At The Time Of Napoleon's Continental Blockade, The English
Government, Seeing That The Baltic Was Closed For The Supply Of Timber For
The Navy, Gave Out A Large Contract To Messrs.
Henry and John Usborne - of
London - for masts and oak.
Usborne & Co., employed Mr. P. Paterson to
dress and ship this timber. A timber limit license, of portentous import,
authorizing the cutting of oak and masts for the navy in all British North
America, was issued. Under authority of this license, Mr. Paterson partly
denuded the shores of Lake Champlain as well as the Thousand Islands, of
their fine oak. Mr. Paterson was the first to float oak in rafts to
Quebec. He built a large mill at Montmorency, having exchanged his St.
George street house for the mill site at Montmorency. His mills have since
attained to great importance.
In the rear of (St. George - now) Hebert street loom out the lofty walls of
the Laval University, which received its Royal Charter in 1852. [48]
THE LAVAL UNIVERSITY.
The main edifice is 298 feet in length, five stories high; a plain,
massive structure of cut-stone, much improved in appearance since the
addition, in 1876, of the present superstructure, which relieves the
unbroken monotony of its form. The work is a great ornament not only to
the immense building itself, but to the city. The task of designing the
superstructure was entrusted to the taste and talent of J. F. Peachy,
architect. The superstructure is in the French mansard roof style, with
handsome cupolas on the east and west ends, surmounted with flag-staffs
and weather vanes.
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