Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Part 55

R. HARCOURT SMITH, President.

HARRY WOODS, Secretary.

14th March, 1881.

The locket and chain which were presented to Mr. A. Holloway were made by Mr. G. Seifert, the locket having upon it a pair of crossed snow-shoes and tuque with a monogram of the club beautifully raised on the one side, and on the back, were engraved the following words: "Presented to Mr. Holloway by the members of Q. S. S. C., 24th March, 1881." The address was handsomely illuminated by the Nuns of the Good Shepherd Convent, and reflects great credit upon them for the artistic manner in which it is got up.

_FRENCH GOVERNORS OF CANADA_.

(LIST PREPARED BY FRED A. MCCORD)

Date of Commission From To

CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de Oct 15, 1612 Oct 15, 1612 July 20, 1629 CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de (a) ---- --- ---- May 23, 1633 Dec 25, 1635 Chateaufort, Marc Antoine Bras-de-fer (b) ---- --- ---- Dec 25, 1635 June 11, 1636 MONTMAGNY, Charles Huault de ---- --- ---- June 12, 1636 Aug 19, 1648 D'AILLEBOUST de Coulonge, Louis ---- --- ---- Aug 20, 1648 Oct 12, 1651 LAUZON, Jean de Jan 17, 1651 Oct 13, 1651 ---- --- 1656 Lauzon-Charny, Charles de ---- --- ---- ---- --- 1658 Sep 12, 1657 D'Ailleboust de Coulonge, Louis ---- --- ---- Sep 13, 1657 July 10, 1658 D'ARGENSON, Pierre de Voyer, Vicomte Jan 26, 1657 July 11, 1658 Aug 30, 1661 D'AVAUGOUR, Pierre Dubois, Baron ---- --- ---- Aug 31, 1661 July 28, 1663 MEZY, Augustin de Saffray May 1, 1663 Sep 15, 1663 May 5, 1665 COURCELLES, Daniel de Remy de (c) Mar 23, 1665 Sep 12, 1665 ---- --- 1672 FRONTENAC, Louis de Buade, Comte de Palluau et de Apr 7, 1672 Sep --- 1672 ---- --- 1683 LA BARBE, Le Febvre de (d) May 1, 1682 Oct 9, 1682 ---- --- 1685 DENONVILLE, Jacques Rene de Brisay, Marquis de Jan 1, 1685 July 30, 1685 Oct 14, 1689 FRONTENAC, Louis de Buade, Comte de Palluau et de May 15, 1689 Oct 15, 1689 Nov 28, 1698 Callieres, Louis Hector de ---- --- ---- Nov 29, 1698 Sep 13, 1699 CALLIeRES, Louis Hector Apr 20, 1699 Sep 14, 1699 May 26, 1703 de (d) Vaudreuil, Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de ---- --- ---- May 27, 1703 Sep 16, 1705 VAUDREUIL, Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de (d) Aug 1, 1703 Sep 17, 1705 Oct 10, 1725 Ramesay, Claude de ---- --- ---- ---- --- 1714 ---- --- 1716 Longueuil, Charles LeMoyne, (1st) Baron de ---- --- ---- ---- --- 1725 ---- --- 1726 BEAUHARNOIS, Charles, Marquis de (d) La Galissonniere, Rolland Jan 11, 1726 Sep 2, 1726 ---- --- 1747 Michel Barrin, Comte de (e) June 10, 1747 Sep 19, 1747 Aug 14, 1749 LA JONQUIeRE, Jacques Pierre de Taffanel, Marquis de Mar. 15, 1746 Aug 15, 1749 May 17, 1752 Longueuil, Charles LeMoyne, (2nd) Baron de ---- --- ---- May --- 1752 July --- 1752 DUQUESNE-DE MENNEVILLE, Marquis de Mar 1, 1752 July --- 1752 June 24, 1755 VAUDREUIL-CAVAGNAL, Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Jan. 1, 1755 June 25, 1755 Sep. 8, 1760

