[casgrain] remarks ON "THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC" HI 



After Bouic'hette, we find in the same department, John Adams, 

 E.M.S.D., re-affirming the statement relative to the position of this 

 first stone, as being the place where Wolfe fell. On a plan made by 

 him from actual and original survey, 1822, engraved by E. Bennett, 

 Quebec, and dedicated to Lord Dalhousie, there is marked in front of 

 and the west side of the redoubt : " Wolfe's RedonM near which he fell." 

 Though the redoubt has disappeared its location is well settled and 

 known by the plans. It covered a part of the ground of the east wing 

 of the gaol, and the stone was planted in its yard, in line with and 

 twenty feet from the wœt wall of this wing. 



This plan may be seen at tlie City Hall, and the quoted inscription 

 may [well serve to account for the continuation of the interest and 

 reverence attached to this spot by visitors and strangers. For it was, 

 dowTi to the year 1835, the date of the first imonument to Wolfe, on 

 the Plains, the only visible sign on the Plains to remember his glorious 

 death, and was at the time believed by many to be the actual spot 

 where he died, until the erection of the monument determined forever 

 the sacred ground where " he breathed his last." 



This continued and beloved tradition, based upon this meridian 

 stone, if untrue, could not possibly have been countenanced by a 

 number of living witnesses, who had been at the battle. Ko one will 

 believe that Holland, during more than fi.fteen years that he saw the 

 people's reverence for this landmark, could lend himself to a shameful 

 deceit; the more so as there were at the time, in and around Quebec 

 many survivors of Wolfe's army, such as 'the two Frasiers, Nairne, James 

 Tho'mson, etc., also Carlton, Lord Dorchester, afterwards Govemor-in- 

 Chief of the Provinces, without reckoning a great many more abroad, 

 and particularly his co-workers in the original plans. 



The cherished memory of Wolfe went on increasing in Quebec, as 

 proved by the erection (began 1827), of the monument to him and 

 Montcalm, his brave opponent, and terminated in 1834, when affixing 

 together thereon the names of the two heroes. 



Shortly afterwards (1835), the G-overnor, Lord Aylmer, erected the 

 first monument on the Plains. 



It is a pleasure to quote on tliis subject the brilliant scholar, the 

 learned and gentlemanly editor of the old Albion, ouv late Dr. John 

 Charlton Fisher, LL.D., who wrote in the Quebec Mercury, September 

 17th, 1835, an intereeting and appropriate article bearing 'Closely to 

 the site of the above meridian stone. It is headed : — 



" Monument on the Plains of Abraham to the Memory of Wolfe." 



" The last anniversary (1834) of the Battle of the Plains of Abra- 

 ham was aptly chosen as the day on which the names of the heroes 

 Wolfe and Montcalm were affixed on the sarcophagus, on which rests 



