. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. red and thirty acres. Handsome churches are everywhere. Theyare located along the busiest thoroughfares, in all the by-ways and high-ways, and on the mountain slopes. They serve as perpetual remindersthat Montreal was founded upon religious enthusiasm. Mark Twain oncesaid it was the only city he ever visited where he could not throw abrick-bat without hitting a church window. The Catholic faith was the M S( m IETY Ol \ guiding the first I an colony on this sr,il—a colony that grew .ind prospered, becoming rich and obedient. The cession
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. red and thirty acres. Handsome churches are everywhere. Theyare located along the busiest thoroughfares, in all the by-ways and high-ways, and on the mountain slopes. They serve as perpetual remindersthat Montreal was founded upon religious enthusiasm. Mark Twain oncesaid it was the only city he ever visited where he could not throw abrick-bat without hitting a church window. The Catholic faith was the M S( m IETY Ol \ guiding the first I an colony on this sr,il—a colony that grew .ind prospered, becoming rich and obedient. The cessions of land tochurch l>> France were ted by England at the conquest ; and the value ol these lands was enormously increased l>y the openii tlement of the country with English-speaking people. E\the dontreal that the Catholic Church does not own ha- been pur- ch ised from it at <»n«- time or anoth It was a heroic company that pitched its tent on I in 1643. The account of Jacques Cartiers arrival in 15351 and his reception by the. tf&mMM U riKK kK( KIVKI) IIV THK I : Indian potentate of an undiscovered realm, is fascinating in the; but it does not equal in thrilling inter*miracle and illusion through which the foundation of the preMontreal was laid a hundred years afterward this Indian town was built in the ton- rele, I trtified with palisades, and rain, whi ttled chars •id their comparative civilization. He was conductthrough the quaint , and 1 irned that the name of the place was Hochelaga, H al 1 to the summit of the beautiful mountain, THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 9 which he called Mount Royal, in honor of the king. But long before aneffort was made to found a convent in the wilderness of Canada, this won-derful Indian city had disappeared. Cartier returned to Europe, and fullseventy years passed before Champlain made his voyage up the St. Law-rence, finding a bitter war raging between the Indian tribes, but no aged Indians conducted him to the top of
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