"Cependant Nos Troupes Estant Allees Le Premier Jour A Sillery, Pour
Recommander Le Succes De Leur Entreprise A L'Archange Saint
Michel, Patron
de ce lieu la, plusieurs eurent des le troisieme jour, le nez, les
oreilles, les genoux et les
Doigts, ou d'autres parties du corps gelees et
le reste du corps couvert de cicatrices." - Relations des Jesuites,
1666, page 6.
[184] This crack regiment had covered itself with glory at the battle of
St. Gothard in 1664, when 80,000 Turks had been cut to pieces by the army
of Count Coligny. - (Histoire de la Mere de l'Incarnation, Casgrain,
p. 425-6.)
[185] "Le vingt-cinq Janvier," says Ferland, "ils etaient sur les glaces a
l'entree du lac Saint Pierre. Le froid etait plus vif, que les jours
precedents; des glacons accumules barraient presque la route qu'ils
suivaient. Les volontaires accoutumes de longue main a rencontrer ces
difficultes savaient les surmonter; ils etaient vetus a la maniere du
pays, et portaient habits, bonnets et chaussures de peaux de betes; aussi
ils pouvaient sans danger braver le froid. Il n'en etait pas ainsi des
soldats francais, encore peu habitues a la severite du climat, et qui
n'etaient pas pourvus de couvertures suffisantes. L'on fut contraint de
reporter aux Trois Rivieres plusieurs d'entre eux dont les uns s'etaient
blesses sur les glaces, et les autres avaient les mains, les bras et les
pieds geles." - (Cours d'Histoire du Canada, vol. ii, p. 467.)
[186] Baron Vincent Saint Castin, was from Oleron, in Bearn. Originally a
Colonel in the King's Guards, he came to Canada in 1665, a Captain in the
Carignan Regiment. He was, in 1680-1, in command of Fort Penobscot in
Maine. He married Matilda, the daughter of Madockawando, Sachem of the
Penobscots, by which tribe he was adopted and elevated to the rank of
Chief. He played a conspicuous part in the wars of that day, signed
treaties with the Governors of New England. Having amassed a property of
300,000 crowns, he retired eventually to France, where he had an estate.
He was succeeded by his son in the Government of Penobscot. His daughters
married advantageously in the colony. We find one of them, Mademoiselle
Brigitte de Saint Castin, amongst the pupils of the Ursuline Nuns at
Quebec, about the beginning of the last century. - "Les Gouverneurs
Generaux du Canada le menagent et ceux de la Nouvelle Angleterre le
craignent," says La Hontan.
[187] Notes on the Environs of Quebec, 1855.
[188] Occupied by Michael Stevenson, Esq.
[189] The temple for Catholic worship, erected at Pointe a Puizeau about
1854, is very picturesquely located; its stained glass windows, its
graceful new spire, frescoed ceilings, add much to its beauty. The Rev'd
Messire George Drolet has succeeded to the Rev. Father Harkin, who had
been in charge ever since the late Abbe Ferland was appointed secretary to
the Archbishop of Quebec and Military Chaplain to the Forces. For some
time in 1877, St. Columba Church was in the spiritual charge of
Monseigneur de Persico.
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