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Montreal, Mr. William Hansen being in the chair, and

Dr. Leslie Pidgeon and Principal Smyth of the United Church of Canada College, being the speakers.

The dinner in the evening at The Mount Royal Hotel was a most enjoyable affair. Again a warm welcome was tendered the visitors.

Travelling by the south shore of the mighty St. Law- rence, shortly before reaching the city of Quebec, we crossed the famous Quebec bridge at Charny. The total length of this bridge is 3240 feet; it is I50 feet above the water, and one of the engineering triumphs of the world.

On arrival in Quebec Thursday a.m., we were trans- ferred to the world famed Chateau Frontenac, where we had breakfast (Grande SaIIe a manger en haut—Main Dining Room upstairs).

The Chateau is on the cliff of Old Quebec, Canada’s most romantic site, and was modelled on the plan of the sixteenth century French Chateaux.

Quebec 15 the capital of the Province. In 1535 Jacques Cartier, sailing from France to discover a new way to the Indies, sailed up the magnificent river, and called it the St. Lawrence, anchoring at a little tributary, which he called St. Croix. After visiting Hochelaga (Montreal), he wintered there, returning to France the following spring. In 1608 Samuel de Champlain planted the fieur- de-lis of France on the heights of Quebec and became the real founder of New France. In 1629 Quebec fell into the hands of the British, but with the rest of the country was restored to the French in 1632. In I690 the British again attacked it and failed, but in 1759 were successful under Wolfe, when he and the French General, Montcalm, fell in the battle of the Plains of Abraham. The whole of Canada then passed into the hands of the British. Next to Gibraltar, Quebec is the strongest fortified position in