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Dorchester Bridge built.

Dorchester, Lord.

Dosquet, Bishop,
  resides at Samos;
  notice of.

Drill Shed.

DuCalvet, Pierre, imprisoned in Recollet Church - Page 204
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Dorchester Bridge Built.

Dorchester, Lord.

Dosquet, Bishop, resides at Samos; notice of.

Drill Shed.

DuCalvet, Pierre, imprisoned in Recollet Church; notice of.

DuCreux, cited.

Duelling, punishment of, under French rule.

Dufferin, Earl of, plans for improving Quebec; lays corner stone of Dufferin Terrace; at Spencer Wood.

Dufferin Terrace, length and height above river; laying corner stone of; inaugurated; comprises former site of Fort St. Louis.

DuGas, accompanies DeCourcelles against Indians.

Dunn, Hon. Thomas, administrator.

DuPeron, Father Francois, death of.

Durham, Earl of, notice of; arrival of.

Durham Terrace, erected by Earl of Durham; enlarged; transferred to Province of Quebec; extended; winter view from; promenade upon.

DuQuen, Father, discovers Lake St. John.

Elevator, description of the.

Elgin, Earl of, at Spencer Wood.

Emerillon, L', one of Cartier's ships.

"Emily Montague, the History of," a novel; extracts from.

Epitaphs: - Dr. Wilkie; Hon. Jonathan Sewell; Frontenac; DeCallieres; Vaudreuil; La Jonquiere; Thomas Ainslie; Robert Christie; Father Masse; Montcalm; Wolfe; Lieut. Baines; proposed to Montcalm.

Esplanade, described.

Estebe, royal store-keeper at Quebec; punishment of.

Etchemin river, called Riviere Bruyante; falls of.

Exchange, Merchants', established.

Executions; at Buttes a Nepveu; at Quebec; La Corriveau.

Exportation of cattle to Europe.

Fabre, Hector, description of a Canadian winter.

Faillon, Abbe, cited.

Famine in Quebec in 1757.

Faucher de St. Maurice, cited.

Fenelon, Abbe de, trial of.

Ferland, Abbe, cited.

Feudal ceremony of fealty and homage; form of.

Fiefs, several in Quebec; de la Trinite; Sault-au-Matelot.

Fires, in Lower Town; in St. Roch suburbs.

Fireworks in honour of Prince William Henry.

Fisher, Dr. John Charlton, Charles Dickens his guest; compiler of Hawkins' "Picture of Quebec".

Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, his long walk on snowshoes; entertained by Lord Dorchester.

Flag, American, historical notice of.

Flowers, wild.

Foi et hommage, how rendered.

Fort St. Louis, where first erected; removal of; disappears after the conquest; armament of, when surrendered by Champlain; described by Parkman; when begun. See Chateau St. Louis.

Fort William Henry. See Sorel.

Fox-hunting in Canada.

France, condition of, in 1760.

Franciscan Friars. See Recollets.

Franklin, Benjamin, appointed Commissioner to Canada; said to have printed prospectus of Quebec Gazette; Deputy Postmaster-General for the British Colonies.

Fraser, Captain Malcolm, gives the alarm before the American assault on Quebec.

Frechette, L. H., notice of; account of dinner given to.

French who remained in Quebec in 1629.

French refugees of Oxford, Mass.

French empire in America; victories preceding conquest of Canada.

Friponne, La, Bigot's warehouse.

Frontenac, Governor, where interred; his heart sent to his widow; epitaph.

Galt, John, father of Sir A. T. Galt, notice of; cited; founder of several cities.

Gas Company's wharf, a public promenade in 1750.

Garneau, F. X, cited.

Gates of Quebec, formerly closed at gun-fire; Chain; Dalhousie; Hope; Kent; Palace; Prescott; St. John's; St. Louis.

Gazette, the Quebec, founded; prospectus printed by Franklin; first number described; centenary number; extinction of; successive editors; relict of first press used by.

