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"That There Were Not Any Victualls Or Ordinance, Sustenance For Men In The
Said Forte At The Time Of Taking It, The Men In The Same Having Lived By
The Space Of Two Months Before Upon Nothing But Rootes." (THE CONQUEST OF
CANADA, 1629, By Kirke, P. 76-7.)
[36] A detailed account of the picturesque interview between Count de
Frontenac and Sir Wm.
Phipps' envoy in 1690, will be found in Quebec
Past and Present, p. 122.
[37] This sketch of the old Chateau in 1804, now forms part of the
historical album of the writer, through the kindness of Mr. Parkman.
[38] "Toronto of Old," H. Scadding, D.D., Toronto, 1873, p. 122-3.
[39] The name of Lennox in 1819, was indeed a familiar one in the highways
and byways of old Stadacona. There were three brothers, we are told, sons
of the Duke; Lord Charles, Lord William Pitt, Lord Arthur Lennox; more
than one of them are said to have had a hand in some of the practical
jokes so much to the fancy of Quebec military men, barristers, &c, in
1819, some of whom still survive, demure grandfathers, at present.
[40] John Galt, novelist, dramatist, historian, the genial author of
"Lawrie Todd," "Annals of the Parish," "The Laird," "Stanley Buxton," "The
Radical," "Eben Erskine," "The Stolen Child," "Majolo," "Omen,"
"Kathelun," "Ringan Gilhaize," "Spaewife," "Sir Andrew Wylie," "Provost,"
"Entail," "Steamboat," "The Life of Byron," and other works. Born at
Irvine, in Ayrshire, on the 2nd May, 1779, died at Greenock, 11th April,
1839.
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