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gomery, until their removal to St. Paul's Church, 

 New York, at the request of Jane Livingstone, his 

 sorrowing widow who had a suitable monument erected 

 to his memory. Let us hail, as we pass the Garrison 

 Club, founded on the 11th September, 1879, the shades 

 of all those eminent Koyal Engineer officers, who, of 

 yore, vied with one another in devising plans to make 

 ourfortalice impregnable: Gother Mann,Twiss,Bruyeres, 

 Durnford, Duberger, By, the founder of By town, now 

 Ottawa. In this long, low building, for years the head- 

 quarters of the Eoyal Engineers, the Quebec Garrison 

 Club now holds forth ; (1) adjoining, enshrined in garden 

 plots and shade trees, still stands the old Sewell manor, 



(1) The early history of the R. E. office in Quebec is inter- 

 woven not a little with our old system previous to Respon- 

 sible Government, when the commanding officer of Royal 

 Engineers was a most important personage, and second only 

 in authority to the Governor-General himself, who was also 

 a military officer and commander-in-chief. In those days, 

 before the Crown Lands were vested in the Provincial Gov- 

 ernment, the C. R. E. sat at the land-board, in order to retain 

 reserves for the Crown, or for military purposes, and in other 

 ways to advise the Governor-General in such matters ; but 

 unfortunately all the old and interesting records of that 

 period were removed with the head-quarters under Sir John 

 Oldfielcl, R. E., to Montreal, in 1839 and destroyed by the great 

 fire in 1852. 



At a very early date after the conquest, the R. E. office was 

 located in a wing of the Parliament House, near Prescott 

 Gate, and also in the old Chateau St. Louis ; but upon the 

 purchase of the present building, with the land attached, at 

 the foot of the Citadel hill, from Archibald Ferguson, Esq., 

 on the 5th July, 1819, removed thither, and there remained 

 as the C. R. E. quarters until the withdrawal of the troops, a 

 few years ago, in accordance with the change of policy in 

 England, in regard to the Colonies, requiring Colonel Hamil- 

 ton, R. E., the last Imperial Commandant of this garrison in 

 1871, to hand it over to the care of the Canadian Militia, 

 whose pride it ever will be to preserve and perpetuate the 

 memories of the army of worthies and statesmen who have 

 sat and worked within its walls." — {Morning Chronicle, 

 Christmas Supplement, 1881.) 



