. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. he American army How the story intwines itself,through two fateful centuries, round theseseveral names ! Nor does the human interestin these actors on the stage of the AncientCapital end with the Conquest. Though Que-bec passes now under the peaceful rule ofBritain, interest does not altogether cease inthe rulers of the colony. Th
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. he American army How the story intwines itself,through two fateful centuries, round theseseveral names ! Nor does the human interestin these actors on the stage of the AncientCapital end with the Conquest. Though Que-bec passes now under the peaceful rule ofBritain, interest does not altogether cease inthe rulers of the colony. The city has knownmany of these rulers and owes much to not a TIME-BALL, FROM THE PRINCES BASTION. 54 few of them, from the era of Dorchester and Haldiniand to that of Dufleriii, Lome, lyansdowiie and Confederation, Onebec has also had its successive local governors, wlio have kept alive the tradi-tions of the place and made it the scene of occasional vState pageantry and an old-time hospitality. THK CITADf;L, GATES AND FORTIFICATIONS. Quebec is still a fortress : and, though not now garrisoned by the soldiery of Britain, from thebastions of the Citadel there still floats the red cross banner, the symbol of her power. Perhaps the most. JACyUES CARTIER LANl
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