Picturesque Quebec, By James Macpherson Le Moine










































































































































 -  One hopes not.

    Be that as it may, the stone mason and savant Jean Guion had refused
    to do feudal - Page 626
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One Hopes Not.

Be that as it may, the stone mason and savant Jean Guion had refused to do feudal homage to "Monsieur de Beauport," and on the 30th July, 1640, six years after the date of the inscription, under sentence rendered by Governor de Montmagny, he was made to do so.

Who will decipher the I.H.S. - M.I.A. the letters at the top of the plate? Is there no defendant of the haughty Seignior of Beauport, Rob. Gifart, to give us his biography, and tell us of his sporting days; of the black and grey ducks, brant, widgeon, teal, snipe, and curlew, etc., which infested the marshy banks of the stream - the Ruisseau de l'Ours, on which he had located, first his shooting box, and afterwards his little fort or block-house, against Iroquois aggression? Dr. Gifart was a keen sportsman, tradition repeats. Did the locality get the name of Canardiere on account of the Canards, the ducks, he had bagged in his time? Who will enlighten us on all these points?

ENQUIRER.

Quebec, 8th April, 1881.

QUERY. - Would I. H. S. stand for Jesus Hominum Salvator? and M.I.A. for Maria-Josephus-Anna? - the Holy Family - asks Dr W. Marsden.

COUNT D'ORSONNENS LETTER

A monsieur J. M. LeMoine, president de la Societe Litteraire et Historique de Quebec, etc., etc, etc.

CHER MONSIEUR,. - Votre lettre du 1er avril, publiee dans le Morning Chronicle, en groupant, autour du premier Manoir canadien, des grands noms canadiens, des faits historiques et des traditions, semble vouloir nous faire regretter encore plus la perte d'un monument dont il ne reste plus qu'une plaque de plomb gravee sans art, avec une inscription sans orthographe.

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