. 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. 61. of the colony by Britain. Within its walls were interred the remains of Laval, Frontenac, andothers of Quebecs most notable historic figures. To the lover of art it has special attractions,for it possesses many rare and notable paintings, some of which were brought for safe-keeping toQuebec while France was passing through the horrors of t
. 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. 61. of the colony by Britain. Within its walls were interred the remains of Laval, Frontenac, andothers of Quebecs most notable historic figures. To the lover of art it has special attractions,for it possesses many rare and notable paintings, some of which were brought for safe-keeping toQuebec while France was passing through the horrors of the these treasures will be found the Crucifixion ( the Christ of theCathedral), by Vandyke, the Ecstacy of St. Paul, by Carlo Maratti,with other paintings of inestimable value. Not far from the Basilica is theCardinals Palace, the official residence of His Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop of Quebec ; and close by, also, is the site of the once famousJesuits College, recently demolished. In Garden street is the far-famed Ursuline Convent, its beautiful gar-dens, some seven acres in extent, charmingly .setting off the historicbuildings they enclose. The convent, which dates from 1686, thoughfounded fifty years earlier, owes its origin
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