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nationality, stronger than each of its separate elements 

 could have constituted it : in the other, will like causes 

 produce like results? Time will tell. 



Let us hear a conscientious historian : — " Are 

 you," asks the learned Abbe* Ferla'nd, " desirous of 

 studying antiquities, traditions and old Canadian cus- 

 toms ? Go then and examine the ruins of Chateau- 

 Eicher and the remains of the house of the Sieur 

 Carre (1) : you will notice in the Church of Ste. Anne, 

 the offerings of the Marquis of Tracy, of the Chevalier 

 d'Iberville (2) ex votos suspended to the walls shortly 

 after the middle of the 17th century ; you will meet 

 with families there who still own the lands conceded to 

 their ancestors about the year 1640; in the habitant 

 of the Cote de Beaupre', you will recognize the Norman 

 peasant of the reign of Louis XIV., with his chronicles, 

 his songs, his superstitions, his customs. 



" But since I now have you on the soil of this Cote 

 de Beauprd, I shall lay before you an episode of the 

 war of 1759, of which the locality we now occupy was 

 the theatre. This narrative will serve to disprove the 



(1) Carre was that fighting habitant, who, at the head of a 

 company of young Canadians, rushed up to Quebec, in 1690, 

 to repel invasion. After the departure of Phips, the French 

 commander was so pleased with Carre's bravery, that he made 

 him a present of two small cannon used in the siege. 



(2) " One is a wreck scene, Ste. Anne is represented as 

 descending from heaven to the aid of a fleet during a storm, 

 with the following curious inscription, which is copied verba- 

 tim et literatim : — 



EX. VOTO. LE. NAVIRE. LE. St. FRANCOIS. DE. CANADA. DEMATTE. DETOVS. 

 LES. MATS. LE. 29BRE. 1732 : COMMANDS. PAR. PIERRE. D'ASTARGIR. ARME. 

 PAR. M. LAMADRILLE. LE. JEVNE. 



" Another painting on the wall immediately opposite 

 represents the landing of emigrants sometime before the 

 year 1717 ; another not far distant, a squadron of three war 

 vessels, bearing a tri-colored flag of red, white and green. 

 Out of this last, one could extract no meaning, further than 

 supposing it represented some notable instance of the saint's 

 providential intervention. 



