. 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. esting edifices. The presentas is the Seminary Chapel, which, when it fell a prey to the flames, lost most of the fonce were its glory. Modern, too, is theUniversity Charter, for it dates back onlyto 1852, when it took the name of itsdistinguished early founder. Over half adozen colleges and . are affi-liated with Laval, ■which main
. 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. esting edifices. The presentas is the Seminary Chapel, which, when it fell a prey to the flames, lost most of the fonce were its glory. Modern, too, is theUniversity Charter, for it dates back onlyto 1852, when it took the name of itsdistinguished early founder. Over half adozen colleges and . are affi-liated with Laval, ■which maintains fourfaculties—those of Arts, Theology, Lawand Medicine. It has a splendid library,museum, and art gallery, each of whichwill well repay inspection. From thedome of the central building a magnifi-cent view of the St. Charles Aalley andthe River St. Lawrence may be had. On the eastern side of the old MarketSquare stands the Basilica, or RomanCatholic Cathedral of Quebec. It is,perhaps, the most interesting object inthe city, for it occupies the site of theancient Church of Xotre-Dame de laRecouvrance, erected in 163,-^ by Cham-plain, to commemorate the restoration HMllTASl has, at vbuildingsamoiis pai arions times,are modern,ntintrs which. 61
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