| French Canadian Stories (15) |
Short Canadian Stories |
French Canadian Stories
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The Chateau De Ramezay
A few yards from the busy municipal centre of the city of Montreal,
behind an antique iron railing, is a quaint, old building known ...
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Heroes Of The Past
On the river bank below the Chateau, tradition says, was the spot
trodden by Jacques Cartier, who gave the river its name. Born at t...
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Notre-dame-de-la-victoire
A few rods to the west of the Chateau, through a vaulted archway leading
from the street, in the shadow of the peaceful convent buil...
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Le Seminaire
Still more ancient is a venerable postern in the blackened wall of the
Seminary of St. Sulpice, near by, which is now the oldest bui...
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Cathedrals And Cloisters
The Order of the Gentlemen of St. Sulpice is supposed to be very rich,
the amount of the immense revenues never being made public. T...
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The Massacre Of Lachine
The conquest and settlement of all new regions are necessarily more or
less written in blood, and the natural characteristics of the...
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The Chateau De Vaudreuil
A short distance to the south-west is the spot on which stood the
Chateau and famous gardens of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the last F...
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The Battle Of The Plains
It was the evening of the 12th of Sept., 1759. The French troops were on
the alert,--the British ready. The evening was calm and fin...
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Canada Under English Rule
General James Murray, the son of Lord Elibank, was appointed the first
British Governor of Canada. Previous to the fall of Montreal,...
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American Invasion
In the year 1775, when the thirteen American Colonies had risen in arms
against the Motherland, it was to be expected that they woul...
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The Continental Army In Canada
On the Sunday following Sir Guy Carleton's departure from Montreal, as
the people were proceeding to church, they were thrown into a...
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The Fur Kings
It was to the French explorers whose names stand "conspicuous on the
pages of half-savage romance," and to their successors the S...
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Interesting Sites
Few visitors to the city, as the Palace cars of the Canadian Pacific
Railway carry them into the mammoth station on Dalhousie Square...
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Famous Names
Conspicuous among the portraits of soldiers, heroes and navigators which
adorn the walls of the different rooms of the Chateau, i...
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Echoes From The Past
Near a modern window in the gallery leans an old spinning-wheel, which
was found in the vaults. By its hum in winter twilights, a hu...
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