Old Quebec

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Author

Bryan, Claude Glennon, 1876-

Title

Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France

Credits

E-text prepared by David T. Jones and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Canada ( www.pgdpcanada.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/toronto)

Language

English

LoC Class

F1001: North America local history: Canada

Subject

Québec (Province) -- History

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eBook-No.

30367

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30367

Release Date

October 30, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MAJOR GENERAL JAMES WOLFE — OLD QUEBEC — THE FORTRESS OF NEW FRANCE — GILBERT PARKER — CLAUDE G. BRYAN — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS — THE MACMILLAN COMPANY — CONTENTS — LIST OF PLATES — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — MAPS
2. 2.NOTE
3. 3.PRELUDE — OLD QUEBEC
4. 4.CHAPTER I — EARLY VOYAGES — JACQUES CARTIER — MANOIR DE JACQUES CARTIER À LIMOULON — ARRIVAL OF JACQUES CARTIER AT QUEBEC, 1535 — FRANCOIS XAVIER DE LAVAL, FIRST BISHOP OF QUEBEC — CAP ROUGE
5. 5.CHAPTER II — THE ERA OF CHAMPLAIN — CHAMPLAIN — MONTMORENCY FALLS — BONNE STE. ANNE (OLD CHURCH)
6. 6.CHAPTER III — THE HEROIC AGE OF NEW FRANCE — CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU — MARIE DE L'INCARNATION — URSULINE NUNS OF QUEBEC (SALLE D'ÉTUDE, NOVICIAT — JESUITS COLLEGE AND CHURCH — CHÂTEAU ST. LOUIS, 1694 — THE URSULINES' CONVENT
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — "AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM" — MONUMENT TO THE FIRST CANADIAN MISSIONARY — BRÉBEUF — LALEMENT
8. 8.CHAPTER V — ROYAL GOVERNMENT — COLBERT
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — THE NOBLESSE AND THE PEOPLE — OLD BISHOP'S PALACE (AT THE TOP OF MOUNTAIN HILL) — NEW PALACE GATE — INTENDANT'S PALACE
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — FRONTENAC AND LA SALLE — FRONTENAC — OLD ST. LOUIS GATE — ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — FIRE, MASSACRE, AND SIEGE — SIR WILLIAM PHIPPS — PLAN OF FORT ST. LOUIS, 1683 — THE CITADEL TO-DAY (FROM DUFFERIN TERRACE) — NOTRE DAME DE LA VICTOIRE
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY — THE CITADEL IN WINTER
13. 13.CHAPTER X — BORDER WARFARE — THE EARL OF CHATHAM from the collection in the possession of Lord Bridport
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — THE BEGINNING OF THE END — LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL, BART. — BIENVILLE (Governor of Louisiana, 1732) — DE BOUGAINVILLE (General under Montcalm, 1759) — RUINS OF CHÂTEAU BIGOT — LE CHIEN D'OR — Plan of the CITY OF QUEBEC 1759 — MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ISAAC BARRE (Paymaster of Wolfe's Forces) — SIR HUGH PALLISER, BART. (Raised first English flag over Quebec, 1759)
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — LIFE UNDER THE ANCIEN RÉGIME — THE CITY OF QUEBEC IN 1759 — BARON GRANT (Whose family represents the Barony of Longueil, the only existing French Canadian Barony of the old régime ) — BARONESS DE LONGUEIL (Of the sole remaining Barony of the old régime ) — UPPER TOWN MARKET TO-DAY — NEW ST. JOHN'S GATE — PETIT CHAMPLAIN STREET TO-DAY — OLD PRESCOTT GATE — A CARRIOLE — VILLAGE OF BEAUPORT — THE BASILICA — JESUITS' BARRACKS — MODERN CALÈCHES — QUEBEC (FROM LÉVI)
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — DURING THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR — DE LÉVIS — GOVERNOR OF NEWFOUNDLAND, 1759
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — "HERE DIED WOLFE VICTORIOUS" — A PLAN OF THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE — ENTRANCE TO THE CITADEL TO-DAY — GENERAL THE MARQUIS DE MONTCALM — HOPE GATE — ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES SAUNDERS (Under Wolfe before Quebec) — THE MANOR-HOUSE AT BEAUPORT, MONTCALM'S HEADQUARTERS — GENERAL SIR GEOFFREY AMHERST To whom Montreal surrendered 1760. — GENERAL HOSPITAL — CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (Piloted Wolfe's Army up the Harbour of Quebec) — ADMIRAL EARL ST. VINCENT from a portrait by Hoppner .
