. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . er at themouth of the Kaministiquia River, on Lake Superior, whereFort WilHam now is. Nor was M. de Ramezay backwardin organizing military expeditions against the English settle-ments in the New England States. During the whole ofDe Ramezays Governorship the English and French colo-nies in America were at war, as indeed they almost alwayswere, whether the mother-countries were at peace or not. The Governorship of Claude de Ramezay is said to haveended in 1724, whether owing to his death or retirement weare not told. In
. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . er at themouth of the Kaministiquia River, on Lake Superior, whereFort WilHam now is. Nor was M. de Ramezay backwardin organizing military expeditions against the English settle-ments in the New England States. During the whole ofDe Ramezays Governorship the English and French colo-nies in America were at war, as indeed they almost alwayswere, whether the mother-countries were at peace or not. The Governorship of Claude de Ramezay is said to haveended in 1724, whether owing to his death or retirement weare not told. In 1745, the Chateau passed into the handsof La Compagnie des Indes and remained with them tillSeptember, 1760, when Montreal surrendered to the unitedforces of Amherst, Haviland and Murray. We are not toldwhat use was made of the Chateau from 1724 to associates with the Chateau the name of DeVaudreuil, one celebrated in the annals of La NouvelliFrance but it is not explicit as to date, or indeed any de-tail. The first Marquis de Vaudreuil, after having been. <? f-i<< X X THE CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY, MONTREAL 279 for some years Commandant of Montreal, became Governorof Canada in 1703, and retained that post until he died,respected and regretted in 1725. It is said that when Claude de Ramezay died (no dategiven), his heirs found themselves unable to bear the ex-pense of keeping up so large a residence, and sold it to Z<3 Compagnie des Indes. From 1745 to 1760, it wasthus the headquarters of a great French trading-company,the resort of Indian voyageurs and coureurs de bois^ coming infrom the north and west with their loads of furs, and sellingor bartering them to the agents of the company, by whomthey were shipped to France. This company also held bycharter a monopoly in the purchase and sale of all importsand exports in the Colony. When Canada passed into thepossession of Great Britain, in 1760, the Chateau de Rame-zay became General Amhersts headquarters, and
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