. 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. arative 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
. 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. arative 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 leafy shadesand green fields of Ancient years later, in 1697, alluredby the hopes of more abundant game,they packed up their household goodsand settled on the elevated plateau,closeby the foaming rapids of vSt. Am-broise, now known as Indian or Jeun<Lorcllf. From the date of the Lorettesettlement, in 1697, down to the year ofthe capitidalion of Quebec, 1759, thehistory of the tribe offers but few start-ling incidents; an annual bear, beaver, orcariboo hunt, or the departure or returnof a war party with gory scalps—English A STREET IN THE VILLAGE OF STE. ANNE DE BEAUPRE. FflOM PHnTO AY R£V. J, 78 probably, from the border warfare—as the tribe had a wholesome dread of meddling with Iroquois their allegiance to France, they readily enlisted in its wars against Britain. We find them, trying theirhands as fiisciirs on the wounded British, at Beauport flats, on .-^ist July, 1759 ; at the bloody defeat of Murray,on 28th April, 1760 ; at Ste. Foye, where Indian barbarity, on the dead and wounded w-as When the banner of .St. George waived, later on, over the subjugated Lorette red skins ; the familiesof the Deer, of the Tortoise, of the Beaver and of the Wolf, sent their coniingent of painted and plumedwarriors to assist Burgoyue in his inglorious campaign, in 1776, for which ser\Mces medals, scarlet cloth
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