Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Then and Now; The Earliest Beginnings of Canada; The Sillery Mission
Story of every true citizen's own life: and the hamlet beginnings of Quebec at the base and on the brow of the hill which over looks the Oul - de-sac, when placed in com parison with the city's spreading limits of to-day, northward and westward, towards the St. Charles River and the Plains of Abraham, form a contrast which provokes a pardonable pride in the hearts of every one of its citizens. Permanent or transient. It is a life's privilege to have lived in such a place. Nor has any town on the contin ent of America received so much attention from the historiographer and descriptive writer. Indeed. Few visitors escape some kind of baptism from the literary spirit in presence of the picturesque marvels of its nature loci or after tracing its communal developments during the three centuries of.
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