The Hill In St. John Suburbs Or Ascent Leading Up From The Valley Of The
St. Charles, Where St. Roch Has Since Been Built To The Table-Land Above,
Was From Time Immemorial Known As COTE D'ABRAHAM, Abraham's Hill.
Why did
it bear that name?
On referring to the Parish Register of Quebec, from 1621 to 1700, one
individual seems to have borne the name of Abraham, and that person is
Abraham Martin, to whom under the appellation of Maitre Abraham,
repeated reference is made both in the Register and the Jesuits' Journal.
Abraham Martin, according to the documents quoted by Col. Beatson, owned
in two separate lots - one of twenty and the other of twelve
arpents - thirty-two arpents of land, covering, as appears by the
subjoined Plan or Diagram copied from his work, a great portion of the
site on which St. John and St. Louis Suburbs have since been erected.
Abraham's property occupied, it would seem, a portion of the area - the
northern section - which, for a long period, also went under the name of
Abraham's Plains. It adjoined other land of the Ursuline Ladies then owned
on Coteau St. Louis, closer to the city, when 1667, [202] it was
purchased by them; at that time, the whole tract, according to Col.
Beatson, went under the general name of Plains of Abraham. Such appear to
be the results of recent researches on this once very obscure question.
THE BATTLE FIELD.
Two highways, lined with country seats, forest trees or cornfields run
parallel, at a distance varying from one to half a mile, leading into
Quebec:
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