. 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. ll spoiled for it ! Bread and milk, berries and grainfoods, endless quantities of fish and game, wild herbage from thewoods,—the children of Saguenay are well nourished. Wherethey have no churches, the missionary priest brings them thealtar. The habilant there must feel a contempt for the will tell you seriously that people are nev
. 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. ll spoiled for it ! Bread and milk, berries and grainfoods, endless quantities of fish and game, wild herbage from thewoods,—the children of Saguenay are well nourished. Wherethey have no churches, the missionary priest brings them thealtar. The habilant there must feel a contempt for the will tell you seriously that people are never ill at Ha ! Ha !Bay. They only die of old age. Summer lingers tangled among the hills long after St. Lawrenceresorts are foresaken. A people thus constituted, inhabitating a region where nature seems to have exhausted her power inproducing scenery of savage grandeur on the most magnificent outlines, might be expected to have traditionsand legends in keeping with their character and surroundings. And so they have. The whole coast is richin folk-lore, natural to people cut off from communication with the rest of the world for more than half theyear, and whose history has been a record of savage warfare, a constant struggle with the elements of. •CaP^L7F^n\FMT^ ■ 98 nature in their most uncompromising aspects, and whose occupation coniljines the pursuits of the hunter,the fisherman, the sailor, tlie lumberman, the miner and the farmer. The lives and labors of Catholicmissionary have tinged many of these legends and traditions with a religious and, occasionally, asuperstitious character. But all possess the touching charm of simple child like faith, and illustrate often inthe most striking manner the patient endurance of men who gave their lives for the good of others, or laidthem down with heroic devotion in defence of their little homes and for the land they loved,— Riiiiged tuirse of dauntless soulsFree, wild and beautiful.* A country and a people so condition
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