The story we have translated, under the title of The Canadians of Old, was published in 1862. It is accompanied in the original by a mass of curious information, in the shape of notes and _addenda_, such as would hardly interest the general reader. They will more than repay, however, the attention of any one who wishes to study the French-Canadian people as they were in their early days. The story itself has the air of being the product of a happy leisure. The style is quaint and unhurried, with no fear of the printer's devil before its eyes. The stream of the narrative, while swift enough and direct enough at need, is taught to digress into fascinating cross-channels of highly colored local tradition, or to linger felicitously in eddies of feast and song. The work begun in Les Anciens Canadiens De Gaspé carried to completion in his second and last composition, the Mémoires, published in 1866. As the former work is a vivid epitome of life at the _seigneuries_ and among the _habitants_ of those days, so the latter reproduces and fixes for us the picturesque effects of life in the city of Quebec itself in the generation or two succeeding the conquest--a period during which the French-Canadian _noblesse_ yet maintained, about the person of the English governor, something of the remembered splendor of the old vice-regal court. C. G. D. R. _Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1890._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE +Foreword+ ix I. +D'Haberville and Cameron of Lochiel+ 19 II. +A Night with the Sorcerers+ 31 III. +La Corriveau+ 45 IV. +The Breaking up of the Ice+ 56 V. +A Supper at the House of a French-Canadian Seigneur+ 76 VI. +D'Haberville Manor House+ 99 VII. +The May-Feast+ 115 VIII. +The Feast of St. Jean-Baptiste+ 124 IX. "+The Good Gentleman+" 137 X. +Madame D'Haberville's Story+ 154 XI. +The Burning of the South Shore+ 167 XII. +A Night Among the Savages+ 180 XIII. +The Plains of Abraham+ 198 XIV. +The Shipwreck of the Auguste+ 213 XV. +Lochiel and Blanche+ 228 XVI. +The Family Hearth+ 254 XVII. +Conclusion+ 269 FOREWORD.