[173] History of the Hotel-Dieu, Mere Juchereau.
[174] Abbe Faillon's Histoire de la Colonie Francaise en Canada, vol.
ii., p. 28.
[175] The hotel was later kept by one Pierre Letarte.
[176] Faillon cautions students to be careful not to confound the name of
the parish of Ste. Foye with the name "Sainte Foix" which M. Puiseaux had
given to his manor, higher up than Quebec on the shore of the St.
Lawrence. - Ibid, vol. iii, p. 319.
[177] "Jacques Brassier, Jean Tavernier, Nicholas Josselin, Etienne Robin
dit Desforges, Rene Douspin Jean LeComte, and Francois Crusson dit Pelate,
belonged to those immortal seventeen heroes who, led on by their brave and
youthful commander, Adam Dollard Desormeaux, shed their blood so nobly for
the salvation of the nascent colony at Montreal at the Longue Sault, on
21st May, 1660." - (See Faillon, vol. ii., p 416.)
[178] Manuscript owned by G. B. Faribault, Esq.
[179] Histoire de la Colonie Francaise en Canada, Faillon, vol. iii., p.
222.
[180] The insecurity produced in the colony at this period by the
incessant inroads of the Five Nations was such that several colonists were
on the eve of, and some did, return to France.
"Les familles francaises eparses sur les bords du St. Laurent, se
trouvaient exposees a des dangers continuels.
