Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present

by Sir J. M. Le Moine

CHAPTER I.

[1] Mr. and Mrs. Dickens had lunched in the Citadel on that May 27th, 1842, the admired guests of the officers of the Grenadier Guards stationed there.

[2] Lettres sur l'Amérique: X. Marmier. Paris, 1869.

[3] The Highlanders—78th, 79th, and 93rd.

[4] The New York Ledger.

[5] Before the era of the Allan line, sailing vessels used to land their living cargoes of forlorn emigrants in the Lower Town, sometimes after a passage of fourteen weeks.