Picturesque Quebec, By James Macpherson Le Moine










































































































































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These axe-men were pioneers of an advancing host, - advancing, it is true,
with feeble and uncertain progress: priests, soldiers - Page 27
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"These Axe-Men Were Pioneers Of An Advancing Host, - Advancing, It Is True, With Feeble And Uncertain Progress:

Priests, soldiers, peasants, feudal scutcheons, royal insignia.

Not the Middle Age, but engendered of it by the stronger life of modern centralization; sharply stamped with parental likeness, heir to parental weakness and parental force.

"A few weeks passed, and a pile of wooden buildings rose on the brink of the St. Lawrence, on or near the site of the market-place of the Lower Town of Quebec. The pencil of Champlain, always regardless of proportion and perspective, has preserved its semblance. A strong wooden wall, surmounted by a gallery loop-holed for musketry, enclosed three buildings, containing quarters for himself and his men, together with a court-yard, from one side of which rose a tall dove-cot, like a belfry. A moat surrounded the whole, and two or three small cannon were planted on salient platforms towards the river. There was a large magazine near at hand, and a part of the adjacent ground was laid out as a garden." (Pioneers of France in the New World, p. 301.)

CHIEF DONNACONA.

On the 14th of September, 1535, under the head "Shipping News, Port of Quebec," history might jot down some startling items of marine intelligence; the arrival from sea of three armed vessels - the "Grande Hermine," the "Petite Hermine," and the "Emerillon." One would imagine their entrance in port must have awakened as much curiosity among the startled denizens of Stadacona - the Hurons of 1535 - as did the anchoring in our harbour, in August, 1861, of Capt.

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