_ENGLISH GOVERNORS._

From To AMHERST, General Jeffrey (f) Sep. 8, 1760 ---- -- ---- MURRAY, General James Aug. 10, 1764 June 28, 1766 Irving, Paulus Aemilius June 30, 1766 Sep. 23, 1766 Carleton, Lt. Gov. Guy Sep. 24, 1766 Oct. 25, 1768 CARLETON, Guy (g) Oct. 26, 1768 June 26, 1778 Cramahe, Hon. Hector Theophilus Aug. 9, 1770 Oct. 10, 1774 HALDIMAND, Frederick June 27, 1778 Nov. 15, 1784 Hamilton, Lt. Gov. Henry Nov. 16, 1784 Nov. 1, 1785 Hope, Lt. Gov. Henry Nov. 2, 1785 Oct. 22, 1786 DORCHESTER, Baron (h) Oct. 23, 1786 July 11, 1796 Clarke, Lt. Gov. Alured Aug. 17, 1791 Sep. 24, 1793 Prescott, Lt. Gov. Robert July 12, 1796 Apr. 26, 1797 PRESCOTT, Robert Apr. 27, 1797 July 30, 1799 Milnes, Lt. Gov. Robert Sh.o.r.e (i) July 31, 1799 July 30, 1805 Dunn, Hon. Thomas July 31, 1805 Oct. 23, 1807 CRAIG, Sir James Henry Oct. 24, 1807 June 19, 1811 Dunn, Hon. Thomas June 20, 1811 Sep. 13, 1811 Prevost, Sir George Sep. 14, 1811 July 15, 1812 PREVOST, Sir George July 15, 1812 Apr. 4, 1815 ROTTENBURG, Major Gen. Francis de May 12, 1813 June 13, 1813 GLASGOW, Major Gen. George June 14, 1813 Sep. 25, 1813 Drummond, Sir Gordon Apr. 5, 1815 May 21, 1816 Wilson, Major Gen. John May 22, 1816 July 11, 1816 SHERBROOKE, Sir John Coape (j) July 12, 1816 July 29, 1818 RICHMOND, Charles, Duke of July 30, 1818 Aug. 28, 1819 Monk, Hon. James Sep. 20, 1819 Feb. 7, 1820 Maitland, Sir Peregrine (k) Feb. 8, 1820 Feb. 8, 1820 Monk, Hon. James Feb. 9, 1820 Mar. 16, 1820 Maitland, Sir Peregrine Mar. 17, 1820 June 18, 1820 DALHOUSIE, George, Earl of June 19, 1820 Sep. 7, 1828 Burton, Lt. Gov. Sir. Francis Nathaniel June 7, 1824 Sep. 16, 1825 Kempt, Sir James Sep. 8, 1828 Oct. 19, 1830 Aylmer, Matthew Whitworth Aylmer, Baron Oct. 20, 1830 Feb. 3, 1831 AYLMER, Matthew Whitworth Aylmer, Baron Feb. 4, 1831 Aug. 23, 1835 GOSFORD, Archibald Acheson, Earl of Aug. 24, 1835 Feb. 26, 1838 Colborne, Sir John Nov. 1, 1838 Jan. 16, 1839 DURHAM, John George Lambton, Earl of May 29, 1838 Oct. 31, 1838 Colborne, Sir John Nov. 1, 1838 Jan. 16, 1839 COLBORNE, Sir John Jan. 17, 1839 Oct. 18, 1839 SYDENHAM, Chs Ed. Poulett Thomson, Lord (l) Oct. 18, 1839 Sep. 19, 1841 _c.l.i.therowe_, Major Gen. John (m) Sep. 18, 1841 Sep. 18, 1841 Jackson, Sir Richard Downes Sep. 24, 1841 Jan. 11, 1842 BAGOT, Sir Charles Jan. 12, 1842 Mar. 29, 1843 METCALFE, Sir Charles Theophilus (n) Mar. 30, 1843 Nov. 25, 1845 Cathcart, Charles Murray, Earl of Nov. 26, 1845 Apr. 23, 1846 CATHCART, Charles Murray, Earl of Apr. 24, 1846 Jan. 29, 1847 ELGIN, James Bruce, Earl of Jan. 30, 1847 Dec. 18, 1854 _Rowan_, Major Gen. William (m) May 29, 1849 May 30, 1849 Rowan, Lieut. Gen. William Aug. 23, 1853 June 10, 1854 HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker Dec. 19, 1854 Oct. 24, 1861 Eyre, Sir William June 21, 1857 Nov. 2, 1857 Williams, Sir William Fenwick Oct. 12, 1860 Feb. 22, 1861 Monck, Charles Stanley, Viscount Oct. 25, 1861 Nov. 27, 1861 MONCK, Charles Stanley, Viscount (o) Nov. 28, 1861 Nov. 13, 1868 Michel, Sir John Sep. 30, 1865 Feb. 12, 1866 Windham, Sir Charles Ash Nov. 14, 1868 Nov. 30, 1868 Young, Sir John Dec. 1, 1868 Feb. 1, 1869 YOUNG, Sir John (p) Feb. 2, 1869 June 21, 1872 Doyle, Sir Charles Hastings June 22, 1872 June 24, 1872 DUFFERIN, Sir F. T. Blackwood, Earl of June 25, 1872 Oct. 18, 1878 O'Grady Haly, Lieut. Gen. William Oct. 12, 1874 Nov. 2, 1874 O'Grady Haly, Lieut. Gen. William May 15, 1875 Oct. 22, 1875 O'Grady Haly, Sir William Jan. 21, 1878 Feb. 6, 1878 Macdougall, Sir Patrick L. Oct. 19, 1878 Nov. 24, 1878 LORNE. Sir John D. S. Campbell, Marquis of Nov. 25, 1878 ---- -- ----

_NOTES_.

