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sions in the French navy " so as to draw closer to the 

 mother- county, the Canadian nobles and the settlers. " 



A cursory glance at the above, " will show that with 

 the exception of the LeMoyne, the St. Ours, the Bou- 

 cher, the others named have well nigh disappeared, as 

 notable families in Canada. The third Baron de Lon- 

 gueuil, who was killed in the action at Ticonderoga, in 

 1755, left one daughter, who succeeded him as Baro- 

 ness de Longueuil in her own right. Her cousin as the 

 male heir, brought an action claiming the title. The 

 case was tried in Paris, and the High Court decided 

 against him. This lady married Capt. Grant, of the 

 94th Kegiment, and the title descended through her to 

 her son, grand-father of Charles Colmore Grant, the 

 present Baron de Longueuil. 



In a reply to " Modem Society, " a London journal, 

 who had asserted that " the title of Baron de Lon- 

 gueuil possessed no legal existence " the Baron wrote : 



" When my father died I determined that unless the title 

 were officially acknowledged I would not use it. I therefore 

 brought the matter before the Canadian Government, claim- 

 ing the recognition of the title by Her Majesty. After a most 

 searching investigation they decided that, according to the 

 law of Canada, the title legally existed there, and that under 

 the treaty by which Canada was ceded to England I was 

 strictly within my right in claiming an official recognition of 

 it. The claim was accordingly forwarded by the Canadian 

 Government to the Colonial Office, who again subjected it to 

 a strict investigation. After some delay, caused by questions 

 which arose between the two Governments on international 

 law as affecting the case, the Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies submitted the question to Her Majesty in person, 

 who was graciously pleased to give orders for the recognition 

 to be at once accorded. It was gazetted, and I was presented 

 at the next Levee by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) 

 as upon the recognition of the title. The matter from the 

 beginning was a strictly legal question, and was settled in a 



(1) " The Queen held a Drawing Koom at Buckingham Palace 

 on the 25th of February, 188.1, when the following presenta- 

 tations were made : Baroness de Longueuil, by the Countess of 

 Kimberley, also Baron de Longueuil, of Longueuil, Province 



