TERCENTENARY, July 28.
Ir would have been difficult indeed for our forefathers of a Il) century ago to have believed that on the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Quebec naval detachments from France, Great Britain and the United States would be reviewed on the Plains of Abraham by a British Prince. No city in the New World has had a more the thrilling history than Quebec place has been the scene of more desperate combats between French and British arms. Of all these contests that which led to the capture of the city, on the Heights of Abraham, is best known. There is not a British school-boy whose heart has not been thrilled by Wolfe's almost prophetic repetition of Gray's immortal lines whilst dropping down the St. Lawrence on what proved, indeed, to him to be the "path of glory." Nor can there be many British boys to whom the name of Montcalm is not as familiar, It) is safa_to say that no
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