father of Canada’s well beloved Queen Vic- 
     
     toria. Added interest will be found in the 
     
     fact that the Princess Louise participated in 
     
     the perfection of the artistic design. 
     
    

    
     Just a short distance north is the site 
     
     of the old St. John Gate. There is now 
     
     neither gate nor arch here, but the portal 
     
     demolished was as old as the St. Louis Gate. 
     
     In Montcalm’s day the old gate swung open 
     
     to allow some of his defeated troops to pass 
     
     in, and it was against this gate that part of 
     
     the American effort was directed in the futile attempt of 1775. 
     
    

    
     There are no remains of the old gate on the busy Palais 
     
     thoroughfare that leads from St. John Street down towards the 
     
     River St. Charles, nor has any memorial tower been erected yet to 
     
     mark the site. The street took its name from the palace or residence 
     
     of the French intendants, and the ruins of that building may still 
     
     be seen at the foot of the hill. The old Palais Gate had many mem- 
     
     ories attached to it, and it withstood frequent attacks from besieging 
     
     foes. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The comparatively modern gates of convenience, Hope and 
     
     Prescott, have both been demolished in the demand for unobstructed 
     
     streets, but it is proposed to some day mark their sites by suitable 
     
     memorials. Hope Gate was on the north side, while the Prescott 
     
     Gate commanded the steep Mountain Hill on the eastern water front. 
     
    

    
     Champlain's ‘Abitation' was near the foot of Mountain 
     
     Hill, but right out on the water. The place where he landed 
     
     in 1608, and from which the founding of Quebec dates, was about 
     
     two hundred yards to the south—west, where King's Wharf now 
     
     is. Champlain’s Old Fort stood on the very spot: where now stands 
     
     the fine monument to his memory as founder of Quebec. 
     
    

    
     Close by, on the site now occupied by that magnificent 
     
     hostelry, the Chateau Frontenac, once stood the Chateau St. Louis, 
     
     in which Champlain, Frontenac and Carleton successively lived. 
     
     The cellar of the former building still remains under the terrace 
     
     platform. The Old Fort extended back and included what is now 
     
     known as the Place d'Armes or Ring. 
     
    

    
     The old Chateau St. Louis was once the seat of a power that 
     
     ruled from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It 
     
     was destroyed by fire in the year 1834, and thus was lost a priceless 
     
     relic of the past. 
     
    
   
   
    
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