QUEBEC. 



" I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes 



With the memorials and the things of fame 



That do renown this city. " 



— Shakespeare. 



Quebec, founded by Samuel de Champlain, on the 

 3rd July, 1608, is the capital of the province, bearing 

 the same name — the oldest of the several provinces, 

 confederated in 1867, as the Dominion of Canada. 



There is no city in America more famous in the 

 annals of history, and few on the continent of Europe 

 more picturesquely located. 



Whilst the surrounding scenery reminds one of the 

 unrivalled views of the Bosphorus, the airy site of the 

 citadel on Cape Diamond, recals Innspruck and Edin- 

 burgh. 



" The Gibraltar of America, " bristling with artillery, 

 sits defiant on a rocky promontory, at the confluence of 

 the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers, 180 miles from 

 Montreal and over 400 miles from the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence. It has, by the annexation of St. Sauveur, about 

 80,000 inhabitants, with six chartered banks, several 

 Masonic lodges, five French and three English newspa- 

 pers. The chief business of the city until a few years 

 back was shipbuilding, and the exportation of lumber ; 

 latterly, the high rates of labour, enforced by arbitrary 

 regulations, bids fair, unless arrested, to carry to other 



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ports a notable portion of the returns derived by the 

 working-man from this latter rich mine of industry. 

 Quebec, since the days of Bishop Laval, has continued 

 to be the seat of the Boman Catholic hierarchy in Can- 

 ada ; the elevation of its archbishop to the dignity of a 