Names indented are those of administrators.

Except in the case of administrators, the date of the arrival at Quebec, wherever I have been able to ascertain it, is that given in the second column in the list of French Governors.

(a) Quebec was held by the English, under Louis Kirke, from July 20, 1629, to July 13, 1632, when it was restored to France. The colony was then governed by Emery de Caen and Duplessis Bochart, until Champlain's return, May 23, 1633.

(b) The date given in the second column is that of Champlain's death.

Chateaufort's administration began on the day of the interment, probably the 28th.

(c) The Marquis de Tracy, the King's _Lieutenant-General_ in America, arrived at Quebec, June 30, 1665, and was virtually the Governor of Canada till his departure, August 28, 1667.

(d) The date here given in the second column is that of the registration of the Governor's commission at Quebec.

(e) La Galissonniere was sent out to administer the Government during the captivity of La Jonquiere, who, on his way from France, had been made prisoner by the English.

(f) Although Amherst is usually placed first on the list of English Governors, it is well known that after the capitulation of Montreal be divided the province into three governments or districts, to each of which he appointed a Governor, and that he himself very shortly afterwards left the country and did not return. The Governors of these three districts, during what is commonly called the period of military rule, from Sept. 8, 1760, to Aug. 10, 1764, were as follows:

District of Quebec, Gen. James Murray Sep. 1760 to Aug. 1764.

District of Three Rivers, Col. Ralph Burton Sep. 1760 to May 1762.

Col. Fred. Haldimand May 1762 to Mar. 1763.

Col. Ralph Burton Mar. 1763 to Oct. 1763.

Col. Fred. Haldimand Oct. 1773 to Aug. 1764.

District of Montreal, Gen. Thomas Gage Sep. 1760 to Oct. 1763.

Col. Ralph Burton Oct. 1763 to Aug. 1764.

(g) Guy Carleton was made a Knight of the Bath on the 6th of July, 1776.

(h) Sir Guy Carleton was named Lord Dorchester on the 21st of August, 1786.

(i) Created a Baronet on the 14th of February, 1801.

(j) On the 12th of July, 1816, Sir John Sherbrooke took the oaths of office at Quebec, although he had previously, on the 8th of June, been sworn in at Halifax.

(k) Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of Upper Canada, was sworn in at Quebec, as Administrator of the Government of Lower Canada, on the 8th of February. He returned to Upper Canada next day; but came back to Quebec in March, and was again sworn in on the 17th.--_Quebec Mercury_.

(l) The Hon. C. Poulett Thomson was created Baron Sydenham and Toronto in 1840. The date given in the first column is that of his a.s.suming the Governors.h.i.+p of Lower Canada, of which province he was the last Governor. He was sworn in as Governor of the Province of Canada, on the 10th of February, 1841, when Upper and Lower Canada were united.

(m) Acted merely as Deputy of the Governor for the prorogation of parliament. The name is retained because it appears on other lists.

(n) Sir Charles Metcalfe was created Baron Metcalfe in January, 1845.

(o) Lord Monck was Governor of the Province of Canada until the first of July, 1867. On that day, the Dominion of Canada was proclaimed, and he was sworn in as the first Governor.

(p) Sir John Young was elevated to the peerage, with the t.i.tle of Lord Lisgar, on the 8th of October, 1870.

INDEX.

Abenaquis Indians, march with Arnold to Quebec.

Abercrombie, General, defeated by Montcalm.

Abraham, see Plains of.

Agariata, Mohawk chief hanged by De Tracy.

Agricultural society founded, names of members.

Americans, invade Canada; attack Quebec; anniversary celebration of; repulse of; centenary celebration; plan of attack upon Quebec; taken at Detroit and sent to Quebec; defeated at Detroit.

American flag, historical notice of.

Arms of the Dominion described.

Arnold, Benedict, wounded; centenary of defeat of; carried to General Hospital; account of his a.s.sault on Quebec; anniversary of his defeat; accompanied by Abenaquis Indians; imprisoned in Recollet Convent; his head quarters near the St. Charles; in possession of environs of Quebec.

Arnoux, A French surgeon, Montcalm carried to his house.

Ashe, Comr. E. D., on variation of Compa.s.s at Quebec.

Asylum, Female Orphan; Finlay; St Bridget's.

Audubon, visits Quebec.