Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-16
Fine Naval Display at Night.

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Fine Naval Display at Night.
Other features of the thirteen days
programme will be professions through
the streets of Quebec, exercises before
the Champlain statue, receptions Of
the official guests, speech by the
Prince of Wales, renditions Of sacred
and secular music, military band con-
certs, regattas on the river, receptions
on board the warships, dedication of
the battlefield Of the Plains of Abra.
ham by the prince, official ball at Par
lament House given by the govern
ment of the province of Quebec, naval
display at night by the combined feet,
planting Of a tree in Victoria park by
the prince, speech by Vice President
Fairbanks, parades of Canadian clubs
and societies, immense fireworks dis
plays and speech by Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier, premier of Canada.
The magnitude and scope of the ter
centenary celebration, the transatlan.
tic voyage, of the heir to the British
throne and of other dignitaries to take
part in it and the keen general inter
est taken in it by great nations indi-
cate that the anniversary commem-
GRATED has unusual significance, an
import far deeper. than merely nom.
inai consideration would reveal. And
such is really the fact. The history
Of Quebec is largely the history Of
Canada. The city, its founders and
developers have welded an influence
in international affairs that they did
not reckon, that in their times they
could not estimate. Some keen writers
there are who aver that In American
history Quebec should rank. with
jamestown and Plymouth in impor-
lance as a birthplace Of American lib.
critics. owing presumably to the pow.
erful influence exerted from Quebec
prior to the Revolution in territory
now included in the United States.
Quebec's visitors will be well cared
for. A city of tents" with accommo-
dations for $4,000 people, will supple
ment the preparations made by hotel
and boarding house keepers.
Besieged Five Times.
Quebec was long the key to the pos
session Of the entire Dominion Of Can
ada. 1t became a part Of the unwrit
ten law Of nations that whoever held
Quebec became entitled to possession
of the surrounding territory. This &C
counts for the fact that Quebec has
been under siege or prolonged and con
certed attack no less than FIVE times
record comparing with those Of
some of the famous war towns OF con
ttnental Europe. For over a century
Quebec was the center of military op
erations Of France and England In the
new world, as well as the educational
religious and political center. In It'll
value as a strategic point Quebec Il
unsurpassed by any city in Nortl
America. By successfully resisting
the Continental army under Genera
Montgomery and Benedict Arnold ii
It'll Quebec saved all of the present
dominion Of Canada to Great Britain
1t was the city that opened the way
to the establishment Of the great trad
ing posts in the wildernesses thai
were to earn vast fortunes for kings
princes and nobility. At Quebec Is th,
Basilica, the mother church Of Roman
Catholicism in America. It was IL
Quebec that dwelt and ruled, will
their retinues, at the Chateau ST
Louis, the governors sent over from
France and England. The city hal
long boosted Of one Of the stronges
natural Notifications in the world-th,
Citadel. browning the city, wen de
scribed as the Gibraltar of America
which was designed by Lord Wei
lington. Quebec was at one time til,
capital and largest city Of the vas
territory, and it founded and fosteret
the great industries that have utilizes
the Unreasonable wealth of the Do
minion- ship building, numbering, man
ufacturing and mining.
From the foregoing 1t may readily b.
realized why the tercentenary of tIil
coveted city is considered to be O.
primary international importance. Il
short Quebec gave Canada to France
that is why the French severe, q,
Dickens wrote. afhe city suspended Ii
nidairn Quebec gave Canada to Brit
ain; that is why the British cherisi
the city as one OF the rarest Jewels u
the crown Of empire.