. 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. oH W WW i. ifT-r^h-JJr- 1^ ■-11 ■ifL first wave of foreign invasion had surgedround the Indian wigwams which lined thenortlieru declivity of the plateau on whichQuebec now stands (between Hope Gate andthe Coteau vSte. Genevieve) ! Of course youare aware this was not Cartiers first visit tothe land of the north ; his keel had. in 1534,furrowed
. 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. oH W WW i. ifT-r^h-JJr- 1^ ■-11 ■ifL first wave of foreign invasion had surgedround the Indian wigwams which lined thenortlieru declivity of the plateau on whichQuebec now stands (between Hope Gate andthe Coteau vSte. Genevieve) ! Of course youare aware this was not Cartiers first visit tothe land of the north ; his keel had. in 1534,furrowed the banks of Newfoundland and itseternal fogs ; in 1541-2, he had wintered afew miles higher than we now are—at CapRouge—west of Quebec. Then there occursin our annals of European settlement, a gapof more 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 farm
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