CHAPTEE Xin. 



1636-1646. 

 QUEBEC AND ITS TENANTS. 



The New Governor. — Edifying Examples. — Le Jeune's Corre- 

 spondents. — Rank and Devotion. — Nuns. — Priestly Au- 

 thority. — Condition of Quebec. — The Hundred Associates. 



— Church Discipline. — Plays. — Fireworks. — Processions. 



— Catechizing. — Terrorism. — Pictures. — The Converts. — 

 The Society of Jesus. — The Foresters. 



I HAVE traced, in another volume, the life and 

 death of the noble founder of New France, Samuel 

 de Champlain. It was on Christmas Day, 1635, 

 that his heroic spirit bade farewell to the frame it 

 had animated, and to the rugged cliff where he had 

 toiled so long to lay the corner-stone of a Christian 

 empire. 



Quebec was without a governor. Who should 

 succeed Champlain? and would his successor be 

 found equally zealous for the Faith, and friendly to 

 the mission'? These doubts, as he himself tells us, 

 agitated the mind of the Father Superior, Le 

 Jeune ; but they were happily set at rest, when, on 

 a morning in June, he saw a ship anchoring in the 

 basin below, and, hastening with his brethren to 

 the landing-place, was there met by Charles Huault 



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