[7] Ste. Anne de Bellevue, an old village at the junction of the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, “always a rendezvous of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois up the Ottawa.”
“The waters of the Ottawa are about three inches higher than the waters of Lake St. Louis (in the St. Lawrence), and are therefore precipitated through the two channels running around Île Perot with considerable force, forming a succession of short rapids.”—From Report of Public Works, 1866.
[8] While Jouaneaux’s house had historic existence, its elaboration, of course, had not.
[9] “Furent arrêtés huit jours au bout de l’île de Montreal, dans un endroit très-rapide qu’ils avaient à traverser”, says the French chronicler. But for romancer’s purposes, the liberty is taken of shortening the time.
[10] “The large mountain was named Le Calvaire by the piety of the first settlers. At its summit were seven chapels,—memorials of the mystic seven of St. John’s vision,—the scene of many a pilgrimage. Gallant cavalier and high-born lady from their fastness at Villemarie toiled side by side up the same weary height.”—Picturesque Canada.
[11] Pronounced “So.” The Abbé Faillon with exactness locates the engagement at the foot of the Long Saut rapids, “à huit ou dix lieues au-dessus de l’île de Montreal, et au-dessous du saut dit de la Chaudière.”
[12] Francis Parkman.
[13] Le Moine.
[14] “Dollard, un homme de cœur,” says Abbé Faillon.
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