[287] Would This River Be The Lairet Or The St. Charles?

We like to give every circumstance calculated to throw light thereon:

Writers seem to agree that Jacques Cartier, wintered in the St. Charles, as Champlain says, in his edition of 1632, on the Jesuits' property - it may, however, have been a few acres to the east or west of the spot generally indicated.

[288] "Le Capitaine fit renforcer le Fort tout a l'entour de gros fosses, larges, et profonds avec porte a pont-levis et renforts de rangs ou pans de bois au contraire des premiers. Et fut ordonne pour le guet de la nuit.... cinquante hommes a quatre quarts, et a chacun changement des dits quarts les trompettes sonnantes; ce qui fut fait selon la dite ordonnance." - Voyage de Jacques Cartier, page 52.

[289] It is evident that the Beauport entrenchments were to be on a vast scale In those days of corvees and forced labor, when it was merely necessary to command de par le roi, it was easy to bring together large bodies of men. "M. de Montcalm arrive a Quebec (from Montreal), commanda tout le monde pour travailler a des retrenchements qui furent traces vers une paroisse nominee Beauport. Comme il pensait que ces ouvrages ne seraient pas en etat avant l'arrivee des vaisseaux anglais, ce qui pourrait etre d'un jour a l'autre, il envoya un ordre a M. de Levis, qui etait a Montreal, de commander, generallement, tous les hommes de ce gouvernement a de descendre a Quebec, et qu'on avait besoin d'un coup de main. Il envoya a cet egard des ordres precis et conformes, dans tontes les paroisses, qui mirent tout le monde en mouvement." (Memoirs sur les affaires du Canada, 1749-1760.) Finally, Vaudreuil decided that Montreal would furnish 1,500 men only for this service.

[290] This bake-house appears to have been somewhere at the foot of Abraham's Hill.

[291] It crossed the St Charles a little higher than the Marine Hospital, exactly at the foot of Crown Street.

[292] A small bridge supported on masonry has since been built on this spot, exactly across the main road, at Brown's mills, Beauport.

[293] The Great River. Such was the name the Lorette Huron Indians pressed Hon. Mr. Panet to take when they elected him their honorary chief.

[294] A famous Chasseur of Lake St. Charles.

[295] Robert Buchanan's fine lines describe well the sudden coming of winter:

"Then, with a gust, Old Winter tumbled shrieking from the hills, His white Hair flowing in the wind."

[296] Emma Duchesnay, wife of Robt. LeMoine, Esq., Ottawa, was the last born there.

[297] Beauport Church, it is said, was built on this Fief du Buisson.

[298] "Une chandelle faite avec la graisse d'un pendu."

[299] Le mot chirurgien - qui etait la profession de Gifart, se presente naturellement, mais l'article manque....Oh! le C, si c'etait un R? plus de doute l'affaire serait claire.

[300] NOTE. - In a parliamentary Document of 1852, it is stated to have been conceded on 15th January, 1634.

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