Note 1 — Chapter XXI

Inscription on plate for 2nd Governor of Canada 1766, read Lieutenant-Governor of Canada 1766.

[2] Now the Island of Orleans.

[3] Parkman's Pioneers of France, p. 203.

[4] Now the Richelieu.

[5] Now Montreal.

[6] The Indian belief regarding thunder was as follows: "It is a man in the form of a turkey-cock. The sky is his palace, and he remains in it when the air is clear. When the clouds begin to grumble, he descends to the earth to gather up snakes and other objects which the Indians call okies. The lightning flashes wherever he opens or closes his wings. If the storm is more violent than usual, it is because his young are with him and aiding in the noise as well as they can."—Relation des Jesuits, 1636.

[7] Now Schenectady.

[8] Edit du Roy contre les Jureurs et Blasphémateurs, 1666.

[9] Jugements et Délibérations du Conseil Supérieur.

[10] The declivity above its site is still known as Palace Hill.

[11] Gulf of California.

[12] Later called Fort Frontenac, and the site of the present city of Kingston.

[13] Parkman, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, chap. xiv.

[14] "...Notre Ange tutélaire, le Sieur de la Salle."—Douay.

[15] The Indian name for Count Frontenac.

[16] Of the gallant Le Moyne family, of whom also was d'Iberville, the soldier, explorer, and governor.

[17] Discovered at the demolition of the old wall in 1854.

[18] The narrative has been preserved in the heroine's own words, through the care of the Marquis de Beauharnois, sometime Governor of Canada.

[19] Parkman's Frontenac c.14 (quoting from Collection de l'Abbé Ferland).

[20] Laval was the owner of the Seigneury of Beauport and the Isle d'Orleans, which by royal edict had been freed from feudal burdens. By the census of 1667 it was found to contain more than one-fourth of the entire population of Canada.

[21] This was the officer who, years before, had striven to rescue the victims of the massacre of Lachine.

[22] Brigadier John Hill was the brother of Mrs. Masham, Queen Anne's favourite, to whom, and not to his merit, he owed his appointment.

[23] Now called Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island respectively.

[24] Archives of Nova Scotia.

[25] Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. i. chap. vii.

[26] Lambert, Travels, vol i. p. 158.

[27] Captain Knox's Journal of the Siege.

[28] Ticonderoga, the Indian name for the fort of Carillon.

[29] Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. ii., Appendix.

[30] Now known as Wolfe's Cove.

[31] Afterwards Marquis of Townshend.

[32] This romantic story is not fully established. Parkman cites it as historical, but Kingsford considers it disproved by General Murray's Journal. Its original source is the diary of the Chevalier de Lévis, but it also appears in The Campaign of 1760, attributed to the Chevalier Johnstone, Montcalm's Scotch aide-de-camp.

[33] Aux braves de 1760, érigé par la Société St. Jean Baptiste de Québec.

[34] It was changed into a bi-weekly in 1818, and in 1874 was merged into the Chronicle as a daily paper.

[35] Article by John S. Reade in the Centenary number, Quebec Gazette, 1864.

[36] Siege of Quebec, 1775, 1776, by John Joseph Henry.

[37] Southey's Life of Nelson, chap. i.

[38] Now the City of Kingston, Ontario.

[39] "May this prison cause the wicked to bear testimony to the just."

[40] Quoted by Beckles Willson, The Great Company, vol. i. p. 141.

[41] Umfreville, Present State of Hudson's Bay, 1790.

[42] Robson, Six Years' Residence in Hudson's Bay, 1752.

[43] Founded in honour of William M'Gillivray in 1805.

[44] Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815, being the Ridout Letters, with Annotations, by Matilda Edgar, 1891.

[45] Now Toronto.

[46] The Times, 3rd May, 1838.

[47] Quebec Gazette, 29th May, 1838.