Hamel, In 1843, On The Recent Discovery Of
The Wreck Of The Petite Hermine, On The Ferme Des Anges, At The Mouth
Of The Lairet Stream, Thus Expressed Himself, P. 3:
- "Il ne me fut pas
difficile, en suivant attentivement le texte du second voyage de Jacques
Cartier, tel que
Nous le donne Lescarbot, de prouver, jusqu'a l'evidence,
que ce navigateur Malouin avait reellement passe l'hiver a la riviere St.
Charles, et non a celle qui porte aujourd'hui le nom de Jacques Cartier;
et je crois que depuis ma dissertation, il n'est reste en ce pays aucun
doute sur ce sujet."
[286] "Le lundi, onzieme jour d'octobre, nous arrivasmes au Hable de
Sainte Croix, ou estaient nos navires, et trouvasmes que les maistres et
mariniers qui estaient demeures avaient fait un fort devant lesdits
navires, tout clos de grosses pieces de bois plantees debout, joignant les
unes aux autres, et tout a l'entour garni d'artillerie, et bien en ordre
pour se defendre contre tout le pays." - (Second voyage de Jacques
Cartier, p. 48). Republished by Literary and Historical Society of
Quebec, in 1843. At the foot, we read, "On pense que ce fort a du etre
bati a l'endroit ou la petite Riviere Lairet se decharge dans la Riviere
St. Charles." "The exact spot in the River St. Charles, where Cartier
moored his vessel, is supposed on good authority to have been the site of
the old bridge (a little higher up than the present), called Dorchester
Bridge, where there is a ford at low water, close to the Marine Hospital.
That it was on the east bank, not far from the former residence of Chas.
Smith, Esq., is evident from the river having been frequently crossed by
the natives coming from Stadacona, to visit their French guests."
(Hawkins' Picture of Quebec, p. 47) The Abbe Faillon in his elaborate
work - Histoire de la Colonie Francaise au Canada, 1865 - in some valuable
notes on Jacques Cartier, p. 496, discusses the erroneous views of
Charlevoix and Father Leclerc, and corroborates the accepted belief about
the St. Charles and not the Jacques Cartier River, as being the spot where
the great discoverer wintered in 1535-36.
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