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the >sea, saw with ~agonized hearts, the
| forbidding hulk Of the Hceroy's ship
move of and leave them to their fate.
On the shores Of Newfoundland the
viceroy, the great Sieur de Roberval
pursued his way, there to meet the
master pilot Of his age, Jasques Cartier
and with him found a colony which
would perpetuate the name Of France
| In the New World"
DR. Robervars attempts at settlement
proved disastrous and the following
year he returned to France sailing past
the isle Of Demons-as it came to be
called-regardless Of the fate Of the ex-
lies they had left there.
Marguerite had seen a representation
Of the island in an old chart which
hung on the walls of the chateau in
Picardy, where she had lived with her
uncle. Devils, with horns, wings and
tails, stalked about and flew like bats
through the air; horrible monsters
floated in the waters: even the saw
ages hurried fearfully past. Basque
fishermen in search of cod had heard
strange sounds there-wailing voices,
groans, fiendish shouts, and bacchan-
allan revels-which caused them to
cross themselves and flee in terror.
Many g. time Marguerite had stood fas-
cinated before this picture. and had
lifted up her heart in thankfulness to
the Virgin that the great ocean rolled
between her and this haunted spot.
Yet it was here that she and her
lover, with no priest to consecrate
their union, established their home.
Their number was soon augmented by
the advent of child. But, after a few
months, death left Marguerite alone to
lowed out with her own hands the
graves Of her husband, child and nurse,
and then began struggle for life.
By day she roamed in search of game
with her gun over her shoulder; by
night she barricaded her cabin door to
keep out the bears that roamed the
island and the demons she thought she
saw peering through the 'chinks Of the
wall. Once she saw, far out at sea, a
canoe Of Indians approaching. But
their savage, painted faces and gleam-
ing tomahawks filled her with greater
terror than the demons, and she fled,
shrieking, to her cabin. The Indians,
too, turned swiftly back. They thought
her the wife of the Manitou, the source
Of all their ills.
Two years passed, and Marguerite
still remained alone upon the island
Her stores were long ago exhausted;
she was frequently obliged to bite the
fresh young twigs of the trees in lieu of
better food. One October day some Ma
loine fishermen, setting out from the
banks on the homeward journey, saw
smoke curling up from the shores of
the haunted island. They could dimly
discern the figure of woman, clad in
ragged skins. She was reckoning to
them. She might be an evil spirit,
Turing them to destruction. Then an
old sailor recalled the story of De
Roberval's niece, and they FASTENED to
the island. ::
Thus was Marguerite de Roberval
rescued, after an exile Of two years
and five months. Her uncle's wrath
still pursued her on her return to
France, and she was obliged to hide
herself in an obscure village until De
Roberval's second expedition to the
new world, from which he never re-
turned. After fear of his return was
quite over, she came from her seclu-
sion. and lived to good old age In
peace and happiness. 49,.
Such: was the history Of the first;
white woman resident Of Canada. -
In 1908 Champlain founded Quebec,
the first permanent settlement in Can
ada. One of the most prominent of the
emigrants who settled there was Louis
Hebert, whose wife, Dame Hebert, ac-
companied him among the first colon
lists who came to make New France
their home. Their daughter, Anne He
bert, married a young trader named
Stephen Conquest. This was the first
marriage ceremony performed in Can
ada, and it occurred two and a half
years earlier than the first marriage
celebrated in New England. Hebert's
second daughter married Monsieur
Couillard two years later, and many
prominent Canadian families claim de-
scent from Guillemette Couillard, whose
family name is perpetuated in Couil-
lard street, one of the ancient streets
of Old Quebec.
The Sieur Hebert took up a tract of
land just outside the fort and was
probably the first farmer Of New
France. He prospered, and when Que
bee capitulated to the English, in 1929,
the Heberts were among those who
accepted the victors' offer Of twenty
crowns apiece to all the French colo
nists who. would remain. They had
already a well-built and substantial
farm house, gardens and grain fields.
The Hebert homestead was a rendez-
vous for the Recollect friars, whom
Champlain brought over to Christian
ize the Indians. The Huron Indians
were also frequent visitors, and were
allowed to warm themselves at the
kitchen fire, though the dame COM
planned she never dared trust them out
of her sight for they stole with their
feet as we'll as with their hands,
When, in 1882 the treaty of st. Ger
main was signed, which again placed
all Canada under the lilies of France,
and Cardinal Richelieus expedition
sailed up the st. Lawrence to the rocky
promontory Of Quebec, the only thrifty
house in the place was the Hebert