H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and heir
apparent of the British Crown, was in this country in 1860, and laid the
corner-stone of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa. H.R.H. Prince Alfred,
Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, was here in 1861, H.R.H.
Prince Leopold in May, 1880. H.E.H. Prince de Joinville, son of Louis
Philippe, King of France, was in Canada the same year as Prince Alfred.
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, cousin of Napoleon III., Emperor of France,
also in 1861. H.R.H. Prince Arthur, third son of the Queen, in 1869.
H.R.H. the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, in 1871. H.R.H. Dom Pedro, Emperor
of Brazil, in 1876 (Centennial year); and Her Royal Highness the Princess
Louise and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh (his second visit), in 1878. It
will thus be seen that Queen Victoria's father, uncle and five of her
children have been in Canada."
[113] Opened by him in 1831.
[114] "Travels through North America during the years 1825-26," By Carl
Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach.
[115] Prescott Gate levelled in 1871.
[116] These steps went into Prescott Gate.
[117] The R. C. Bishop's Palace, on whose site the present brick
structure, Parliament House, was since erected.
[118] Bleak House, on the St. Louis Heights, was, until 1871, the quarters
of the Colonel of Engineers.
[119] The Abbe de Fenelon was the half-brother of the illustrious
Archbishop of Cambray, the author of "Telemachus." He was tried by
Frontenac and the Superior Council for having, at the preceding Easter,
preached at Montreal a violent sermon against the corvees (enforced
labor) to build up Fort Frontenac, &c. He refused to acknowledge the
competency of the tribunal to try him, appeared before it with his hat on,
&c. Frontenac had him committed for contempt. Altogether it was a curious
squabble, the decision of which was ultimately left to the French King. -
(Parkman's Frontenac, p. 37, M. Faillon, La Colonie Francaise, Vol.
III, pp. 515, 517.)
[120] Montcalm, de Vaudreuil, de Longueuil, de Bougainville, LaCorne, de
Beaujeu, Tache, de Lery, de St. Ours and others constituted this party of
honourable men.
[121] MEMOIRES sur les affaires du Canada, 1749-60.
[122] Servants, lackeys and nobodies were named store-keepers, "leur
ignorance et leur bassesse ne font point un obstacle," say the
Memoires, 1749-60.
[123] "He (deCallieres), says Parkman, laid before the King a plan, which
had, at least, the recommendation of boldness and cheapness. This was to
conquer New York with the forces already in Canada, aided only by two
ships of war. The blow, he argued, should be struck at once, and the
English taken by surprise.
