List of Illustrations
| PAGE | |
| "At first Oisette was terribly shy." (See [page 37]) | [Frontispiece] |
| "Mr. Sage . . . was waving a greenback in Monsieur Tremblent's face" | [18] |
| "Bernadette . . . looked up" | [21] |
| "They drove into the city" | [25] |
| "Some of the boys arriving on snowshoes brought friends with them" | [29] |
| "'Are you going to the Citadel in one of those funny calêche things?'" | [100] |
Our Little Quebec Cousin
CHAPTER I
AN INTRODUCTION
The traveler who comes to visit on the island of Montreal gets no correct idea of the beauty of it all until he has climbed to the top of Mount Royal, which rises directly behind the great city of Montreal in the Province of Quebec. From this elevation, about one thousand feet above sea level, the observer beholds not only the banks of the St. Lawrence river, with its warehouses, grain elevators and shipping; he sees not only this solidly built city of churches—but far to his left stretches the farming country of the Province of Quebec, far to his right, on clear days he can see the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain, while on the opposite shores of the St. Lawrence, spanned by the once famous Victoria Bridge, he sees the villages of Longueil and St. Lambert.
Then, from the very summit of this mountain, he must also look behind him and see the numerous small towns and villages that lie back of Mount Royal, all of these being reached by tramways which run out from Montreal.