General Hospital, founded; Arnold carried to erection of.

George, James, suggests Harbour improvements.

Giffard, first seigneur of Beauport; first habitant; taken prisoner by the English.

Gobert, Francois, remains of General Montgomery laid in his house.

Golf Club.

Gomin road, origin of name.

Gosford wooden railway.

Governors buried in Quebec; list of.

Grand Allee; only road to Sillery.

Grande Hermine, La, Cartier's flag-ship.

Graving Dock at Levi, first stone laid; dimensions of.

"Great Eastern" steamship, at Quebec.

Hairdresser, fashionable, in the last century.

Haldimand Castle, corner stone laid; used as a Normal School; improperly styled the Old Chateau; incident during its construction; first grand reception held in; remains of Duke of Richmond laid in state in; described by Weld; repaired; wing erected; most ancient portion; transferred to Province of Quebec.

Haldimand, Governor, departs for England; residence at Montmorency.

Hale, Major John.

Harbor Works, suggested by James George; by Hon. U. J. Tessier. See Princess Louise Embankment, and Graving Dock.

Hawkins' Picture of Quebec, cited; by whom written.

Head, Sir Edmund, at Spencer Wood; his son drowned.

Hebert, Louis, first resident in Upper Town.

Heights of Abraham. See Plains of Abraham.

Henry, Judge, account of Arnold's assault on Quebec; imprisoned in Recollet Convent; account of plunder of Cramahe's residence.

Heriot, his description of Sillery; Deputy Postmaster-General.

Hincks, Sir Francis, at Thornhill.

Hochelaga, by whom inhabited.

Holland, - , and Miss Nevill; his duel.

Holland Tree.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, cited.

Hope, Lieut.-Governor, buried in Quebec.

Horses, first arrivals of.

Hospital, the General, founded.

Hospitalieres Nuns, or Nuns of Hotel Dieu; at Sillery; removal to Quebec.

Hotel Dieu, le crucifix outrage preserved in; owns Fief de la Misericorde; at Montreal, founded.

Howells, W. D., promenade on Durham Terrace; description of Dog Lane.

Howells, W. C., historical notice of American flag.

Hurons, inhabited Stadacona; their fort at Quebec; defeated by Iroquois; dispersion of; elect honorary chiefs; their Chief Tahourenche described; former numbers of; divided into four families; at the battle of Chateauguay; their address to Lieut.-Gov. Caron.

Ice-shove, at Quebec in 1874.

Ile aux Coudres, proposed to fortify.

Incarnation, Mother of the.

"Inconstant," H.M.S., carries off Wolfe's statue; address of Quebec ladies to officers of; reply of officers.

Indians, their fort at Quebec; Expedition of DeCourcelles against; Their customs, dress, etc., in 1730; allies of the French; the part they took in battles; serve under English; receive presents from Government.

Intendant, nature of the office; first named; first to come to Canada. See Begon, Bigot, DeMeules, Robert, Talon.

Intendant's Palace, situation of; destroyed; by whom built; history of; description; occupied by Arnold's soldiers; ruins of; originally a brewery.

Invasion of Canada by Americans.

Iroquois, murder of Jesuits by; incessant incursions of; carry off two Frenchmen; dispute with; capture Fathers Poncet and Bressani; plan the capture of Nuns at Sillery; defeat the Hurons; nations composing; derivation of name.

Irving, Washington, cited.

Island of Orleans, occupied by Americans; Hurons remove to; Hurons massacred at; name changed.

Jacques Cartier Ward.

Jail, the old, built; inscription over door of.

Jeffery, his description of Quebec society before the conquest.

Jesuits, their residence burnt; their chapels; murdered by Iroquois; aided by Rene de Rohault; receive grant of land; names of; captured by Indians; their mission at Sillery; their house at Sillery, probably oldest in Canada; their missions destroyed by Iroquois; martyrs.

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