ALL that is beautiful, all that is picturesque of Cap Rouge and its approaches will soon be laid under the despoiling hands of the railroads that are to cross the valley on a great steel viaduct in order to reach the bridge over the St. Lawrence River. Before the tragedy is enacted let us glance […]
Quebec – The Maid of the Mountain – Pt. 2
About the middle of the winter that followed, a messenger from one of the hospitals came to me and said that an Indian by the name of Charlo, who was a patient in the institution, suffering from frozen feet wished to see me. I answered the summons at once, and found my quondam companion of […]
Quebec – The Maid of the Mountain
IT HAD been a long day on the Jacques Cartier River. We had run it in my canoe from far up among the mountains down into the valley where it ceases to fret and foam, and an occasional clearing on the bank indicated the pioneers’ struggle for foothold on the land. I had fished the […]
Quebec – When the Habitant Weds and Old Customs Still Prevail
WHEN old Narcisse had deposited the tinette of butter in the hangard, made all the polite inquiries as to the health of the various members of the family, had swallowed his coup of whiskey blanc with many declarations of approval of the quality of that liquor as a throat scratcher, (grate la gorge), he then, […]
Quebec – An Old Seignorial Deed
IN searching through some old family papers recently I came upon a deed, a grant of land (en seigneurie) by the commissioners for the Jesuit estates in the County of Quebec, to an officer late of the 60th Rifles. It is dated the 14th of February, 1821. The conditions of this grant under the old […]
Quebec – Some Quebec Bird Notes
WHEN the inexorable railroad laid its hands on our old home ” Ravenscliffe, ” Cap Rouge, where for sixteen years we had browsed among the wild birds and wild flowers from spring until late autumn, and in winter followed on snowshoes the trail of the red deer, the fox, loup cervier, hare and partridge, we […]
Quebec – At the Mekinac
THE “Ancient and Honorable,” the Commodore and, I were guests of that well known veteran of the American War. Capt. G. W. Batchelder of Boston, at his beautiful camp on Lake Chateau some eighteen miles from Grande Piles on the St. Maurice River. We had reached there after a day of journeying from Quebec with […]
A Letter to Sportsmen
Dr Frank M. Johnson of Boston, the author of that superb work: “Forest, Lake and Stream,” was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Convention of the N. A. Fish and Game Protection Association that was held in Quebec in February last. He arrived too late to read a carefully prepared paper, and only in time […]
Where Military and Sporting Rifles are Made
IT WAS Lieut. Col. E. Wurtele who courteously offered to conduct us over the Ross Rifle factory. It was Mr. Henry Bock, the able Superintendent, and Mr. W. O. Baines, of the staff, who brought our visit to a delightful close, by kindly suggesting some off hand shooting with the Ross rifle, that we might […]
The Fur Trade of Quebec
FOR the last three centuries the fur trade on the North American continent has proved most fascinating to the speculative commercial spirits of the several European countries engaged in it. The chances for gain were immense if the cards proved propitious. The bolder spirits risked and either won or lost, but in the mean time […]