[18] To Let. - That elegant house, No. 6 Port Louis Street, lately occupied
by H.R.H. Prince Edward, and at present by the Lord Bishop of Quebec. For
particulars, apply to Miss Mabane, or to Munro & Bell, Quebec. - 4th March,
1794 (Quebec Gazette, 1794.)
[19] Montgomery's House is now a much frequented stand for the sale of
cigars, candies, newspapers, &c., to tourists.
[20] William Brown, uncle to the Neilsons, was a Scotchman from
Philadelphia, who had been induced to print a journal in Quebec from the
representations and information he had collected from William Laing, a
Quebec merchant tailor, whom he had met in Scotland.
[21] Twenty-four years in advance of the London Times, founded in 1778,
but twelve years after the Halifax Gazette, published in Halifax, N.S.,
in March, 1762, by one John Bushnell.
[22] The first books printed in Quebec were: -
"Catechisme Montagnais," 1767.
"Lettre sur la Ville de Quebec," 1774.
"Cantique de Marseilles," 1776.
In Montreal: -
"Reglement de la Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpetuelle du Saint Sacrement
et de la Bonne Mort," Mesplet & Berger, 1776.
"Jonathan and David, a tragedy, a book of 40 pages," Mesplet & Berger,
1776.
"Officium Sacerdotum," Mesplet & Berger, 1777.
- (Montreal Prize Questions in Canadian History.)
[23] The mode of consulting a Roman lawyer was this: the lawyer was placed
on an elevated seat, the client, coming up to him said Licet consulere?
The lawyer answered, consule.
![Picturesque Quebec, By James Macpherson Le Moine
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[16] Histoire de l'Hotel-Dieu de Quebec (Mere Juchereau, 511.)
[17] Histoire de l'Hotel-Dieu, Casgrain, p. 81.
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