4. Mere Marie Marthe Desroches de Saint-Francois-Xavier, a young
woman of 28 years, who succumbed to small-pox on the 16th August,
1755.
5. Mere de l'Enfant-Jesus, who expired on the 12th May, 1756.
6. Mere de Saint-Monique, who died in July, 1756, the victim of
her devotion in ministering to the decimated crew of the ship
"Leopard," sunk in the port by order of Government to arrest the
spread of the pestilential disease which had raged on the passage.
Mr. Faucher closes his able report with a suggestion that a monument
ought to be raised, to commemorate the labours and devotion of the
Jesuits, on the denuded area on which stood their venerable College.
Relation de ce qui s'est passe lors des Fouilles faites par ordre du
Gouvernement dans une partie des fondations du COLLEGE DES JESUITES
de Quebec, precedee de certaines observations par FAUCHER DE SAINT
MAURICE. Quebec. C. Darveau - 1879.
[62] Pierre DuCalvet was sent under warrant of Gen. Haldimand, a prisoner
on 29th September, 1780, on board the "Canceaux." He was then removed on
14th November, 1780, to the Military prison in Quebec, where he remained
until the 13th December, 1781, when the Provost Martial, Miles Prentice
placed him at the Franciscan convent, under the charge of Father DeBerey,
where he remained until the 2nd May, 1784. He followed Governor Haldimand
who had sailed in the "Atalante" on the 26th November, 1784, to England,
to sue him in an English Court of Justice for illegal arrest, and was lost
at sea in the "Shelburne" on his return to Canada.
[63] The following inscription was on the coffin plate:
(1) Count Frontenac - "Cy gyt le Haut et Puissant Seigneur, Louis de
Buade, Comte de Frontenac, Gouverneur-General de la Nouvelle-France.
Mort a Quebec, le 28 novembre 1698." - (Hist. of Canada, Smith,
Vol. 1, p. 133.)
(2) Gov de Callieres. - "Cy gyst Haut et Puissant Seigneur, Hector de
Callieres, Chevalier de Saint-Louis, Gouverneur et Lieutenant-
General de la Nouvelle-France, decede le 26 mai 1703." - (Ibid.,
p. 148.)
(3) Gov. de Vaudreuil. - "Cy gist Haut et Puissant Seigneur, Messire
Philippe Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, Grande Croix de l'Ordre
Militaire de Saint-Louis, Gouverneur et Lieutenant-General de toute
la Nouvelle-France decede le dixieme octobre 1725." - (Ibid.,
p. 190.)
(4) M. de la Jonquiere - "Cy repose le corps de Messire Jacques-Pierre de
Taffanel, Marquis de la Jonquiere, Baron de Castlenau, Seigneur de
Hardars-magnas et autres lieux, Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal et
Militaire de Saint-Louis, Chef d'Escadre des Armees Navales,
Gouverneur et Lieutenant-General poor le Roy en tout la Nouvelle-
France, terres et passes de la Louisiane. Decede a Quebec, le 17 mai
1752, a six heures-et-demie du soir, age de 67 ans." - (Ibid.,
p. 222.)
[64] Faillon, Vol. III, p. 372.
[65] The laying of the corner stone of this lofty building whose
proportions must have seemed colossal to our fathers, was done with grand
masonic honors on the 14th August, 1805, by the Hon. Thos. Dunn, President
of the Province of Lower Canada, and administrator of the Government,
assisted by William Holmes, Esq., M.D., Deputy Grand Master of Ancient and
Accepted Free-Masons. Several coins of that reign were deposited under the
stone. Amongst the members of the craft, we find the names of Joseph
Bouchette, Claude Denechaud, Joseph Plante, Angus Shaw, Thomas Place,
David Monro, the architect's name is Edward Cannon, grand-father of
Messrs. Ed. J. Lawrence and James Cannon, our esteemed fellow-citizens;
Rev. Dr. Sparks delivered a splendid oration, to be found in the Quebec
Mercury, of 17th August, 1805.
Hujusce Fori Municipalis, Anglice UNION HALL, ex Senates provincialis
consulto erecti,
THOMAS DUNN Vir Honorabilis Provinciae Proetectus Politiaeque
Administrator. Adstantibus et Curatioribus Selectis.
Hon. John Young Praese, Hon. John Antoine Panet Comitiae
Provincialis Rogatore.
Jonathan Sewell Armigero Cognitore Regio,
John Painter et John Blackwood, Armigeris, Pacis
Curatoribus;
Joseph Bouchette Armigero Mensorum Principali,
John Caldwell, Claude Denechaud, John Coltman, John Taylor, Joseph
Plante, Angus Shaw, Thomas Place et David Monro,
de Quebec Armigeris,
Nec non et multis Latomorum hujus Urbis, quorum William
Holmes Armiger,
M D fuit summus Magister Deputatus, adjuvantibus, hunc primum Lapidem
posuit, dei XIV. Mensis Sextilis, Anno Salutis MDCCCV.
Nummi quoque Regis Regnantis
GEORGE III.
Suppositi sunt,
Videlicet.
Nummus Aureus Anglice Guinea, aureum etiam Dimidium ejus et Triens;
Nummus argenteus solidos quinque Anglicos valans, solidus dimidium solidi,
et quarta pars; nummus Aeranus denarios duos Anglicos valens; denarius
obolus; et quadrans.
EDWARD CANNON, Architectus.
[66] A MONUMENT OF THE OLDEN TIME. - Inserted in the wall enclosing the lot
of ground between Buade street and the Basilica, about midway from the
front entrance of the church, is to be seen a slab of very fine marble,
bearing the following inscription. It is the only one in the plate: -
"In memory
of
Mary,
wife of Thomas Ainslie, Esq.,
Collector of His Majesty's Customs of Quebec,
who died March 14th, 1767,
aged 25 years.
If Virtues Charms had pow'r to save
Her faithful votaries, from the grave;
With Beauty's ev'ry form supply'd
The lovely AINSLIE ne'er had died."
[67] John Hale who died in 1842, had six sons: 1st, Edward, who died at
Quebec in May, 1874; 2nd, Jeffery Hale; 3rd, Miss Hale; 4th, Bernard Hale,
now in England; 5th, Richard Hale, late 81st; 6th, William, late Capt.
52nd, who died at Ste. Anne, district of Three Rivers, about 1845; 7th,
Mrs. Hotham; 8th, George Hale; 9th, Miss Elizabeth Harriet Hale, who in
1838 married Commander John Orlebar, R.N.
[68] We are indebted to Professor H. LaRue, M.D., for the following notes
relative to an address delivered by him at a dinner given by the Notaries
Public in 1872:
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