Author: James Douglas

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-10

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 9780656225156

Excerpt from Old France in the New World: Quebec in the Seventeenth Century Should the above be the fate of my book, it is unkind to bury the names of friends with my own. Yet I cannot refrain from thanking the Abbe Scott, not only for permitting me tocopy maps from his interesting history of the Parish of St. Foy, but even lending me the block of the Portrait of Com mander Sillery Colonel Neilson for supplying more than one of my illustrations-from his valuable collection of Jesuit memorabilia, secured by his great-grandfather when the Jesuit Estates were sold in 1800; Mr. George Iles and Mr. W. D. Le Sueur for reading my proof sheets; and the Burrows Com pany for being willing to strike 03 copies of some of the inter esting illustrations made for their edition of the Jesuit Rela tions. In my book there are doubtless avoidable and unavoid able mistakes, and many of my friends will charge me with errors of judgment and Opinion. I cannot claim to have had access to unpublished documents, but I have tried to derive my facts and my inspirations from original published sources. The history of Canada was, during the period we have te viewed, indissolubly associated with that of Quebec, and it con tinned so to be during the remaining half century of the French Re'gime. Such books as Sir Gilbert Parker's In Old Quebec, and the more critical description of the city, Quebec Under Two Flags, by Messrs. Doughty and Dionne, blend of neces sity the history of the country with that of the old town well into the period when the possession of Canada passed beyond the control of France. These books and others in the English language tell the story concisely and in a small compass, but none of them are written with the grace and literary skill which distinguish the many memoirs and histories written by French and French Canadian writers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.