. 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. ore than half a century. No trace, nordescendants on Canadian soil, of JacquesCartiers adventurous comrades. The wheelof time revolves ; on a summer day, (3rd Juh,160S), the venerated founder of Quebec—Samuel de Champlain—equally famous as an explorer, a dis-coverer a geographer, a dauntless leader, and what to us, I think, immeasurabh- superi
. 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. ore than half a century. No trace, nordescendants on Canadian soil, of JacquesCartiers adventurous comrades. The wheelof time revolves ; on a summer day, (3rd Juh,160S), the venerated founder of Quebec—Samuel de Champlain—equally famous as an explorer, a dis-coverer a geographer, a dauntless leader, and what to us, I think, immeasurabh- superior, a God-fearing,Christian Gentleman—with his hardj- little Band of Norman artificers, soldiers and farmers, amidst theoak and maple groves of the lower town, laid the corner stone of the Abitation or residence, .sopleasantly, so graphically described by your illustrious countrymen, Parkman and Howells. Ladies and gentlemen, mine must be a brief discourse ; if, instead of pointing out to 5^ou the his-torical spots, now brought under your notice in the course of our excursion, it were my lot to address,as a Canadian annalist, such an appreciative audience as I see here, what glowing pictures of soldier-like ^- ^=— 7J)uf \»i7^%fi:,. CITADKL TERRACK, FKOAt TIIK GRAND nATTERY.
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