The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-06
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QUEBEc's BATTLEFIELDS.
A Vast Sum to Be Spent in Beautifying
The Walled City

Canadians OF English or French origin
are embracing with equal enthusiasm
the proposal to consecrate the battle
fields, OF the Plains Of Abraham and Ste.
Toy next year when the Quebec tercea.
tenarv is celebrated. In 1s4g the Brit
ish soldiers serving in Canada under Sir
benjamin d'Urban contributed a days
pay to erect column in memory of
Wolfe on the spot where he died in the
hour of that victory which made this
country British The amount OF money
thus raised was small and tho monument
insignificant.
The meaning Of that final grapple be
tween the British and the French, how
ever, grows yearly in Significance, and
there is now taking definite form a plan
to give permanent expression to the
honor in which Canadians hold Wolfe
and Montcalm alike Today as the inn
migrant comes up the river to Quebec
the first object he sees ~ the jail on the
promontory. 1t is proposed now to re-
move the prison and the Ross Rifle fac
tory, and to set up there oyerlookinr the
river colossal Angel Of Welcome; to
buy land enough TO make certain the
preservation Of the battlehelds as a ma
tional park. to build fireproof museum
in which to store records and relics OF
historic value, and to construct a mag
nifcent driveway from the citadel along
the edge Of the cliff overhanging the St
Lawrence to the place where Wolfe's
forlorn hope climbed the height, along
the road over which Wolfe marched bis
men before they drployed to take up
their line Of two deep upon the plains
bf Abraham, Oh through the bAttlehelI
of Ste. Foy, where Montcalm Was Fic-
torious, and back to Quebec along the
heights overlooking the beautiful valley
OF the Ste. Charles
These are ambitious plans, but they
should commend themselves 10 all Cara.
dams, for their realization will but fit-
tingly proclaim and perpetuate tine event
which made this Canadian soil holy.
Canada became British, but the French
received lasting guarantee that their
speech and their religion would be pre-
served to Them. They do well to honor
that gallant gentleman Montcaln He
had beaten the British in several en-
counters, and it was no fault Of bis that
he did not win in the last great struggle
His bearing in the hour Of defeat AMI
death viii ever be source Of pride to
the French. AS for Wolfe, be s every
sehoolboy's nero, and the suggc sti0n that
school children Throughout Canada, II
not the empire, should contriSute their
pennies toward the plan to make Quebec
national shrine, is q natural aud pTae-
teal one,
A great sum viii Ne spent hi ceIebfat
ing the Quebec tcrcentenary. and that i
well. But truly, the occasion should not
pass without the addition Of this more
useful ana picturesque feature the say
ing and the conservation cf the Quebec
battlefelds for all time This country,
which is growing SO RAPIDLY, ana wnich
is forever ia fever of buying and sell.
ing, can we'll afford to indulge the nobler
feeling which calls for the creation Of 4
national park embracing The Plains Of
Abraham. It is a debt Of nonor. Tie
discharge it fttingly viii he lasting
New Brunswick in this
matter should do its share.-St. John