Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
Chapter 11
[1] Mr. and Mrs. Dickens had lunched in the Citadel on that May 27th, 1842, the admired guests of the officers of the Grenadier Guards stationed there.
[2] _Lettres sur l'Amérique_: X. Marmier. Paris, 1869.
[3] The Highlanders--78th, 79th, and 93rd.
[4] _The New York Ledger._
[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.