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sacred duty of garnering and preserving its own historic 

 records, in which are revealed the struggles, material 

 and intellectual progress of its inhabitants from their 

 rude beginnings to the present day. I am more parti- 

 cularly reminded of this at the present time by the 

 perusal of the annual report, the Annuairede VInstitut 

 Canadian of Quebec, for the year 1889. 



Amidst other interesting matter, it contains summa- 

 ries of no less than seventeen (1) hitherto unpublished 

 Memoires, compiled by a distinguished engineer officer 

 sent out from France, Col. Franquet, who came to 

 America, in 1750, as Chief Engineer of Fortifications ; 

 he had been charged by the king of France with the 

 duty of fortifying Louisbourg, in Cape Breton, which he 

 did, though it had to succumb, in 1758, to the victorious 

 arms of Wolfe, despite the heroic defence it made. 

 Franquet landed at Louisbourg, in 1750 ; in 1851, he 



(1) Voyages et Memoires sur le Canada, par Franquet. 



1752. Voyages de Quebec aux Trois-Rivieres, Montreal et 

 au Lac St-Sacrement. 



1753. Voyages de Quebec au village de Lorette Sauvage. 

 Memoire pour les principaux endroits parcourus de Mont- 

 real au Lac St-Sacrement. 



1753. Voyage par terre et sur les glaces de Quebec a 

 Montreal. 



1753. Voyage par terre, de Quebec a la Pointe-aux-Trembles 

 pour accompagner M. le General dans son voyage a Montreal. 



Premier sejour a Montreal. 



Voyage au Lac des Deux Montagnes. 



Second sejour a Montreal. 



Sejour aux Trois-Rivieres. 



Du Fort St-Frederic. 



Du Fort de Chambly. 



De la Riviere de Richelieu. 



Du Village Precancour. 



Du (reinsing. 



Memoire sur les moyens d'augmenter la culture des terres 

 du Canada. 



Quebec 1753. Memoire sur le projet des ouvrages proposes 

 pour defendre la basse-ville et la haute. 



