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...three-hour battle captured an 18-gun French frigate. He is credited with raising the first British flag over conquered Montreal. In the American Revolution, he served in battle against the American Continentals in the New Jersey campaign, later rose to become a lieutenant general and commander of Quebec. But as an artist Davies was almost unknown until a portfolio of his watercolors turned up in 1953 m England, in the Earl of Derby's old library at Knowsley Hall. The New York Public Library bought the U.S. scenes, and Canada's National Gallery snatched up the Canadian...
...done in 1758, one depicting the burning of Grymross, Nova Scotia, by British troops and another a detailed drawing of the new British fortifications with key points carefully labeled: "A. Fort Frederick. B. Huts built by the Rangers. C. Passage up the River. Davies' later views of Montreal, Quebec and Halifax are valued as the first to be recorded in Canadian history...
...facilities, v. $300 a ton for entirely new capacity. The company is equally well fixed for raw materials. It has contracted for one-quarter of the rich ore that is already trickling in (and will pour in via the St. Lawrence Seaway by 1959) from the vast Labrador-Quebec fields, owns ore mines in four U.S. states and Liberia, operates its own coal mines and limestone quarries...
...seventh of nine-his mother was never quite sure which. A grocer's apprentice as a boy, he later manned coal barges, enlisted in the Royal Navy and worked his way up, most notably as a cartographer in Wolfe's campaign up the St. Lawrence against Quebec. Cook was 40 when he was chosen to skipper the Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti and observe the transit of Venus "over the disk...
...better soon. That prospect was more than agreeable to Mme. St. Laurent, who worried about her lawyer-husband's late entry into politics (at 59) and has never made any secret of her willingness to quit Ottawa for a quieter life at the family home in Quebec City...