I Have, However,
Seen Accounts Of The Early Settlements In The Eastern Townships, P.
Q., And In Different Portions Of Ontario, Which Were Full Of The
Romance Of Faith, Of Courage, And Of Perseverance."
THE ST.
LOUIS HOTEL
A sketch of this fashionable thoroughfare - St. Louis street - the
headquarters of the judiciary, barristers, politicians, etc., would be
incomplete without a mention of the chief trysting-place of travellers and
tourists for the last thirty years - the leading hostelry of Quebec. St.
Louis Hotel is made up of two or more private dwellings joined together.
That on the corner of Haldimand and St. Louis streets formerly was owned
as a residence by the late Edward Burroughs, Esq., P. S. C. Next to it
stood, in 1837, Schluep's Hotel - the Globe Hotel - kept by a German, and
where the military swells in 1837-8-9 and our jolly curlers used to have
recherche dinners or their frugal "beef and greens" and fixings. In
1848, Mr. Burroughs' house was rented to one Robert Bambrick, who
subsequently opened a second-class hotel at the corner of Ste. Anne and
Garden streets, on the spot on which the Queen's printer, the late Mr.
George Desbarats, built a stately office for the printing of the Canada
Gazette - subsequently sold on the removal of the Government to Ottawa
- now the Russell House. The Globe Hotel belonged to the late B. C.
A. Gugy, Esq. It was purchased by the late Messrs Lelievre & Angers,
barristers, connected with two or three adjacent tenements, and rented,
about 1852, to Messrs.
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