. 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. oes, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, styled by the French, the Mohawks at one time nearly overpowered by the Hurons, succeeded in the end by strategy andrepeated massacres in dispersing their enemies, the Hurons, who never recovered their prestige. Their final overthrow dates back to the great Indian massacres of 1648 and 16
. 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. oes, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, styled by the French, the Mohawks at one time nearly overpowered by the Hurons, succeeded in the end by strategy andrepeated massacres in dispersing their enemies, the Hurons, who never recovered their prestige. Their final overthrow dates back to the great Indian massacres of 1648 and 1649, at the Huron townsor missions on the shores of Lake Simcoe, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Ignace, Ste. Marie, St. Jean. Theinmates who escaped the general slaughter sought safety in flight. A portion estal) themselves inManitoulin Island : others, and they fared the worst, sought protection on the south shore of LakeErie, from the Erie tribe and were incorporated with them. A Jesuit Father escorted three or fourhundred of these terror stricken people to Quebec, on the 25th July, 1650, and located them on land atthe Island of Orleans, where a picket fort was erected for their protection, at a cove called on that accountIJ Anse dii Fort. 76. > H __ma;3eat^ ( Even under the protection of this little fort, the tomahawk and scalping knife of their implacable foesfound them out. vSix of their number were butchered and eighty-five carried into captivity by the Iroquois,on the 20th May, 1656. They fled to Quebec in June following, and obtained leave to camp underthe big guns of Fort St. Louis, where they rested in comparative peace, until 1666, when they removedto Beauport, where thej- were allowed to squat, for one year, on landsowned by the Jesuits. In 1667, they left and pitched their wigwams four and a half mileswest of Quebec, at the mission of Notre-Dame de Foye, now Ste. Foye. On the 20th December, 1673, restless and alarmed, the helpless sonsof the forest sought the
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