Duniere, Underneath Cape Diamond, The
Streets Carriere, Mont Carmel, Ste.
Genevieve, St. Denis, Des Grisons, are
all situated above St. Louis street" (Mr. Louis Duniere was M.P. in 1828.)
[108] Mr. T. P. Bedard sends us the following note on this street: - "Au
17eme siecle, la rue Sault-au-Matelot etait la rue commerciale par
excellence avec la rue Notre-Dame, c'etait la ou ce faisait toutes les
affaires, la rue St. Pierre actuelle etant alors envahie par l'eau durant
les grandes marees."
[109] Did the dog belong to Champlain? an antiquary asks us.
"Ad laevum fluit amnis S. Laurentii, ad dextram S. Caroli fluviolus. Ad
confluentem, Promontorium assurgit, Saltum Nautae vulgo vocant, ab
cane hujus nominis qui se alias ex eo loco praecipitem dedit." (Historia
Canadensis. - Creuxius, p. 204.)
[110] Francois de Bienville.
[111] In that early, dark, but not unhappy era of Quebec municipal
existence, in June, 1842, when the great novelist, Chas. Dickens,
perambulated our thoroughfares and surveyed our battle fields, did the
author of "Pickwick," in his rambles, meet in this odoriferous lane any of
those "roving, gentlemanly, philosophic, republican" porkers, such as had
crossed his path in the "empire city" of the West, and which, as typical
New York pigs, have since become famous. "A select party," says he, "of
half a dozen gentlemanly hogs have just now turned the corner."
"Here is a solitary swine lounging homeward by himself. He has only one
ear, having parted with the other to vagrant dogs in the course of his
city rambles. But he gets on very well without it, and leads a roving,
gentlemanly, vagabond life, somewhat answering to that of our club men at
home. He leaves his lodgings every morning at a certain hour, throws
himself upon the town, gets through the day in some manner quite
satisfactory to himself, and regularly appears at the door of his own
house again at night, like the mysterious master of Gil Blas. He is a free
and easy, careless, indifferent kind of pig, having a very large
acquaintance among other pigs of the same character, whom he rather knows
by sight than conversation, as he seldom troubles himself to stop and
exchange civilities, but goes grunting down the kennel, turning up the
news and small talk of the city, in the shape of cabbage-stalks and offal,
and bearing no tails but his own, which is a very short one, for his old
enemies the dogs have been at that too, and have left him hardly enough to
swear by. He is in every respect a Republican pig, going wherever he
pleases, and mingling with the best society, on an equal if not superior
footing, for every one makes way when he appears, and the haughtiest give
him the wall if he prefer it. He is a great philosopher, and seldom moved,
unless by the dogs before mentioned." - (Dickens' American Notes, p. 38.)
[112] CANADA'S ROYAL VISITORS - WHO HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 1787. - "Canada has
been honoured with visits from the following Royal personages:
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