: Old Memories: Amusing and Historical by MacPherson Daniel Mrs - Québec (Québec) Description and travel

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To my Subscribers and the Public Sequel to Old Congregational Convent St. Louis Hotel The Quebec Bank Horse Boats and Ice Boats Beaumont, St. Thomas St. Michel A Chronicle of St. Michel Second Visit to Roberval, Lake St. John St. Leon Springs My Second Visit to St. Leon Springs St. Raymond St. Augustin St. Andr? Les Eboulements Society in Quebec Fifty Years Ago Spencer Grange Society in 1854 New Year's Day, 1840 A Point of Honor Country Post Offices Forty and Fifty Years Ago The Subterranean Passages of the Citadel of Quebec The First St. Patrick's Society in Quebec Sillery Church St. Matthew's Chapel Bishop Hamilton St. Patrick's Cemetery Mount Hermon Cemetery In Memoriam November To the Oyster

MY FRIENDS,

You have been so good to me, in purchasing, within a few weeks, five hundred copies of a feuilleton, only intended for private circulation, I should like to show my appreciation, by catering to your desire for information regarding our dear old city, Quebec; but what can I do? My learned friend, James Macpherson LeMoine, Esq., with his wonderful knowledge of facts, so exhausted the subject in his excellent and beautifully got up book, "Picturesque Quebec," I am utterly overwhelmed. Until I began to study the matter I was quite ignorant that he had written so fully on these matters, so I can only play Boswell to his Johnson, and as without Boswell many of the sayings of the immortal Johnson would have been lost, I too may have my use in recording crumbs of information, interesting and instructive, though lacking the dignity of history.

Yours truly, CHARLOTTE HOLT GETHINGS MACPHERSON

SEQUEL TO "REMINISCENCES OF OLD QUEBEC," BY MRS. DANIEL MACPHERSON.

My first recollection is that of being drawn in a child's carriage by old Germain, messenger of the Quebec Bank , to the old convent, formerly occupying the site of McCall, Shehyn & Co.'s store at the foot of Mountain Hill in St. Peter Street, Quebec. This convent has been non-existant for forty-seven years. Its community now reside in St. Joseph Street, St. Roch's. When this convent was there, there was no St. Peter Street, there were no wharves, and an old sister told me the batteau men often struck their sails against their convent. I remember my father often called at the convent to take me out boating on the St. Lawrence River that lapped its shores, for the lower town of Quebec was then a delightful residence for Quebec people, only the military then residing in the Upper Town. Applying for information about this old convent to Ville Marie, the Mother House of this order, I received the following letter from one of the ladies:

CONGREGATION DE NOTRE DAME,

Montreal, October 10, 1890.

Madam,

As I am obliged to absent myself, I have only time to give the year of the present foundation at Quebec. The first house was in the Upper Town, established in 1688 under the direction of the venerable Mother Bourgeois. This house was transferred to the Lower Town in 1692, under Mons. de St. Valli?re, and in 1844 the convent of the Lower Town not being any more convenient, the sisters went and fixed themselves in St. Roch's under Monseigneur Signai and the Rev. Cur? Mr. Charest. Rev. M?re St. Madeleine was Superioress of the Congregation of Notre Dame.

I am sorry not to be able to give you further details.

Your humble servant, Sr. St. Alexis de St. Joseph.

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