The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-02

CHATEAU FRoNTENAC FROM LOWER TOWN.
to General Montgomery, modelled after
the one in frcnt of st. Paurs church III
New York, will be erected ON the spot
where the generals remains lay for &c
years before their removal to the Ameri-
can metropolis. Altogether the week
beginning Jan. 90 promises TO furnish a
festival of unusual interest and magnifi
cence.
But aside from the novel spectacles Ill
ice and snow, the picturesque pageantry
and mimic warfare. there is much to in
terest American visitors in quaint old
Quebec The city is situated ON a high
ridge ON the north shore of the St. Law
renee river and from its impregnable
position has been called the Gibraltar of
America 1t is divided into Upper and
Lower Town.
A large part of Upper Town is taken
up with the grounds and buildings of re-
ligious societies and corporations, promi-
nent among them being the site of the
Jesuit college, founded in 1888. The sub
urbs of st. Louis and st. John extend
southwark and eastward. Lower Town
takes in the suburbs of st. Roch, st. Sau-
veus and Boisseauville, extending to the
junction of the st. Lawrence and St.
Charles rivers. In this lower town, near
the wharves, is the market place, III
which can best be seen every type of the
Canadian, from the country folk to resi-
dents of the city. Women are in the
majority, and the French and English
languages are mingled IN the babel of
tongues. The most original characters
are the peasants, who are genuine ones
in gray homeopathic men wearing
long legged moccasins and felt hats,
while their wives look easy and COM
Portable in straight skirts, loose sacks
and broad hats. all homemade.
One of the striking contrasts between
ancient and modern Quebec that impress
the visitor is the view of Chateau From
tenac from Lower Town. This magnifi-
cent building is one of the newest struc-
lures In Quebec and is surrounded by
houses moss covered and gray with age.
Near the market is the little Church of
Notre Dame des VICTORIES, one of the
first churches built in America, the walls
dating about 1900. Quebec's first build
ing and the first garden in Canada are
also near, and i'll the same locality Cham
plain founded Quebec by erecting his
house in 1903. 1t was on Champlain
street that the houses were demolished
and people killed and injured by the
landslide from Dufferin terrace few
years ago.
ST. Roch IS the pure French quarter.
The houses are generally small and of
irregular shape to suit the street angles
and quiet tastes of the occupants. But.
although small, they are most invariably
built of BRICK or stone and have a com
Portable, substantial look, with no sug
gestion of the shanty. Nearly all the
shops and stores are under the living
rooms of those carrying on business.
There are scarcely any signs on the
streets. Even the corner grocery storr
does not blaze with golden letters. 1t dis
plays in q window broom or at the
door bunch of birch bark.
Midwinter is the city's grandeSt sea
son. There are blockades of snow, trees
are bare and country houses buried be
meath the white mantle, but the people
light their fires, and all is sociability.
The market place is thronged with
sleighs and peasants in furs. A snowy
twilight gives Quebec still more strik-
ing aspect. The distance is hidden in
the gray obscurity; gables, dormers and
chimneys loom out in single groups, and
the view of picturesque individual forms
cha iSes suddenly at every step. The
place IS muffied and yelled. People creep
into their collars, bow their heads or
even turn their backs TO the wind to get
breath as they hurry on to shelter. The
women of Quebec are always attractive
from their healthy and wholesome APP
pearance. They are met at all hours go
ing TO or returning from mass or con-
fession. Their manners are unobtrusive.
thsir voices sweet and low and their
bearing toward the opposite sex modest.
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