18. 18.CHAPTER XV — MURRAY AND DE LÉVIS — GENERAL GAGE 1st Military Governor of Montreal — NEW KENT GATE — THE HON. ROBERT MONCKTON-MAJOR GENERAL Sometime Governor of New York under Wolfe at Quebec 1759. — CHURCH OF THE RÉCOLLETS AND LA GRANDE PLACE — OLD FRENCH HOUSE, ST. JOHN STREET — GENERAL SIR A. P. IRVING 2 nd Governor of Canada 1766. — MANOR HOUSE, SILLERY
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI — THE FIRST YEARS OF BRITISH RULE — GENERAL TOWNSHEND afterwards 1 st Marquess of Townshend — A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF MONTREAL IN CANADA, 1760
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII — THE FIFTH SIEGE — GENERAL SIR JAMES HENRY CRAIG, K.C.B. Governor General of Canada 1807-1811. — GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY (Fell at Quebec 1775) — SIR JOHN COPE SHERBROOKE Governor General of Canada 1816-1818. — CAPE DIAMOND (Près-de-Ville, where Montgomery fell)
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII — SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROGRESS — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (One of the four American Commissioners to Canada in 1776) — CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON (One of the four American Commissioners to Canada in 1776) — THE FOURTH DUKE OF RICHMOND. Governor General of Canada 1818-1819. — SAMUEL CHASE (One of the four American Commissioners to Canada in 1776) — BREAKNECK STEPS TO-DAY — ADMIRAL VISCOUNT NELSON — LORD DALHOUSIE Governor General of Canada 1820-1828. — MAP OF CANADA--UPPER AND LOWER — OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSE, QUEBEC — HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF KENT, K.B. — ST. LAWRENCE RIVER FROM THE CITADEL — PERCÉE ROCK — HON. WILLIAM OSGOODE (First Chief Justice of Upper Canada) — NEW ST. LOUIS GATE — OLD MARKET SQUARE, UPPER TOWN — FRONTENAC TERRACE TO-DAY
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX — THE STORY OF THE GREAT TRADING COMPANIES — GENERAL LORD AYLMER. Born in 1775. Governor General of Canada. 1830-1831—1831-1835 — MR. SAMUEL HEARNE (Explorer of the Hudson's Bay Company and Chief Factor at Prince of Wales Fort, Hudson's Bay) — THE TERRITORY OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, 1670 to 1870. — PRINCE OF WALES'S FORT, HUDSON'S BAY, 1777 — PRINCE RUPERT — THE EARL OF DURHAM Governor General of Canada May-Oct. 1838. — SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (Celebrated North-West explorer) — SIR JOHN COLBORNE, (afterwards Lord Seaton) Governor General of Canada 1838-1841. — SIMON M'TAVISH (Founder of the North-West Company in 1783) — EARL OF SELKIRK (Founder of Selkirk Settlement, 1820)]
23. 23.CHAPTER XX — THE NEW CENTURY — FERRY-BOAT ON THE ST. LAWRENCE — LORD SYDENHAM Governor General of Canada 1839-1841. — SIR GORDON DRUMMOND (Lieut.-Governor of Upper Canada, December 1813 to April 1815) — MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ISAAC BROCK, K. B. (Administrator of Upper Canada, 1812) — SIR CHARLES BAGOT. Governor General of Canada 1842-1843. — DE SALABERRY (1778-1829) — A BEGGAR OF CÔTE BEAUPRÉ — ST. LOUIS STREET, PLACE D'ARMES, AND NEW COURT HOUSE — GENERAL EARL CATHCART Governor General of Canada 1846-1847.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI — THE MODERN PERIOD — CITY HALL, QUEBEC — LIEUT.-COLONEL JOHN BY, R. E. (Founder of Bytown, now Ottawa) — SIR PEREGRINE MAITLAND (Lieut.-Governor, Upper Canada, Aug. 1818 to Nov. 1828; also Administrator as Governor for Canada in 1820 — TRAPPISTS AT MISTASSINI — THE HON. LOUIS JOSEPH PAPINEAU — THE EARL OF ELGIN, Governor-General of Canada 1847-1854. — ENGLISH CATHEDRAL — LORD LISGAR. Governor General of Canada 1868-1872. — THE MARQUIS OF LORNE (DUKE OF ARGYLL) — SIR GEORGE CARTIER — THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN Governor General of Canada 1872-1878. — SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD — SIR WILFRID LAURIER — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.APPENDIX I — GOVERNORS OF CANADA
26. 26.APPENDIX II — LEADERS AND PREMIERS AFTER THE UNION OF 1841
27. 27.APPENDIX III — LISTE DES GOUVERNEMENTS DE LA PROVINCE DE QUEBEC DEPUIS L'ÉTABLISSEMENT DE LA CONFÉDÉRATION 1867
28. 28.INDEX

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