - LOCATION CENTRAL. • '^ » (Possessing all the modern improve- ■s. ments necessary to make it a first-class }0tel in every respect. ^ PROPRIETOR. ^^^ms^m tftti^aateflitt^ ^ IS g^ ^■^laB^^^^ii^tf^yaa BETWEEN The Siiga«nay Biver, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto and Intermediate Forte. This Hne is composert of the foUowirg First-Class Side-Wheel Steamers, vit.: The " C Ay A DA," Captain Barras, and the •'SAOUENA f,' Captain I.eoourB, in His Sague- iiay route, and the Quebec Liiu* in composed of tb*- QUEltEC, Iron ..CnptainjStlom, MONTREAL, " ' ^"V- Leave Montreal dally the whole season (Sundays excepted) for Quebec, at 7 p.m., calling a Sorel, Three Hivers and Batiscan. ReturninK leave Quebec for Montreal at 5 p.m., arming in Montreal 6.30 am. following morning. Sunday trips between Montreal and Quebec will be inaugurated during the i)leasure season, commencing about 2Cth June, leaving Montreal ana Quebec respectively at 3 p.m. _ , j .^ The Western Line is comiwsed of the following steamer^; leaving Montreal a« undernouxj. commencing on let June to I5tli September, and thereafter on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days, until 30th September : PASSPORT, Composite .. Captain Siiielnir. CORSICAN, '^ ^'^«- ,, SPARTAN,' '■ : Oan-' t. ALGERIAN (Viw), " ^ mttin. UPWARDS. l.«ave Canal Basili, Montreal, dally [Sundays excepte*!!, at 10 a.m., leave Lachine »t 12.30 on arrival of noon train from Montreal ; leiwe Cotean l>an(ling at 0.30 p.m.. 6n arrival of UraiKl Trunk train leaving Montreal at 5 p.m.,\|lling at Alexanaria Bay lliousand Inlands lark, Bound Island. Clavton, Kincston, passing upwards through the beautiful Bay of Quinte, l>eie- ronto Belleville. »rrenion, Brighton, etc., arriving In 'foronto at 7.00 •.m. connecting with ^llwayi for Colilngwoo,!. Lake Superior, betroit. Chicago. Milwaukee, Buffalo and all W-estern •^'"^ DOWNWARDS. Leave Toronto daily (Sundays exceptedl.at 2 p.m.. touchinu iif all i.oits. inoludiiig Clayt"n. Round Islftnd. ThousanA Islands Vark, Alexandria Bay. BrookvTUe. and arriving in Montreal tl... following day at 0.30 p ni , conneollng with the stcamerM "QUEBEC" AND "MONTREAL" tor uuebec arriving next morning at 0..10 a in., leaving at 7.30 for the Sftgumiay Klver. on the mligriKtSUmmeFs " SAOUKNaV - and • C.\NAI>A,' foilr times a week, TueSdays. Wednes- days, Fridays an Kingston an.i Montr.-al about 4 th .Inly leavlnB Ktngstmiat 5.15 Hn. on Mondays, Wednewlays and^iidays, calling at Intermediate jH)ints. arriving at Montreal at 6.30 p.m. , , Thrwiah lichls at Imc r<,l,-», *uii evert Information, may he obtained from »«• varloui L«Mml *„„../Lmi Card the Steamers at the ticket oWcps, and from (Jaaimlr I»lck»on,(lO Yonge St., To?o,lt«;TirF 'Xy ^ ALWAYS ON HAND A First Class Assortnt ol Fancy and Stapln Gooils, SPECIALTIES IN k CRAWFORD. JUNR. MANUFACTURER OF Ginger Ale, Soda Water, Ginger Pop, Oiderine, Brewed Ginger Beer, « AND ALL KINDS OF SYRUPS. »■ * Guaranteed Finest Quality. 2 Carleton Street, - - QUEBEC. ifl^tefc : JlJU jaitL' J., -1,^ tjk^iVi^.-,^ . s^j ° ^;&«- i, ^ A.jil,^s I -t* H"^* -» ^aSr <"•;,??