. In old Quebec and other sketches. - andtheir descendants, shall occupy an honouredplace in the national edifice. From this paper politics are rigidly ex-cluded ; and without entering their domainone may remark that anxious care and patientattention are due from every inhabitant of ourland to all those acts of our Legislatures no IN OLD QUKBEC ; which bear upon our civil, rehgious, moraland educational institutions and projects—inshort, all acts relating to the social, civil, andreligious prosperity, of what is manifestlydestined to become a erreat VITHE LURE OF THE WEST. He who firs
. In old Quebec and other sketches. - andtheir descendants, shall occupy an honouredplace in the national edifice. From this paper politics are rigidly ex-cluded ; and without entering their domainone may remark that anxious care and patientattention are due from every inhabitant of ourland to all those acts of our Legislatures no IN OLD QUKBEC ; which bear upon our civil, rehgious, moraland educational institutions and projects—inshort, all acts relating to the social, civil, andreligious prosperity, of what is manifestlydestined to become a erreat VITHE LURE OF THE WEST. He who first said, The times chauge, andwe change with them, may have supposedthat even then one order of things followedanother in quick succession. But still, in histime, the years were indeed * slow-footed,and the same is true in his country to-day ; norcould he have had any idea, even the mostremote, of the marvellous rapidity with whichchanges take place in these days of steam andelectricit}^ and in a world which was thenunknown—the discovery of which was destinedto mark one of the most important epochs inthe worlds history. Perhaps no more startlingillustration of this progress can be found any-where than in our Canadian West, where thetransformations which have taken place in,,say, the last twenty-five or thirty years are,in their own way, much more marvellous thanthe wonders produced by the Jinns of Aladdin; 92 IN OLD QUEBEC ; and which can be fully appreciated by onlythose brave and daring pioneers who, a gene-ration or so ago, ventured into the then
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