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Beauport, in virtue of a grant dating as far back as 

 1634; his solid Beauport manor seems to have been 

 less attractive that winter than city life in Quebec. 

 He is now trudging over the snowy streets towards 

 the Jesuits College (the old Jesuits Barracks raized in 

 1878), facing the Basilica ; let us wish him the com- 

 pliments of the season ! He is followed by Juchereau 

 des Chatelets, the factor of the fur-company ; both will 

 receive pleasant souvenirs, New Year's gifts from the 

 learned, professors at the college. 



Another visitor is in view, Jehan or Jean Bourdon, 

 savant, land surveyor (1), engineer, explorer, a species of 

 admirable C rich ton, who left his surname to that 

 leading thoroughfare, St. John's street. Most appro- 

 priate presents await him : a telescope and a com- 

 pass. 



Other callers of less importance, socially, are gratified 

 with petits presents, — rosaries, medals, images, etc. 



Even the laundress of the college is remembered. 



That shady (2) old salt, the King's pilot, Abraham 

 Martin dit VEcossais, who bequeathed his name to his 

 Quebec estate, the historic plains of Abraham, comes 

 in for creature comforts and carries away a flagon, 

 probably of the " real stingo, from St. Domingo, by 

 Jingo, " a bottle of French rum, and his wife, six hand- 

 kerchiefs. Eobert Hache, the greedy felloAV, is not 

 satisfied with receiving two handkerchiefs, but " asks 

 for and gets more." 



Louis Couillard (3) who, the year previous, had 

 munificiently given the site on which was built the 

 Basilica minor, also Mile de Bepentigny, (4) waited 



(1) Bourdon was chief engineer of the colony. 



(2) There is in the Journal des Jisuites an awkward entry 

 for his fair fame ; seemingly he was not a Joseph. 



(3) Couillard was son-in-law of the first settler, Hebert. 



(4) Mademoiselle de Repentigny was daughter of Le Gar- 

 deur de Repentigny, commander of the fleet. 