*'; «j»'j"+i,s. i- 109 p. k DEALER IN Tk Sterman-ffillianis Company's PRePAReO PAINTS, — : 4LS0 A FULL LINE : — a PAINTS, COLORS, VARNISHES AND PAINTERY^LIES.' QUEBEC, CAN. ANDREW QRAWrORD, Sen., BOTTLER OF . — { ^ ic. u] % ' lia Palo ile and Pork ..*■ Bottling Vault: Arsenal l-S, office : Co r, P a l ace ilEe^Mi^ -«-; 1,..., 110 FOUNDED 1876. TELEPHONE 240 EDOUARD ROUMILHAC, 17 & 19 St. John Street, Quebec- DEALER IN 5*renoA and Qanadian products, '^ordeauTZ and ^urgund-^ IS^'^QS, ^iquors, grand's, fanned Qoods, Qlive ^il, etc., eio, II WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.; We specially carry a full stock to supply Tourists and Sportsmen on their way in this city. \ i. Clumber. Steam and Hot W^i^y Fitter^ Manufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Wares^ and (Dealer in Stoves and House Furnishing Hardware. . ■ Fabri^Ue Street, - .Quebec. m LEflDIHG STORE IN THE CITY, ii V*i .J^_ 4 «*- J .la < J^ % ^ . i M lU 240 ibec- ncJy, :sm.en ter^ ing SG. St. LawrencG Hall, CACOUNAJ ^ IIS location has long been noted for its natural and enjoyable attrac- The Halls, Drawing-Rooms, Private Parlors, Dining Rooms and Sleeping Apartments are ikrge, light, airy, and arranged singly or m suites for families. j r • . Billiard Room, Bowling Alley, Hair-Dressing Room and Laundry connected with the house. Telegraph. Post Office and News Stand in the house. The table affords all the luxuries found at first-class hotels. Baths, warm or cold, of salt water, direct from the sea, to be had in/ tiie hotel. ' ' . a ^- a Omnibuses and Carriages meet all trams at Cacouna btation, aiyi steamers at River du Loup Wharf. Equestrian.— A proficient teacher for any wishing instruction in equestrianism will be in attendance with several saddle horses for both ladies and gentlemen, also carriages tq order. Music. — An orchestra connected with hotel. , / j Pricfs.— For transient, $2.00 and upwards per day, $ 10.50 and upWards per week, according to location of rooms. Special rates for families by the month or for the season. " a L a ^ ■ VE..Y Liberal Arrangements for clerks, teachers and /Students wishing to spend their summer Jjglidays at the seaside. >DRES8- t v^ SHIPMAN & STOCKING, Quebec, 0,1^ / JOHN ERE N NAN, Manager, "' CACOUNA, P.Q t j-i-iij -i I. lA'i^U %/ r A^ . 7-* 112 L BALLAR Sr ISM ©iii@ « ■ AND MANUFACTURER OF SAUSAGES, ST. vXOHin^T ST. ynJi '^i.. !isi'^to^>.^|^». V ..-■-f-- 118 ^ ^ Thf' ^ossin the lar^etL most com- plete-and luxurious Hotel \in Ontario, has been fiirther enlarged by an addition of 75 -rooms en sunte^ tvith. baths ^ etg.^ etc. passenger ctnd ^baggagS elevator run- ^ning day and night... ^rice^ graaUqie/Z according to location of room, and based on a m'oderate scale. Accommodates ^00 guests. A- NELSON, ' ♦ PROPRIETOR. m, -'!_ ^ 11 111 v- n /,riH- -; .",'"•";«.,,,■ :^- . ; ^-■^'i-.' 114 TELEPHONE 206. yill^r No. 3 ST. JOHN STREET (UPPER TOWN) Watches, m*m \ Diamond m* m Jetoelry, GLOCKS, STERLING SILVER MP PLATED WARE, BRONZES, OPTICAL AND FANG' ^ L^a^re's Opera, Field and -■ , . ' , ■ « , /Marine Glasses for Tourists. y. r© Li ,<>"# A1 'a ■I Labatts Fine J/Ues and Cream Porter, Awarded Gold Medal at Colonial arvd Indian Exhibition, London, Englayidj 1886. . ^ NUINE APPLE CIDER, IN WOQEIrA3SID BOTTLE. ■ ^^r " C.'l O'REGAN, Agent, ^ 56 Palace Street, Quebec. TELEPHONE 696.",-— .