A singular distrust exists
everywhere. The exchange of - - and other good houses is refused.
Those who want to remit to Paris have to get their specie carried.
6th March, 1760.
The hospital of Toulouse is just short of nine millions. Bankrupts
everywhere merchants and others.
St. Peter street has become the general headquarters of the most important
commerce, and of life insurance and fire assurance offices. The financial
institutions are there proudly enthroned: the Bank of Montreal (founded in
1818 and incorporated in 1828), Bank of Quebec (founded in 1817), the
Union Bank (founded in 1865), the Banque Nationale (founded in 1873), the
Bank of British North America (founded in 1836, incorporated in 1840,
opened at Quebec in 1837), the Merchants' Bank (founded in 1861).
In this street resided, in 1774, the Captain Bouchette, who, in the
following year, in his little craft, Le Gaspe, brought us back our
brave Governor, Guy Carleton; M. Bouchard, merchant, M. Panet, N.P. (the
father of His Lordship, Bishop B.C. Panet), as also M. Boucher, Harbor
Master of Quebec, "(who was appointed to that post by the Governor, Sir R.
S. Milnes, on the recommendation of the Duke of Kent.)." [89] Boucher had
piloted the vessel, having on board the 7th Regiment, (the Duke's), from
Quebec to Halifax.
The office in which the Quebec Morning Chronicle has been published
since 1847, belonged in 1759 to M. Jean Tache, "President of the
Mercantile Body," "an honest, and sensible man," as appears by Memoirs
sur le Canada, (1749-60). One of our first poets, he composed a poem
"On the Sea." The ancestor of the late Sir E. P. Tache, and of the
novelist, Jos.
