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met, the pioneer-missionaries of New France, the band 

 of martyrs, the geographers, discoverers, savants and 

 historians of this learned order : Dolbeau, de Quen, 

 Druillettes, Daniel, de la Brosse, de Oepieul, de Carheil, 

 Brebceuf, Lallemant, Jogues, de Noue, Eaimbeanlt, 

 Albanel, Chaumonot, Dablon, Menard, LeJeune, Massed 

 Vimont, Eagueneau, Charlevoix, (1) and crowds of 

 others. Here, they assembled to receive their orders, 

 to compare notes, mayhap, to discuss the news of the 

 death or of the success of some of their indefatigable 

 explorers of the great West ; how the " good word " 

 had been fearlessly carried to the distant shores of lake 

 Huron, to the bayous and perfumed groves of Florida, 

 or to the trackless and frozen regions of Hudson's Bay. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, need I add anything more 

 on a subject (2) which the genius of Francis Parkman 

 has surrounded with so much sunshine ? 



Later on, when France had suppressed the order of 

 the Jesuits, and when her lily banner had disappeared 

 from our midst, the college and its grounds were 

 appropriated to other uses — alas ! less congenial. 



The roll of the English drum and the sharp " word 

 of command " of a British adjutant or of his drill ser- 

 geant, for a century and more, resounded in the halls, 

 in which latin orisons were formerly sung ; and in the 

 classic grounds, and grassy court, (3) canopied by those 

 stately oaks and elms, which our sires yet remember — 

 to which the good Fathers retreated in sweet seclusion, 

 to " say " their Breviaries and tell their beads, might 

 have been heard the coarse joke of the guard-room and 

 the coarser oath of the trooper. 



(1) Faucher de Saint-Maurice. 



(2) The Jesuits in North Ameeica. By Frs. Parkman, 

 Boston, 1867. 



(3) A memorable Indian Council was held in the court of 

 the Jesuits' College, on 31st August, 1666. 



