Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 30367-h.htm or 30367-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30367/30367-h/30367-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30367/30367-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/oldquebecfortres00parkuoft 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 GOVERNMENT 85 CHAPTER VI THE NOBLESSE AND THE PEOPLE 95 CHAPTER VII FRONTENAC AND LA SALLE 110 CHAPTER VIII FIRE, MASSACRE, AND SIEGE 134 CHAPTER IX THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY 159 CHAPTER X BORDER WARFARE 175 CHAPTER XI THE BEGINNING OF THE END 187 CHAPTER XII LIFE UNDER THE _ANCIEN RÉGIME_ 218 CHAPTER XIII DURING THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR 246 CHAPTER XIV "HERE DIED WOLFE VICTORIOUS" 268 CHAPTER XV MURRAY AND DE LÉVIS 299 CHAPTER XVI THE FIRST YEARS OF BRITISH RULE 325 CHAPTER XVII THE FIFTH SIEGE 342 CHAPTER XVIII SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROGRESS 364 CHAPTER XIX THE STORY OF THE GREAT TRADING COMPANIES 394 CHAPTER XX THE NEW CENTURY 422 CHAPTER XXI THE MODERN PERIOD 443 APPENDICES 473 INDEX 479 LIST OF PLATES