The Ship Was From Honfleur, And Was Commanded
By Samuel De Champlain.
He was the Aeneas of a destined people, and in her
womb lay the embryo life of Canada." (Pioneers of France in the New
World, p. 296.)
[7] Champlain calls Cape Diamond, Mont du Gas (Guast), from the family
name of De Monts. He gives the name of Cape Diamond to Pointe a Puiseaux.
See map of Quebec (1613.)
CHAPTER III.
[8] Six French Governors died and were buried in Quebec - Samuel de
Champlain, Count de Frontenac, M. de Mesy, De Callieres, Marquis de la
Jonquiere, and Marquis de Vaudreuil. Two English Governors - Lieut. Gen.
Hope and the Duke of Richmond.
[9] Up to 1617, and later, Cbamplain's residence was in the Lower Town,
and stood nearly on the site of the Church of Notre-Dames des Victoires.
[10] John London MacAdam, the inventor of macadamized roads, was born in
Ayr, Scotland, on the 21st September, 1756, and died at Moffat on the 26th
November, 1836. The Parliament of Great Britain voted L2,000 to this
benefactor of the human race. Macadamized roads, like several other useful
inventions, met with many obstacles in Quebec. Some of the loudest to
denounce this innovation were the carriage builders, who augured that good
roads, by decreasing the bills for repairs to carriages, would ruin their
industry, that their "usefulness would be gone."
[11] Jesuit's Journal, page 89. Vide Appendix - Verbo, Horses.
[12] The Journal des Jesuites, published by Geo. Desbarats in 1874,
under the supervision of the learned Abbes Laverdiere and Casgrain, from
the copy in the Archives of the Quebec Seminary, though fragmentary,
throws valuable light on many points in Canadian History. We clip the
entry for 1st January, 1646, as summarized in the Glimpses of the
(Ursuline) Monastery, respecting the custom of New Year's visits and
presents; this entry will further introduce us to some of the denizens of
note in Quebec in 1646: - We meet with the first seigneur of Beauport,
Surgeon Robert Giffard, who had settled there in 1634; the Royal Engineer
and Surveyor, Jean Bourdon; J. Bpte. Couillard, the ancestor of the Quebec
Couillards, of late years connected by marriage with the Quebec DeLerys;
Mdlle. de Repentigny, a high-born French lady; the founder of the
Ursuline Monastery, the benevolent Madame de la Peltrie; the devoted
Sillery missionary, Father de Quen; without forgetting our old Scotch
friend, Pilot Abraham Martin, who, from the nature of the gift bestowed,
it seems, could relish his glass, and evidently was not then what we now
call a "Neal Dow man."
January, 1st, 1646. - The soldiers went to salute the Governor with their
guns; the inhabitants presented their compliments in a body. He was
beforehand with us, and came here at seven o'clock to wish us a 'Happy New
Year,' addressing each of the Fathers one after another. I returned his
visit after Mass. (Another time we must be beforehand with him.) M.
Giffard also came to see us.
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