Note 104 — Chapter III · MODERN PAROCHIAL DIVISIONS: THE STREETS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ETC. THEIR ASSOCIATIONS, EMINENT INHABITANTS, ETC.
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This inscription, through various means, I have traced back nearly a century: another century makes us contemporary. Would all recollection of such momentous times die away in that time? The writer of this spoke to an old man in 1845, who remembered the bells ringing for the capture of Quebec by Wolfe in 1759.