Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present

Quebec, with the limitations set forth elsewhere, under the English regime, was governed by Justices of the Peace, who sat in special sessions, under authority of Acts of the Pr...

What a field here for investigation? Has not each thoroughfare its distinctive feature--its saintly, heathenish, courtly, national, heroic, perhaps burlesque, name? Its peculiar...

[170] His career furnishes a curious instance of the lavish expenditure which ambitious sovereigns formerly required on such grand occasions. Let us quote his biographer's own w...

[8] Six French Governors died and were buried in Quebec--Samuel de Champlain, Count de Frontenac, M. de Mesy, De Callières, Marquis de la Jonquière, and Marquis de Vaudreuil. Tw...

Quebec, founded by Samuel de Champlain, in 1608, has certainly much to recommend her, by her monuments, her historical memories and her scenery, to the traveller--the scholar--t...

On emerging from St. Louis Gate, several handsome terraces and cut stone dwellings are noticeable. We may mention Hon. Frs. Langelier's, Mr. Shehyn's, and the Hamel Terrace--qui...

Let us recall one year, in the revolving cycle of time--one day above all days--for dwellers in Champlain's eyry keep pre-eminently sacred that auspicious 3rd of July, 1608, whe...

[147] SAUNDERS SIMPSON.--He was Prevost Marshal in Wolfe's army of Louisbourg, Quebec and Montreal, and cousin of my father's. He resided in that house, the nearest to St. Louis...

THE ENVIRONS OF QUEBEC. SILLERY OUR COUNTRY SEATS THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM THE BATTLE-FIELD BATTLE-FIELD PARK THE DUKE OF KENT'S LODGE--MONTMORENCI L'ASYLE CHAMPÊTRE MARCHMONT--Ane...

Louis Hébert, the First Resident--The First Street--The First Horse-- Marquis de Tracy--St. Louis Street--The Quebec Gazette--William Brown-- Samuel Neilson--Dr. Wilkie--Lawyers...

[6] Parkman thus heralds the advent of this foreign arrival from sea:--"A lonely ship sailed up the St. Lawrence. The white whales floundering in the Bay of Tadousac, and the wi...

[5] Before the era of the Allan line, sailing vessels used to land their living cargoes of forlorn emigrants in the Lower Town, sometimes after a passage of fourteen weeks.