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It fol : En ad : i g I j A } : i 5 ii ih ii pl E f li Bi § il i g i i i : ! Coot tol Erp rtp BOA Our Most Picturesque City aleanle eileen HE first white man who is known to have visited the distriet where Quebec now tands, was Jacques Car- but Quebec, of origin to Sam- tier, in 1535 course, its uel de Champlain. Champlain was native of the small French port of Brouage on the Bay of Bis- cay, and' ffom his carliest boyhood was very much drawn towards a career of adventure. He served in the army of Henry IV. and took part in the struggles in. Brittany under Jean d'Aumont, Francois de St. Lue, and Charles de Brissac. Then, at the end of the great League Wars, when the army of the League was disband- ed, young Champlain went with his ufcle, who was in charge of the transports conveying the Spanish allies back to their own country. He landed at Cadiz, and, being possessed with the spirit of adventure, joined an expedition which was setting sail for the West Indies, reached the coast of Mexico, penetrated far into the country, saw everything that was to be seen, and, according to his cys tom, made record of all he saw. That was in 1599, and some three years later, after he had returned to France, he se. sail for the then littie- known country of Canada. Once there, he established friendly rela- tions with the Indians, explored the St. Lawrence to the rapids above Montreal, and, some five years later, founded the colony at Quebec, giving it its present name, Quebec grew slowly. Champlain himself was ever more of an explor- er than a colonizer, and, some twenty years after its foundation, it had but two permanently settled families, with a strange shifting population of monks, officials, and fur traders. Then again, the colony was viewed with scant favor by the British, so scant, indeed, that at last the authorities in London determin- ed to seize these ill-defended French possessions, Three ships were ac- cordingly sent out under letters of marque, eommanded by David, Lewis, and Thomas Kirke, and Que- bec, already reduced to sore straits, was compelled to surrender. Cham- plain was taken to England as a prisoner, but when Canada was re- stored to_the French, as it was by. the "treaty of Germain-en-Laye, in 1633, Champlain returned to his post of governor of the 'New France." When the colony was created a royal province, in 1663, Quebec became the capital. The city's next great adventure owes a | Was with the colonists of New Eng- land. In those days, France and England were almost perpetually at war with one another, and the war was invariably continued in any part of the world where Frenchmen and Englishmen came in contact. So, in 1690, when the wars of the Protest- ant succession were at their height, Sir William Phips, the Governor of Massachusetts, determined upon the | Quebec. | | i | { | | { ambitious scheme of repeating the exploits of Sir David Kirke, in 1629, by capturing the French colony of Sir William accordingly fitted up a fleet and army in Now Edgland and moved against Quebec, only to meet with defeat at the hand | of the French governor, the famous Louis de Buade, Comte de Fron- tenac. Once again, in 1711, a great British expedition was sent against it under Sir Hovenden Walker, but this one was shipwrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and France remain- ed in undisturbed possession until the eventful year of 1759. The year 1759, of course, marks the great epoch in Canadian history. Once again, England and France were in the midst of a great struggle, the Seven Years' War. The American campaigns of that war had hitherto been of the usual spasmodic charac- ter, but after Amherst had captured Louisville, in 17568, the various cam- paigns were co-ordinated. Amherst himself was to lead an expedition out of New England against Mont- real by way of Lake Champlain, whilst to the young British general, James Wolfe, was intrusted the cap- ture of Quebec, The story of Wolfe's famous attack om the city, how, at first, he failed at all points, and fin- ally, as a forlorn hope, le¢ his men up the steep footpath from "Wolfe's Cove" to the summit of the Plains of Abraham; how, next morning, "one perfect volley' won the day for the English: and how the two great rival generals, Wolfe and Montcalm, fell within a few hours of one an- other, is one of the enics of modern military history. Thereafter Quebec's history was: uneventful. To-day, with a population of some 80,000, it is still Canada's most picturesque city. i British Columbia Shipbuilding. | i f The steel steamer War Dog, the first ship of its type to. be built in British Columbia, was recently launched at Vancouver. The War Dog, with a length of three hundred and fifteen feet, is also the first steel argo vessel to be built ii that prove 16% ince. The contract was placed by a Japanese steamship company through an English pi Since the steamer the Musquash River below Bala, | An Interesting Outsider on Our At- Brittany; France, where much 'work? SEASWEPT SABLE ISLAND. 