. 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. e buildings l)y which they havebeen replaced speak ever impressively of their early associations. The local antiquary has here a peculiarl_\-rich field for his research. Those at all familiar with the history of the place will turn with specialinterest to those relics of a time. One. and, perhaps, the chief of these, is the church cal
. 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. e buildings l)y which they havebeen replaced speak ever impressively of their early associations. The local antiquary has here a peculiarl_\-rich field for his research. Those at all familiar with the history of the place will turn with specialinterest to those relics of a time. One. and, perhaps, the chief of these, is the church calledNotre-Dame dcs Iictoires. built on the site of Champlains .ilulation de Oiiebee, which stands on the market-place of the Lower Town. Another is the Basilica, formerly known as the Cathedral of church, which wasconsecrated by BishopLaval in 1666, was des-troyed by Wolfes batte-ries at the Conquest, butrebuilt thereafter. Otherrelics there are that datefrom the period of theEnglish occupation,which are full of thetraditions of that stirringera. Not a few of thesesuch as the ancient gate--of the city, have jneldedto the necessities of alater civilization, andbeen replaced by modernstructures, happilj- pre- ¥■■ jiiaftssft^
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