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Title: The Lady of Fort St. John

Author: Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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THE LADY OF FORT ST. JOHN

by

MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD

Author of "The Romance of Dollard"

[Illustration]

Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1891
Copyright, 1891,
By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

This book I dedicate

TO

TWO ACADIANS OF THE PRESENT DAY;

NATIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA WHO REPRESENT THE LEARNING
AND GENTLE ATTAINMENTS OF THE
NEW ORDER:

DR. JOHN-GEORGE BOURINOT, C. M. G., ETC.
CLERK OF THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS, OF
OTTAWA; AND

DR. GEORGE STEWART,
OF QUEBEC.

PREFACE.

How can we care for shadows and types, when we may go back through
history and live again with people who actually lived?

Sitting on the height which is now topped by a Martello tower, at St.
John in the maritime province of New Brunswick, I saw--not the opposite
city, not the lovely bay; but this tragedy of Marie de la Tour, the
tragedy "which recalls" (says the Abbe Casgrain in his "Pelerinage au
pays d'Evangeline") "the romances of Walter Scott, and forces one to own
that reality is stranger than fiction."

In "Papers relating to the rival chiefs, D'Aulnay and La Tour," of the
Massachusetts Historical Collection, vol. vii., may be found these
prefatory remarks:--

"There is a romance of Histor