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strictly legal manner through the proper channel ; interest 

 had nothing to do with it. I may add that the title is 

 historic in Canada, and that the barony belongs to me now. " 



[From Quebec Morning Chronicle, 30th December, 1880.] 



A NEW BARON DE LONGUEUIL. 



We are permitted to extract from a letter by yesterday's 

 mail, to our fellow- townsman, J. M. LeMoine, from Charles 

 Colmore Grant, Esq., of London, enclosing the following 

 official excerp from the London Official Gazette, resuscitating 

 the most honored French title of the Province of Quebec. 



Extract from the u London Gazette " of December 7th, 1880 : 



" Downing Street, December 4th, 1880. 



" The Queen has been graciously pleased to recognise the 

 claim of Charles Colmore Grant, Esq., to the title of Baron 

 de Longueuil, of Longueuil, in the Province of Quebec, 

 Canada. 



" This title was conferred upon his ancestor Charles Le 



of Quebec, Canada, (on recognition of the title) by the 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies. " 



" Debrett's Peerage " for 1881 thus writes of" Canada's only 

 Baron " : — The recent recognition by Her Majesty of a Cana- 

 dian barony in an exceptional circumstance, and the gentle- 

 man (Baron de Longueuil) whose title has been acknowledged 

 holds the remarkable position of being the only subject of 

 the Queen who is a colonial peer, and who at the same time 

 has not any precedence. The feudal barony is entirely 

 exceptional, and is the only Canadian hereditary title exist- 

 ing. The patent of nobility signed by King Louis XIV, 

 granting this title to Charles Le Moyne for distinguished 

 services is remarkable as creating not only a territorial 

 barony, but also conferring a title of honour on himself and 

 his descendants, whether male or female. The cession of 

 Canada to England by the Treaty of Paris, in 1763, made no 

 change in the legal right to hold honors. Since this period 

 each successive head of the family has, by assumption of right, 

 used the title; but it was not officially recognized by the 

 British Government until December 4th, 1880. 



