Old Memories: Amusing and Historical

Old Memories: Amusing and Historical

To my Subscribers and the Public Sequel to Old Congregational Convent St. Louis Hotel The Quebec Bank Horse Boats and Ice Boats Beaumont, St. Thomas St. Michel A Chronicle of St. Michel Second Visit to Roberval, Lake St. John St. Leon Springs My Second Visit to St. Leon Springs St. Raymond St. Augustin St. Andr Les Eboulements Society in Quebec Fifty Years Ago Spencer Grange Society in 1854 New Year's Day, 1840 A Point of Honor Country Post Offices Forty and Fifty Years Ago The Subterranean Passages of the Citadel of Quebec The First St. Patrick's Society in Quebec Sillery Church St. Matthew's Chapel Bishop Hamilton St. Patrick's Cemetery Mount Hermon Cemetery In Memoriam November To the Oyster You have been so good to me, in purchasing, within a few weeks, five hundred copies of a feuilleton, only intended for private circulation, I should like to show my appreciation, by catering to your desire for information regarding our dear old city, Quebec; but what can I do? My learned friend, James Macpherson LeMoine, Esq., with his wonderful knowledge of facts, so exhausted the subject in his excellent and beautifully got up book, "Picturesque Quebec," I am utterly overwhelmed. Until I began to study the matter I was quite ignorant that he had written so fully on these matters, so I can only play Boswell to his Johnson, and as without Boswell many of the sayings of the immortal Johnson would have been lost, I too may have my use in recording crumbs of information, interesting and instructive, though lacking the dignity of history. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53403
Author: MacPherson, Daniel
Release Date: Oct 29, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English