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where stood his famous Fort St. Louis. To enlist your 

 sympathy in this patriotic cause, I need merely mention 

 the subject. At the present moment, our younger 

 sister-city, Montreal, founded in 1642, thirty-four 

 years later than Quebec, is taking the necessary steps, 

 with the aid of citizens of all origins to have erected 

 within two years a monument and statue to its valiant 

 founder, Chomedey de Maisonneuve. It is time 

 Quebecers should wake up also to a sense of duty — 

 the pleasant duty of keeping green and fragrant the 

 memory of its venerated first Governor, and if it should 

 be the province of any society in particular, by its con- 

 nection with history to favor any such project I think 

 the pleasant task by right belongs to the Literary and 

 Historical Society of Quebec. " 



Moved by Dr. W. Boswell, seconded by James 

 Stevenson, Esq. 



" That the society approves of the above." 



Erecting monuments to historical personages is a 

 very expensive undertaking. T'is not to be accomplished 

 in a day or a year. Scott's superb shaft, on Prince street, 

 Edinburgh, cost $80,000. Quebec can afford no such 

 costly stonebust; some place at $10,000; some at 

 $20,000 the probable cost of the monument to our 

 founder. But whatever the structure may be, let us 

 hope it will be worthy of Champlain — worthy of 

 Quebec. 



A difficulty, perhaps not unsurmountable, may arise 

 as to the selection of the site for this memorial, from 

 the existence of a clause in the deed of purchase by the 

 City Council, from the Provincial Government, of that 

 portion of the Jesuit estate facing the Basilica, on 

 which the future City Hall is likely to be built. 



Under the terms of the deed, three statues are to be 

 erected on this lot, of which Champlain's will form one. 



The most fitting place for a monument to the founder 

 of the city is undoubtedly the spot where stood his 

 -official residence, known as the historic Port Saint 



