. 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. umbling wall and two gaunt gables. The emblem of his faith is ever before the Canadian habitant: In these drives to the famous envi-rons of Quebec are always to be met with, the Parish Church and the wayside cross, and frequently avenerable cure, in his black soutaney Beauport is passed on the way to IMontmorenci, The long-drawn-out village is
. 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. umbling wall and two gaunt gables. The emblem of his faith is ever before the Canadian habitant: In these drives to the famous envi-rons of Quebec are always to be met with, the Parish Church and the wayside cross, and frequently avenerable cure, in his black soutaney Beauport is passed on the way to IMontmorenci, The long-drawn-out village is associated with theillustrious names of Wolfe and Montcalm, for the latter had once his abode here, while the place bore thebrunt of Wolfes siege artillery in the operations preceding the Conquest. Traces are here to be met withalso of the mansions of representative families of the Old Regime. In another direction lies the Huronvillage of Lorette. It is prettily set upon a hill, about ten miles from the citj, while at its base, flowingleisurely, along, is the St. Charles River. The beautiful L,orette Falls are in the immediate miles from Lorette is Lake .St. Charles, a notable resort of sportsmen. A drive of three miles by the. 0( ^■J 5 S Grande Allee and the Cap Rouge Road brings the visitor to Sillery, where a Mission was founded in 1637by the Chevalier who has given his name to the village. This grand seignior, history relates, was an officer of high rank at the Court of Marie de Medicis, but afterwardsrenounced the pomp and vanities of the world to undertake a mis-sion to the Indians. Here the Church maintains the Convent ofJesus-Marie. A little beyond Sillery is Cap Rouge, near by whichJacques Cartier wintered with Roberval in 1541-2. Be3-ond Montmorenci lie the pretty riverside parishes ofLAnge Gardien and Chateau Richer. Beyond these again, abouttwenty miles from Quebec, is the famous pilgrimage village, LaBonne Ste. Anne. The festival day of the sa
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