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One word about another element — a law-abiding one 

 — in our complex population, felt, but whose origin re- 

 mains yet to be enquired into by our ethnologists : 

 the German element. Whence and at what date came 

 among us these notable men — the Wurtele, Hoffman, 

 Hesse, Ampleman, Euthven, Von Koenig, Von Iffiand, 

 De Eottenburg, Idler, Seybauld, Bowen, Stoepleben, 

 Beinhart, Colback, Hind, Wolff, Eckhart ? How many of 

 them can seek for their ancestors amongst the Bruns- 

 wickers and Hessians, who landed at Quebec in 1776 

 under Baron Eediesel and with the various shiploads of 

 Germans, chiefly from Wurtemburg, who emigrated 

 to Canada to escape conscription during the early 

 Napoleonic wars and previous. 



The Pozer family dates back to old George Pozer, the 

 millionaire, as he was styled, but he did not come 

 direct from Germany ; he had first settled in New 

 York and then returned to England, lauding at Quebec 

 in 1791. 



The Irish population of Quebec became considerable 

 about 1823, when emigration was flowing from the 

 green Isle to America ; emigration increased to very 

 large proportions about 1847 ; the Irish headquarters 

 in the city then were in Champlain street. The Irish 

 settlements, in the townships and round Quebec, date 

 back as early as 1815. 



They grew in importance and numbers, under the 

 wise guidance of a venerated priest, the Eevd. Father 

 McMahon, living in amity with their English neighbors ; 

 they founded a national society in 1835. 



The great bulk of the population of the city still 

 French, is not by any means oblivious of the father- 

 land, beyond the seas. 



" Few cities, says M. Marmier, " offer as many 

 striking contrasts, as Quebec ; a fortress and a commer- 

 cial city together, built upon the summit of a rock as 

 the nest of an eagle, while her vessels are everywhere 

 wrinkling the face of the ocean; an American city 



