. Greatest wonders of the world . eared on the precipices of Fort St. Louis the whiteflag and his great white cross nearly a couple of centuriesbefore the beginnings of the Metropolis of the West, madehis beginnings at his little seigniory round Fort Remy, onthe Island of Montreal. The son of a wealthy and powerful burgher of Rouen, hehad been brought up to become a Jesuit. La Salle waswell fitted for an ecclesiastic, a prince of the Church, aRichelieu, but not for a Jesuit, whose effacement of self isthe keystone of the order. To be one step, one stone inthe mighty pyramid of the Order of Jes
. Greatest wonders of the world . eared on the precipices of Fort St. Louis the whiteflag and his great white cross nearly a couple of centuriesbefore the beginnings of the Metropolis of the West, madehis beginnings at his little seigniory round Fort Remy, onthe Island of Montreal. The son of a wealthy and powerful burgher of Rouen, hehad been brought up to become a Jesuit. La Salle waswell fitted for an ecclesiastic, a prince of the Church, aRichelieu, but not for a Jesuit, whose effacement of self isthe keystone of the order. To be one step, one stone inthe mighty pyramid of the Order of Jesus was not for him,a man of mighty individuality like Columbus or Cromwell,and accordingly his piety, asceticism, vast ambition, andsuperhuman courage were lost to the Church and gained tothe State, So says Parkman. His seigniory and fort—probably the Fort Remy ofwhich a contemporary plan has come down to us—werejust where the St. Lawrence begins to widen into Lake , abreast of the famous Rapids of Lachine, shot by so. THE LACHINE RAPIDS 229 many tourists with blanched cheeks every summer. I saytourists, for, as I have said before, there is nothing yourtrue Canadian loves so much as the ofF-chance of beingdrov/ned in a cataract or splifficated on a toboggan is part of the national education, like the Bora Bora, orteeth-drawing, of the Australian aborigines. The veryname Lachine breathes a memory of La Salle, for it was sochristened in scorn by his detractors—the way by which LaSalle thinks he is going to get to China. A palisade con-taining, at any rate, the house of La Salle, a stone mill stillstanding, and a stone barrack and ammunition house, nowfalling into most picturesque and pitfallish decay—such isFort Remy, founded nearly two centuries and a quarterago, when England was just beginning to feel the invigorat-ing effects of a return to the blessings of Stuart rule. Thiswas in 1667, but La Salle was not destined to remain herelong. In two years tim
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