We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $81,586,712.52 | Books Available: 791,872 | Members Online: 333

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - Quebec - Historic Seaport

Quebec Historic Seaport
Author: Mazo De La Roche

Quebec Preface A FTER HAVING SPENT the greater part of my life in writing - T-L. of imaginary characters it has been a novel experience to write an account of historical events, a strange experience to keep my very active imagination in leash. I have found great fascination in these characters of the past, even with their weight of cold dates, t... more »reaties, and acts. I have been guided chiefly by two great historians Francis Park man, of Boston, and Professor George Wrong, of Toronto. I was already acquainted with the genius of Parkman, but Professor Wrongs beautifully written and commanding Rise and Fall of New France and The Canadians were new to me. By these strong guides my halt ing footsteps have been mercifully directed. Immediately before the war I lived for a short while in Boston. Two nieces of Francis Parkman were my near neighbors in Chestnut Street. One Was an invalid, but the other wrote to me inviting me to take tea with her because she had enjoyed my novels. I shall not forget that meeting or the distinguished and charming picture made by Miss Parkman in the somber setting of the old house where her tuicle had lived and worked. She told me of past days in Boston, I little dreaming that Francis Parfemans works would one day have such a special interest for me, When I was a youiig girl I w s jfoi a tfctye a iieighbor of Pirpf essor Wrong. It wtotli chat my first short story was Preface Hshed in an American magazine. I was much too shy to speak to Pro fessor Wrong, little dreaming that I too should become a historian, though only for a year I must not forget the long list of those writers from whose books I gathered, here a telling fact, there a picturesque detail. A stream of these books has flowed steadily into my hands from the reference library of Toronto and the North York Library. Miss Helen Dean, chief librarian of the latter, has so intelligently, cheerfully, and pa tiently directed this stream that I cannot thank her warmly enough. So, with mingled audacity and apprehension, I deposit this cuckoos egg in the austere nest of the historians. There may be errors in this book. If there are, I shall comfort myself with the thought that greater historians than I have flatly contradicted each other. In truth, it has been one of my difficulties to choose between entirely opposite versions of the same event. I have never liked to talk about my novels while at work on them but, while writing the story of Quebec, I was in danger of becoming a bore, for on the slightest provocation I would hold forth on the subject of wars, explorations, persecutions, or tortures, till, becoming conscious of the plaintive looks on the faces of my family, I would desist. I hope I have written an interesting history of the Port of Quebec. But if my readers decide that I have not, I can promise them this nothing of the sort will ever happen again MAZO DE LA ROCHE Windrwh Hill York Mills 2nd February, 1944. viii Contents Preface vii I The Rock i II Carriers Last Voyages 15 III Samuel de Champlain 21 IV Champlain Ruler of Canada 31 V The Father of New France 44 VI Pomp and Piety 6r VII Talon 73 VIII Frontenac 79 IX Frontenacs Recall 92 X Bitter Strife 99 XI Who Will Own Canada in XII The Inevitable Hour 119 XIII Levis Fruitless Victory 138 XIV The Tumult Dies andRises Again 147 XV The Loyalists . 163 Contents XVI One Alarm after Another 171 XVII Disunity in Unity 179 XVIII Progress and Ghosts 185 XIX Fortifications Material and Spiritual 196 Index 205 Illustrations Facing Page Champlain Monument on Dufferin Terrace 28 Champlain Market in the Lower Town 29 Little Champlain Street, Showing Stairs at Far End ... 52 Little Champlain Street, Looking Down from the Stairs . . 53 Jean Talon, after the Painting in the Hotel Dieu .... 76 Shrine, Island of Orleans 77 Le Comte de Frontenac, from a Painting Which Hangs in the Chateau Frontenac 100 An Aerial View of Quebec 101 A Plan of the City of Quebec As It Was About 1 760 . . ...

ISBN-13: 9781406747935
ISBN-10: 1406747939
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 236
Rating:

0 stars, based on 0 rating

Publisher: Thonssen Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Back to the Top ↑

Search - Quebec - Historic Seaport

Loading...