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...English festivities, including the bringing in of the Yule log, the processional bearing of the boar's head, and the baron of beef, are being revived this Christmas and New Year's season at the Chateau Frontenac, on the site of the ancient Fort Saint Louis, in Quebec...
...efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from the muzzle of guns, and later his refusal to issue whiskey to the ranks, forced his retirement as Governor of Gibraltar. Visitors to Quebec still are shown the summer house where his West Indian slaves are supposed to have held voodoo orgies. He drank a great deal. Mounting debts kept him out of Britain most of his life. In 1818 he married the sister of Leopold I of Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred...
...Canada those who were left were divided up?some to Montreal and Quebec, some to the Indian villages. When Mrs. Lygon had to leave her husband lying at the point of death, she gave up, let herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield...
Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount Allenby, stiff, soldierly hero of Palestine, reached Quebec bound for a reunion with Canadian War comrades at Toronto. Asked about another war, Lord Allenby pronounced: "The situation is like a number of small boys calling one another names across the street. One says, 'You come on over and fight in my yard.' The other says, 'You come on over and fight in mine.' The result, of course, is that nobody fights...
...Mary, grandmother of Jesus, whose day is July 26. U. S. worshippers flocked to Manhattan, to St. Anne's, her national shrine, or to St. Jean de Baptiste, where a fragment of her wristbone is credited with many a miracle of healing. Other U. S. pilgrims traveled to Quebec where they joined Canadians in kneeling at famed St. Anne de Beaupr...