--i-^— i^ — ,'-%. m-. r c » ■^ I^B i- "~&. FRUIT • • • •' FRESH FISH ,la»iou ' & Hamlin. Bnrddf, Karn & Co., FiicknrtI, Etc., Etc. FROI-I THE LxiJADINQ M AN¥FA0I URERS, ' '.Sold at Lowest Possible Prices, or on Instalment Plan, AT •■n BF5 Fabrique Street, QUEBEC iiir"Nf\v Music icceivcd weekly from Kiirope and United States Pianos and Organs luntd and repairtd. ^ V 17 IS inliii, 'o., ••' , Ktc. Ian, tatcs 'l^l-yi^aN LtRNAlluNAl, HOl'hL, uiicx(elled in elegance, con- 1 /ertieuce and attrjtctivencss by any other hotel in Americ, contains over. three hundred rooms for guests, which,- with the magniftcenl parlors, public and private dining rooms and re;idiMg rooms, have, during the past winter, been richly decorated and sumptuously furnished. The strUcuVre is enlirely of stone, while ihc rooms throughout are spacipus anJ ^// suUf, with high ceilmgs, pciieci ventilation, gas, electric- light and bells. Elevators run day and ni;^hl. From its extensive piazzas, its iiuif;nilitQit /ajon. undjium many oj the rooms dlectly overlooking: the ne:v Slajji_l\irk, an unequalled vieio oJ the Rapids and Falls may be had. Special care has been takjn to render the cuisine unexcelled. The most experienced and skillful assi*^tanls have been engaged iux every department. Music is furinshed by an unrivalled orchestra. The removal of the tolls by the establishment of the State Reser- vation renders Niagara one of the most inexpensive of summer resor's. ' I^oonts and Hoard rnay be had at $4-00 per day. Special Indlh kments ()f(i.Med to families remaining during a portion of the season. All connnunications to be a>Ures^eii'to ALVA H. ULUCvK, fi«n«««''' *^ 118 OHlf TO Picturesque $un\n\er^ResorJj TSTOI^TH: 0]F (QUEBEC THROLUiH THE Magnificent Scenery of the Lanrentides V*:ti riie Finest Wheit Lands inJCiinaiU are i St Inhn; Territciry, i> KOR HARXICri.A»» SKE F01,DER». , . J. G. SCOTT, Secretary hn S OJ \a «: nR ^ S. - (SKOiMPitN Has Braved H*^ Hospital ^ an^ CoiiS«ltatt«(v Of fke t0 00 and 71 ST, UBSULE STREET, l?OBM.i >K Rjehisb;' strangers la ana resmcuw at tWs city, nf hot! require to undfergo operawws or «««*« mcds* wish to expose IhemscMft to the da^it ^ ,. , ^ „,^ ,... rrJal or to the inconvenience of a hotel or board.ng hou.e, ca, S'cSposaV a private room at D.. G.o...s'. Posp.t.., tJmsuLJE S They are at libfefly to employ ineir own phy diiposed who IV- aiv.iciU Thi. Ho.pua., m »ew ot O-e locia, .a which itjs sit„a«d, .1,,- antee'^to" those who'.are ill. . , , a AH coht4o«8 or infectiotts diseases are strictly refused, o";^S of the Hospital will be specially reserved for the. trea. ment erf female complaints, vr.. clinics and consultations for the. poor every iuc.m^, P ^r other inlbrmation address at the office, during oftice hour. ( V»<»i 11 .30 TO 12.30 o'cMOK A.M. «M •'-,->iH-V j^t m i lili k (By Special Appointment. URjRIErlS TO HER MuMESTV THE QUEEN. S5 & 37 BUADE^T, Upper Town, - CHOICE AHD BXCLtJSlVE DESIGNS IN - Sealskin , Garments Shoulder Gapes, Mantles, Muffs ane Boas, IN ALL FASHIONABLE FURS. Lion, Tiger, Polar and Gnfezly Bears, Fine Hudson Bay Sables and Silver Pox Skins. sTiiNfims AB£ imnm n iNSPUcfT our stoci Branch s 7f * 73 King mt. East, Toronto. f .^.>