Famous Firesides of French Canada

There is a well-founded legend that the old chimney attached thereto was built by Champlain in his trading post of logs. It is of solid masonry, and is sixty years older than th...

On the descent, a pause on a platform gives the opportunity of admiring "_Le Gros Bourdon_," or great bell, and one of the largest in the world. It weighs twenty-four thousand,...

It was indeed a sorry day for the settlement when the inhabitants, on the 16th of August, 1624, saw the white sails of Champlain's vessel disappear behind what is now Point Levi...

"At length it was September, with its lustrous skies and pleasant harvest scenes. The city was destroyed, but it was not taken. Would not the early autumn, so quickly followed b...

In 1880 the seventh Baron claimed royal recognition from the English Crown of his title to the old French Barony, which Queen Victoria was graciously pleased to recognize. The d...

"Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale--and whispering with white lips, 'The foe! They come, they come!'"

Between the years eighteen thirty-seven and forty, when Canada was torn by internal rebellion, the Earl of Elgin, who was then Governor-General, drove in hot haste to the Châtea...

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