'lantic Coast, One hundred apd eight miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, and lashed by the terrific storms of the Atlantic Ocean, lies Sable Island. It is one of the most interesting outriders of the whole Atlantic coast, and com- stitutes not so much an asset as an international perplexity. The battering of wind and wavo has greatly reduced the island area, substituting here and there 'hidden sand bars for what was visible dry land but a few years before, To mariners, Sable Island represents a constantly increasing danger, de- spite the best efforts of the Cana dian Marine Department with mod. ern light houses and sound signals. Ia 19071 -the late Dr. Saunders, as director of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, took steps to prevent the destruction of the island by planting out 80,000 trees and shrubs. The lack of success has probably put an end to all efforts to offset the dis- integration of the remaining area. In reply to a question of the Forestry Journal, Dr. J. H. Grisdale, director of the Central Experimental Farm, states that no work in planting on Sable Island, subsequent to that de- scribed in this article, has been done and that "very little success is ex- pected from planting vegtation on this very exposed ind windy island." It is likely that the' task will have to be undertaken &ventually by en- gineering devices, On Sable Island no trees grow nat- urally, It is formed entirely of white sand, and lies about 163 miles from Halifax. Its area has been considerably re- duced by the action of wind and water. The present length of the island is about twenty-one miles, and its width, at its widest point, some- what over a mile. Early surveys &ave the length of the island as forty miles, and its width two miles and more. Dangerous shoals and sand- bars extend on all sides, and the strong currents from north and south often carry vessels out of their course, while, in addition to this, fogs are frequent, and wrecks are many. The planting was undertaken at the request of the Marine Depart- ment, chiefly with the object of pre- venting the damage done to the is- land by the wind, for the further the destruction of the island is carried, the greater becomes the danger from shoals and sand-bars, The choice of species to be planted was based largely on observations made by Dr. Saunders on a visit to in the reclaiming of sand-dunes has been done. ' The first plantation was made on a sandy bluff near the north shore, fairly well covered with the common sand-binding grass, the trees being planted two-and-a-half to three feet apart each way in a soil composed of pure sand. One considerable area, to which the name of Courdeau Park was given, was found to be covered to the depth of several inches with a black, peaty soil, mixed with sand and underlaid with pure sand. On this were rowing common juniper, cranberry, wax myrtle, blueberry, wild rose, and other plants. The planting was completed on June 17. Artificial fertilizers were used to some extent, these comprising nitrate of soda, muriate of potash, super- phosphate of lime, and quickliime. The climate of the island is not ex- treme. During the years 1898 to 1901 (inclusive) the highest temper- ature registeréd by the thermometer was 78 degrees Fahrenheit. The winds, however, are very high and constant and gales are frequent, i A danger to be apprehended is | that the surface of the island may be wholly swept away (as has already happened in the case of a large part of the original island), leaving an immense area of submerged shoals. In that case the.danger to passing vessels would be as great as now, and the possibilities of rescue of shipwrecked persons (with the life- saving station gone) would be reduc- ed to a minimum. | Three years ago, the Canadian Forestry Journal, touching upon the failure of the first experiments at Sable Island, asked: "Is not such a danger worth the spending of many thousand dollars to avoid? On similar plantations (similar, at least, as' regards the problems presented by natural con- ditions) 'France has spent several millions of dollars, and the single State of Massachuetts some hundreds of thousands. "In the problem presented by Sable Island not only do property considerations enter, but considera- tions involving the saving of human life. At the least the subject is worthy of continued and persistent experiment, and it is to be hoped that | the authorities will not rest satisfied, oF torpid, in consequence of the fail. | ure of this one atte nt." To Train Americans, A party of Canadian officers in France will assist in training a num- T of reserve officers and graduates of Plattsburg and other schools in the United States. Instruction of this contingent will be begun in a require two months of intensive grounding in the practical appMca- tion of theories they have learned. EE A ORE LA days. 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