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OLD QUEBEC

The Fortress of New France

by

GILBERT PARKER and CLAUDE G. BRYAN

With Illustrations







[Illustration: _Major General James Wolfe
from a scarce contemporary print engraved by R. Houston_]



New York
The Macmillan Company
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
1903

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1903,
by The Macmillan Company.

Set up, electrotyped, and published September, 1903. Reprinted
November, 1903.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.





CONTENTS
                                                         PAGE

   NOTE                                                  xvii

   PRELUDE                                                xix


   CHAPTER I

   EARLY VOYAGES                                            1


   CHAPTER II

   THE ERA OF CHAMPLAIN                                    19


   CHAPTER III

   THE HEROIC AGE OF NEW FRANCE                            44


   CHAPTER IV

   "AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM"                                66


   CHAPTER V

   ROYAL GOVERNMENT                                        85


   CHAPTER VI

   THE NOBLESSE AND THE PEOPLE                             95


   CHAPTER VII

   FRONTENAC AND LA SALLE                                 110


   CHAPTER VIII

   FIRE, MASSACRE, AND SIEGE                              134


   CHAPTER IX

   THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY                               159


   CHAPTER X

   BORDER WARFARE                                         175


   CHAPTER XI

   THE BEGINNING OF THE END                               187


   CHAPTER XII

   LIFE UNDER THE _ANCIEN REGIME_                         218


   CHAPTER XIII

   DURING THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR                            246


   CHAPTER XIV

   "HERE DIED WOLFE VICTORIOUS"                           268


   CHAPTER XV

   MURRAY AND DE LEVIS                                    299


   CHAPTER XVI

   THE FIRST YEARS OF BRITISH RULE                        325


   CHAPTER XVII

   THE FIFTH SIEGE                                        342


   CHAPTER XVIII

   SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROGRESS                          364


   CHAPTER XIX

   THE STORY OF THE GREAT TRADING COMPANIES               394


   CHAPTER XX

   THE NEW CENTURY                                        422


   CHAPTER XXI

   THE MODERN PERIOD                                      443


   APPENDICES                                             473


   INDEX                                                  479




LIST OF PLATES

   Major-General James Wolfe                   _Frontispiece_

                                                    FACE PAGE

   Francois-Xavier de Laval                                16

   Cardinal de Richelieu                                   48

   The Earl of Chatham                                    187

   General the Marquis Montcalm                           271

   General Sir Jeffrey Amherst                            282

   Admiral Earl St. Vincent                               294

   General Gage                                           301

   The Hon. Robert Monckton                               307

   [1]General Sir A. P. Irving                            317

   General Townshend                                      327

   Sir James Henry Craig                                  342

   Sir John Cope Sherbrooke                               355

   The Fourth Duke of Richmond                            368

   Admiral Viscount Nelson                                374

   Lord Dalhousie                                         376

   General Lord Aylmer                                    395

   The Earl of Durham                                     407

   Sir John Colborne                                      417

   Lord Sydenham                                          424

   Sir Charles Bagot                                      434

   General Earl Cathcart                                  443

   The Earl of Elgin                                      452

   Lord Lisgar                                            458

   The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava                        466

[Footnote 1: Inscription on plate for 2nd Governor of Canada
1766, _read_ Lieutenant-Governor of