[14] "...Notre Ange tutélaire, le Sieur de la Salle."—Douay.
[15] The Indian name for Count Frontenac.
[16] Of the gallant Le Moyne family, of whom also was d'Iberville, the soldier, explorer, and governor.
[17] Discovered at the demolition of the old wall in 1854.
[18] The narrative has been preserved in the heroine's own words, through the care of the Marquis de Beauharnois, sometime Governor of Canada.
[19] Parkman's Frontenac c.14 (quoting from Collection de l'Abbé Ferland).
[20] Laval was the owner of the Seigneury of Beauport and the Isle d'Orleans, which by royal edict had been freed from feudal burdens. By the census of 1667 it was found to contain more than one-fourth of the entire population of Canada.
[21] This was the officer who, years before, had striven to rescue the victims of the massacre of Lachine.
[22] Brigadier John Hill was the brother of Mrs. Masham, Queen Anne's favourite, to whom, and not to his merit, he owed his appointment.
[23] Now called Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island respectively.