OLD MURRAY BAY 



Riviere a Comporte presences the name of 

 the first Seignior, and the earliest settle- 

 ment in the valley was probably about the 

 mouth of this sadly diminished stream. 

 'Beulah' had its baptism less than fifty years 

 ago from one whose eyes were opened to see 

 that ' ... in this land the Shining Ones 

 commonly walked, because it was upon the 

 borders of heaven.' 



The road to Quebec was not completed 

 until 1856, but was open between Murray 

 Bay and Bale St. Paul m,ore than half a 

 century earlier. The St. Urbain road (to 

 Ha Ha Bay) was finished about 1865. 

 When the house now standing at the corner 

 of the Quebec road and the village street 

 was built, there was no road passing it and 

 crossing the Point, but there was access 

 along the water's edge to the Petit Debar- 

 quement already mentioned ; a highway fol- 

 lowed speedily upon the building of the 

 wharf. The Point and the land about it 

 must have been cleared or burned over in 

 early times, for old photographs show a 

 covering of the merest scrub. The Boule- 

 vard is, of course, a recent creation; one 

 could wish it had retained the name given 

 it — the Chemin des Falaises — but the com- 

 monplace triumphed. Many ancient foot- 

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