Genevieve) And
There Beheld The First Frigate All In A Blaze, Very Shortly Afterwards A
Black Smoke Issuing From The Second, Which Blew Up And Afterwards Took
Fire." On The 4th August Several Bomb-Shells Of 80 Lbs.
Fell on St. Roch.
We read, that on the 31st August, two soldiers were hanged at three
o'clock in the afternoon, for having stolen a cask of brandy from the
house of one Charland, in the St. Roch quarter.
In those times the General
(or the Recorder) did not do things by halves. Who was, this Charland of
1759? Could he be the same who, sixteen years afterwards, fought so
stoutly with Lieut. Dambourges at the Sault-au-Matelot engagement? Since
the inauguration of the English domination, St. Roch became peopled in a
most rapid manner, we now see there a net-work of streets, embracing in
extent several leagues.
The first steep hill past the Y. M. C. Association Hall - formerly Gallows
Hill, (where the luckless David McLane was disembowelled, in 1797, for
levying war against the King of Great Britain), and leading from St. John
street without to that not over-straight thoroughfare, named after the
second Bishop of Quebec - St. Vallier street - borrows its name from
Barthelemy Coton, who in days of yore closed his career in Quebec at the
advanced age of 92 years. Can anyone tell us the pedigree of Barthelemy
Coton? To the French portion of the inhabitants it is known as Cote a
Coton, whilst the English portion still continue to surround it,
unopportunely we think, with the unhallowed traditions of a lugubrious
past and call it Gallows Hill.
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