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It had been first used as a " magazine for the army 

 contractor's provisions, in 1761. " On the 4th June, 

 1765, His Excellency General James Murray had.it 

 surveyed and appropriated for quarters and barracks 

 for the troops, all except some apartments ; the court 

 and garden was used as a drill and parade ground until 

 the departure of Albion's soldiers in 1871. 



How singular, how sad to think that this loved, this 

 glorious relic of the French regime, entire even to the 

 Jesuit College - arms, carved in stone over its chief 

 entrance, should have remained sacred and intact during 

 the century of occupation by English soldiery — (there 

 is evidently little of the Vandal or Communist about 

 the trooper who took the word of command from 

 Wolfe, Wellington or Wolseley) — and that its destruc- 

 tion should have been decreed so soon as the British 

 legions, by their departure, in 1871, had virtually 

 handed it over to the French Province of Quebec? 



The discovery on the 28th August, 1878, of human 

 remains beneath the floor of this building — presumed 

 to be those of some of the early missionaries — induced 

 the authorities to institute a careful search during its 

 demolition. These bones and others exhumed on the 

 31st August, and on the 1st and 9th September, 1878, 

 were pronounced by two members of the faculty, Drs. 

 Hubert Larue and Chs. E. Lemieux, both Professors of 

 the Laval University, (who signed a certificate to that 

 effect) to be the remains of three (1) persons of the male 



(1) Mr. Faucher de Saint Maurice having been charged by 

 the Premier, Hon. Mr. Joly, to watch the excavations and 

 note the discoveries, in a luminous report, sums up the whole 

 case. From this document, among other things, we glean 

 that the remains of the three persons of male sex are 

 those of : 



1° Pere Francois du Peron, who died at Fort St. Louys 

 (Chambly) 10th November, 1665, and was conveyed to Quebec 

 for burial. 



2° Pere Jean de Quen, the discoverer of Lake Saint John, 

 who died at Quebec on 8th October, 1659, froru the effects of 



