Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . called. Inthe Lower Town, the quaintest part of Quebec, arenarrow, irregular streets, picturesque old houses,and a market-place, with a medi£e\al air remindingone of out-of-the-way corners of Brittany andNormandy. Sault-au-Matelot Street and Sous-leCap Street are typical byways of this quarter. Many are the buildings in Quebec which call for notice, but the merest reference can only be made to them here. The Chateau Frontenac occupies the site of the old French chateau of St. Louis erected by Champlain in 1620. Th
Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . called. Inthe Lower Town, the quaintest part of Quebec, arenarrow, irregular streets, picturesque old houses,and a market-place, with a medi£e\al air remindingone of out-of-the-way corners of Brittany andNormandy. Sault-au-Matelot Street and Sous-leCap Street are typical byways of this quarter. Many are the buildings in Quebec which call for notice, but the merest reference can only be made to them here. The Chateau Frontenac occupies the site of the old French chateau of St. Louis erected by Champlain in 1620. Then there are the fine Roman Catholic Cathedral ; the Hotel Dieu Convent and Hospital, dating from 1654, in which is preserved the skull of Brebeuf, the intrepid Jesuit missionary done to death by the Iroquois ; the Ursuline Convent, founded in 1639 ; and the more modern English Cathedral and Houses of Parliament. The Plains of Rbraham. The scene of the great battle in which GeneralWolfe defeated the French under Montcalm is onthe top of the cliffs to the westward. The Plains. 46 CAA/ADA. of Abraham at that time stretched right up to thewalls of the town, and were well covered with take their name from one Abraham Martin,a river pilot of the seventeenth century, who ownedthem. On the spot where the British general fell inthe moment of victory stands a monument bearingthe inscription: Here died Wolfe victorious,September 13th, 1759. At the foot of the heights, a little over a milefurther up the river, is Wolfes Cove. Here onthat memorable September night the British regi-ments were silently landed for the daring climbup the zigzag path to the top, whereon the Frencharmy lay encamped. Near the Cove Field, on the plains, now usedby golfers, is the reviewing ground. Here thereis ample room for troops to manoeuvre. The illus-tration on the opposite page shows a body of blue-jackets marching down St. Louis Street after amornings exercise on the ground. Montreal. Important
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