On The Northern Angle Of This Old Tenement You Now Read
"Ste.
Famille street."
St. Stanislas street, the western boundary of the ancient estate of the
Jesuits - on the eastern portion of which their college was built in 1637 -
owes its saintly nomenclature to the learned order - no doubt desirous of
handing down to posterity an enduring souvenir of a valiant ascetic,
though youthful member of the fraternity. Its northern end reaches at
right angles to Ste. Helene street in a line with the old tenement
recently occupied by the late Narcisse Constantin Faucher, Esq.,
Barrister - recently leased by the late Lieut.-Col. John Sewell, one of Sir
Isaac Brock's officers at Queenstown Heights in 1812 In 1835 it was the
home of a Mrs. Montgomery. That year it was burglarized in a somewhat
romantic - shall we say - humane manner by Chambers' murderous gang; the
aged and demure mistress of the house and her young maid servant being
rolled up in the velvety pleats of the parlor carpet and deposited gently,
tenderly and unharmed in the subterranean and discreet region of the
cellar, so that the feelings of either should not be lacerated by the
sight of the robbery going on above stairs.
Who will dare assert that among the sanguinary crew who in 1836, heavily
ironed, bid adieu to Quebec forever, leaving their country for their
country's good - in the British Brig Ceres, all bound as permanent
settlers to Van Dieman's Land - who will dare assert there was not some
Jack Sheppard, with a tender spot in his heart towards the youthful
Briseis who acknowledged Mrs. Montgomery's gentle sway.
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