A CANADIAN ANTIQUARY-ABBE BOIS. 



The tomb has recently closed over a writer whose 

 name was a house-hold word for antiquarian pursuits 

 in the Province of Quebec, and whose publications on 

 historical subjects have reached far beyond the land of 

 his birth— the Abbe Bois, F. R. S. C, Maskinong<§, 

 P. Q. 



Louis Edouard Bois, first drew the breath of life on 

 September 13, 1813, in an old tenement, corner of 

 Notre Dame and Sous-le-Fort streets, lower town, 

 Quebec, on the spot where the founder of the city, 

 Samuel de Champlain, had erected the " Abitation de 

 Champlain, " two centuries previous. At a very tender 

 age he was sent to an English school kept by Mr. 

 Marsden, the father of the late Dr. Win. Marsden, 

 where, doubtless, he acquired that knowledge of the 

 English idiom which enabled him in after-life to pro- 

 secute, in English as well as in French, his interesting 

 researches in matters of history. M. Bois completed 

 his education at the Quebec Seminary and College of 

 Ste. Anne. He was inducted in holy orders, in 1837, 

 and removed, in 1848, to the flourishing old parish of 

 Maskinonge, in the district of Three-Rivers, where he 

 expired in September, 1889, after a prolonged illness, 

 having been in charge of this cure, forty-one years. 



The old cur 4 made a noble use of his pecuniary 

 means and leisure hours for the promotion of historical 

 studies and publication of rare documents, unearthed 

 by him in the dusty vaults of the Quebec parlia- 

 ment, where were stowed away in dire confusion the 

 priceless provincial archives. Aided by powerful friends, 

 in Parliament and a devoted publisher in Quebec, 

 Mr. A. Cote, the Abbe Bois succeeded in obtaining 



