. 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. MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE BRAVES OF 1760, STK). FoVE ROAD. 51. by a market, of Champlains Abitation dc Quebec, with itsmoat and walled enclosure, within which the little Frenchcolony, including trader, soldier and black robe, shieldeditself from the pitiless assaults of the ever-prowling overhead once frowned the old fortress of Qu
. 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. MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE BRAVES OF 1760, STK). FoVE ROAD. 51. by a market, of Champlains Abitation dc Quebec, with itsmoat and walled enclosure, within which the little Frenchcolony, including trader, soldier and black robe, shieldeditself from the pitiless assaults of the ever-prowling overhead once frowned the old fortress of Quebec,whence France in the Xew World was ruled for thespace of two centuries. Within and adjoining the fortress,Ironi the earliest years, sprang up numerous semina-ries, convents and hospitals, which Quebec owed to the zealand devotion of successive governors, bishops, and greatmissionaries of the Church. As one views old sites,what memories gather round the place, and how apt is theimagination to repeople the scene ! Chief among the figureswhich the memory summons must be those of the heroicJesuits, the spiritual fathers of the colony. With the eccle-siastical atmosphere still permeating the cit}-, it is evennow to recall them. There are the gorgeously arrayedofficers of the army, and h
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