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The House of Commons Canadian gallantry The constitution Mr. Hincks The ex-rebel Parties and leaders A street-row Repeated disappointments The "habitans" Their houses and their virtues A stationary people Progress and its effects Montmorenci The natural staircase The Indian summer Lorette The old people Beauties of Quebec The John Munn Fear and its consequences A gloomy journey.
Here the whole force was soon assembled, the regulars in their tents, the Canadian militia and the Indians in huts and under sheds of bark. Of these red allies there were several hundred: Abenakis and Algonquins from Sillery, Hurons from Lorette, and converted Iroquois from the Jesuit mission of Saut St. Louis, near Montreal.
They had not planned to go anywhere that day; but after church they found themselves with the loveliest afternoon of their stay at Quebec to be passed somehow, and it was a pity to pass it indoors, the colonel said at their early dinner. They canvassed the attractions of the different drives out of town, and they decided upon that to Lorette. The Ellisons had already been there, but Mr.
I still see the grim desolation of the Ypres salient; the heaps of ugly wreck that men call Lens and Lieviny and Souchez; and that long line of Notre Dame de Lorette, with the Bois de Bouvigny to the west of it where I stood among Canadian batteries just six weeks before the battle of Arras in 1917.
"Don't go on your own two feet, have six; do as I do, I never get out of my tilbury." "But you must be going to ask me for something beyond my powers." "No, it is only to make a woman love you within a fortnight." "Is it a lorette?" "Why?" "Because that's impossible; but if it concerns a woman, and a well-bred one who is also clever " "She is a very illustrious marquise."
Besides the towns of Quebec, Montreal and Three Rivers, in which was centralized the general activity, there were then several Christian villages, those of Lorette, Ste. Foy, Sillery, the village of La Montagne at Montreal, of the Sault St. Louis, and of the Prairie de la Madeleine.
The word lorette is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out of regard for the age of its forty members.
Should it be Lorette, with its cataract and its remnant of bleached and fading Hurons, or the Isle of Orleans with its fertile farms and its primitive peasant life, or Montmorenci, with the unrivaled fall and the long drive through the beautiful village of Beauport?
All the mission Indians in the colony were invited to join it, the Iroquois of the Saut and Mountain, Abenakis from the Chaudiere, Hurons from Lorette, and Algonquins from Three Rivers. A hundred picked soldiers were added, and a large band of Canadians. All told, they mustered six hundred and twenty-five men, under three tried leaders, Mantet, Courtemanche, and La Noue.
The English had six men wounded and nearly a hundred frost-bitten. Murray, Journal. Fraser, Journal. Captain Hazen and his rangers soon after had a notable skirmish. They were posted in a house not far from the station at Lorette.
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