. 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. ia the Macs swarm as thickly as motes of are made to defer to Scotch ideas there, as rigorouslyas you turn to the left in driving. On the other hand, theProvince of Quebec, almost to the west shore of the Sague-nay, is solidly French. The river marries these races, theFrench stock saving its language, as it always does, for thatis 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. ia the Macs swarm as thickly as motes of are made to defer to Scotch ideas there, as rigorouslyas you turn to the left in driving. On the other hand, theProvince of Quebec, almost to the west shore of the Sague-nay, is solidly French. The river marries these races, theFrench stock saving its language, as it always does, for thatis the prevailing tongue along the .Saguenny. It is veryqueer to find Jean Battiste Mactavish and Archibald Pilote, Marie McElfresh and Georgine Mackenzie gabbling French together in ignorance of any suchancient vernacular as the Gaelic. In Chicoutimi you wander down terraces and across a valley, past sliops where little yellow spinning-wheels are set out for sale, and see a cascade coming from the hills. Voiture drivers with their boardvehicles spin about, ready to carry you to the falls. Chicoutimi is built on the true Canadian plan for avillage—a single street following the windings of the river, beginning with the church and ending with. lUt VICTORY. 107 mills. On the opposite side of the river, in laps of the heights are nestled farms and suggestions ofvillages. Here are lives shut awaj^ from the world in a delicious trance of being, which makes the touristregret that he has ever been exposed to the fever of progress. I know well the simple routine of thatexistence. There is labor without care or haste. There are neighborly visits, saint daj celebrations, oldcustoms religiously kept, loving respect to elders and superiors, courtship and marriage natural and beautifulas the story of Fanchon. Where sandy Scotch hair gets the better of soft, dark, French eyes, there will be alittle sharp bargaining, but not much. The habitant is close fisted according to American standa
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