Morton Lodge, For Many Years Was The Residence Of David Douglass Young,
Esquire, Once President Of The Quebec Bank, And Formerly A Partner Of The
Late George B. Symes, Esquire.
Mr. Young claimed, on the maternal side, as
ancestor, Donald Fraser, one of Fraser's (78th) Highlanders, a regiment
which distinguished itself at the taking of Quebec, whilst fighting under
Wolfe, on these same grounds.
Forming a portion of this estate, to the west, may be noticed a cosy
little nest, Bruce's Cottage, as it was formerly called - now
Bannockburn - surrounded on all sides by trees, lawns and flowers.
WESTFIELD.
"What, sir, said I," cut down Goldsmith's hawthorn bush, that supplies
so beautiful an image in the DESERTED VILLAGE! 'Ma foy,' exclaimed the
bishop (of Ardagh,) 'is that the hawthorn bush? then ever let it be
saved from the edge of the axe, and evil to him that would cut from it
a branch." - Howitt's Homes and Haunts of British Poets.
At Mount Pleasant, about one mile from St. John's Gate, a number of
agreeable suburban residences have sprung up, as if by enchantment, within
a few years. This locality, from the splendid view it affords of the
valley of St. Charles, the basin of the St. Lawrence and surrounding
country, has ever been appreciated. The most noticeable residence is a
commodious cut-stone structure, inside of the toll, erected there a few
years back by the late G. H. Simard, Esq., member for Quebec, and later,
purchased by the late Fred.
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