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Education, he visited the little, now almost extinct village of 
Brouage, the native place of Champlain, founder of Canada. 
Inspired with the enthusiasm of piety, he brought home from that 
spot of Canadian nativity, two rather impressive and ponderable 
reliques of the days when Champlain was a boy and his village an 
active and prosperous port on the Biscayan shore. One of these 
consisted of the heavy stones which inclosed a small arched gateway 
through a masonry wall into the garden of what is locally accredited 
as the site of Champlain’s home; the other the heavy curbs of Caen- 
stone which capped a well in the garden of the Recollet monastery, 
contemporary with the times of Champlain. Coming to Albany, 
Doctor Finley brought these ponderous reliques with him and after 
the enthusiasm of conscious possession had somewhat passed, it 
seemed well to place these souvenirs in communities where they 
would be most effectively preserved and appreciated. So the Cham- 
plain archway is now installed in one of the rooms of the Chateau 
de Ramezay, Montreal, the home of the Numismatic and Antiquarian 
Society of Canada, having been put in its present place early in 1914. 
The curbstones have had a varying fortune. Offered to, and 
accepted by the Recollet church at Limoilou, Quebec, they were sent 
thither, only to be returned as not large enough, though their sev- 
eral hundred weight made transportation costs sufficiently so. 
Finally, during the past year, they have been enthusiastically received 
by the fathers of the Recollet monastery at Ristigouche, Province 
of Quebec. There could be no more appropriate place for them, as 
this institution preserves memorials of the old monastery at Brouage 
which have enabled Father Pacifique to reset the stones as they origi- 
nally stood, and reconstruct the canopy or well-house over them. 
Thus, under the direction of the saintly and learned Father Pacifique 
the erection was carried out, the memorial marked with inscribed 
marble tablets, and a day set (St Ann’s Day, July 26th, 1922) for 
the public celebration of the installation. This event was of notable, 
if minor, historical interest and it attracted wide public attention 
throughout French Canada because of its associations and the linking 
together of such eminent Catholic and Presbyterian personages. 
Ristigouche stands on the shore of the broad waters of the Risti- 
gouche river which is the fluid boundary line between French Canada 
and Scotch New Brunswick. The living waters bathe both shores 
and the passage over it is but the slender effort of a few moments. 
Thus once more John Calvin reached out his hand to St Peter. The 
historic celebration was made the occasion of the publication by 
