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Title: Old Quebec
The Fortress of New France

Author: Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan

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Language: English

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OLD QUEBEC

The Fortress of New France

by

GILBERT PARKER and CLAUDE G. BRYAN

With Illustrations

[Illustration: _Major General James Wolfe
from a scarce contemporary print engraved by R. Houston_]

New York
The Macmillan Company
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
1903

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1903,
by The Macmillan Company.

Set up, electrotyped, and published September, 1903. Reprinted
November, 1903.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS
PAGE

NOTE xvii

PRELUDE xix

CHAPTER I

EARLY VOYAGES 1

CHAPTER II

THE ERA OF CHAMPLAIN 19

CHAPTER III

THE HEROIC AGE OF NEW FRANCE 44

CHAPTER IV

"AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM" 66

CHAPTER V

ROYAL