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قراءة كتاب Famous Firesides of French Canada
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FAMOUS FIRESIDES
OF
FRENCH CANADA
BY
Mary Wilson Alloway.
ILLUSTRATED.
MONTREAL:
PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL & SON
1899
Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by Mary Wilson Alloway, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL, G.C.M.G., LL.D., &c.,
CHANCELLOR OF McGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL,
AND
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA IN LONDON,
THIS VOLUME
IS
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
Respectfully Dedicated
BY
THE AUTHOR.
The principal authorities consulted in the preparation of this work were Le Moyne, Kingsford, Rattray, Garneau, Parkman, Hawkins and Bouchette.
Acknowledgments are also due to the kind interest evinced and encouragement given by the Hon. Judge Baby, President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal.
CONTENTS.
Château de Ramezay 19
Heroes of the Past 30
Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire 51
Le Séminaire 56
Cathedrals and Cloisters 58
Massacre of Lachine 82
Château de Vaudreuil 95
Battle of the Plains 103
Canada under English Rule 125
American Invasion 144
The Continental Army in Canada 155
Fur Kings 192
Interesting Sites 199
Famous Names 203
Echoes from the Past 212
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page.
Fireplace Frontispiece.
Château Kitchen 24
Château de Ramezay 26
Montgomery Salon 28
Chapel of Notre Dame de la Victoire 52
Le Séminaire 56
Home of La Salle 84
St. Amable St. 98
Fort Chambly 146
Château Fortier 156
Franklin Vaults 170
PREFACE.
In offering this little volume to the kind consideration of Canadian and American readers, it is the earnest wish of the Author that it may commend itself to the interest of both, as the early histories of Canada and the United States are so closely connected that they may be considered identical.
We have tried to recall the days when, by these firesides, we re rocked the cradles of those who helped to make Canadian history, and to render more familiar the names and deeds of the great men, French, English and American, upon whose valour and wisdom such mighty issues depended.
The recital is, we trust, wholly impartial and without prejudice.
It is to be hoped that the union of sentiment which the close of this century sees between the two great Anglo-Saxon peoples may cast a veil of forgetfulness over the strife of the one preceding it; and be a herald of that reign of