Category: History - Other

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861

The situation of Malbaie.--The physical features of Malbaie.--Jacques Cartier at Malbaie.--Champlain at Malbaie.--The first seigneur of Malbaie.--A new policy for settling Canada.--The Sieur de Comporté, seigneur of Malbaie, sentenced to death in France.--His career in Canada....

Chapters

21. CHAPTER VIII.--The account of fishing at Murray Bay in 1830 is

Malcolm Fraser was a young man of about twenty-six when he kept his diary of Wolfe's campaign against Quebec. It shows that already he had considerable powers of observation and...

15. CHAPTER VII

Life at Murray Bay after Captain Nairne's death.--Letters from Europe.--Death of Malcolm Fraser.--Death of Colonel Nairne's widow and children.--His grandson John Nairne, seigne...

14. CHAPTER VI

His Education in Scotland.--His winning character.--He enters the army.--Malcolm Fraser's counsels to a young soldier.--Thomas Nairne's life at Gibraltar.--His desire to retire...

13. CHAPTER V

Nairne's careful education of his children.--His son John enters the army.--Nairne's counsels to his son.--John Nairne goes to India.--His death.--Nairne's declining years.--His...

12. CHAPTER IV

Nairne's work among the French Canadians.--He becomes Major of the Royal Highland Emigrants.--Arnold's march through the wilderness to Quebec.--Quebec during the Siege, 1775-76....

11. CHAPTER III

Colonel Nairne's portrait.--His letters.--The first Scottish settlers at Malbaie.--Nairne's finance.--His tasks.--The curé's work.--The Scottish settlers and their French wives....

9. CHAPTER I

The situation of Malbaie.--The physical features of Malbaie.--Jacques Cartier at Malbaie.--Champlain at Malbaie.--The first seigneur of Malbaie.--A new policy for settling Canad...

16. CHAPTER VIII

Pleasure seeking at Murray Bay.--A fisherman's experience in 1830.--New visitors.--Fishing in a mountain lake.--Camp life.--The Upper Murray.--Canoeing.--Running the rapids.--Wa...

10. CHAPTER II

Pitt's use of the Highlanders in the Seven Years' War.--The origin of Fraser's Highlanders.--The career of Lord Lovat.--Lovat's son Simon Fraser and other Frasers at Quebec.--Ma...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Pleasure seeking at Murray Bay.--A fisherman's experience in 1830.--New visitors.--Fishing in a mountain lake.--Camp life.--The Upper Murray.--Canoeing.--Running the rapids.--Wa...

20. CHAPTER VII.--M. Léon Gérin has given an exhaustive analysis of

the life of the habitant in "L'Habitant de Saint Justin," published in the Proc. and Trans, of the Royal Society of Canada for 1898 (Ottawa, 1898). M. J.-E. Roy's "Histoire de l...

19. CHAPTER IV.--Much original material relating to the Siege of

Quebec in 1775-76 has been published by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. To be specially noted are the two volumes of documents on the "Blockade of Quebec in 1775-...

17. CHAPTER I.--For Jacques Cartier see his Voyages of 1535-36, in

French (Ed. D'Avezac) Paris, 1863, translated into English (Ed. Baxter), New York, 1906. For Champlain see his Oeuvres (Ed. Laverdière) Quebec, 1870. Bourdon's Act of Faith and...

7. CHAPTER VII

Life at Murray Bay after Captain Nairne's death.--Letters from Europe.--Death of Malcolm Fraser.--Death of Colonel Nairne's widow and children.--His grandson John Nairne, seigne...

6. CHAPTER VI

His education in Scotland.--His winning character.--He enters the army.--Malcolm Fraser's counsels to a young soldier.--Thomas Nairne's life at Gibraltar.--His desire to retire...

4. CHAPTER IV

Nairne's work among the French Canadians.--He becomes Major of the Royal Highland Emigrants.--Arnold's march through the wilderness to Quebec.--Quebec during the Siege, 1775-76....

5. CHAPTER V

Nairne's careful education of his children.--His son John enters the army.--Nairne's counsels to his son.--John Nairne goes to India.--His death.--Nairne's declining years.--His...

2. CHAPTER II

Pitt's use of Highlanders in the Seven Years' War.--The origin of Fraser's Highlanders.--The career of Lord Lovat.--Lovat's son Simon Fraser and other Frasers at Quebec.--Malcol...

3. CHAPTER III

Colonel Nairne's portrait.--His letters.--The first Scottish settlers at Malbaie.--Nairne's finance.--His tasks.--The curé's work.--The Scottish settlers and their French wives....

1. CHAPTER I

The situation of Malbaie.--The physical features of Malbaie.--Jacques Cartier at Malbaie.--Champlain at Malbaie.--The first seigneur of Malbaie.--A new policy for settling Canad...

18. CHAPTER II.--The "Dictionary of National Biography" contains

good articles on Lord Lovat, General Murray, &c., with references to authorities. Alexander Mackenzie's "History of the Frasers of Lovat" (Inverness, 1896) is the most recent de...