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Title: Famous Firesides of French Canada

Author: Mary Wilson Alloway

Release Date: December 14, 2009 [EBook #30674]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Hearths beside which were rocked the cradles of those who
made the history of Canada.]

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.

Chateau de Ramezay 19

Heroes of the Past 30

Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire 51

Le Seminaire 56

Cathedrals and Cloisters 58

Massacre of Lachine 82

Chateau de Vaudreuil 95

Battle of the Plains 103

Canada under English Rule 125

American Invasion 144

The Continental Army in Canada 155

Fur Kings