32 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES

the wrongs which they claim to have suffered at the hands 0f the White Men. ‘

The history of this part of New Brunswick reads like a novel. The story of Madame de la Tour, for example, is but one of the romances that come to our mind. Charles Amador de la Tour, Lieut.—General to the King of France, established himself in a fort at St. John harbour in 1635, ~ and developed a large trade in furs. This angered D’Aul— nay de Charnisay, the Lieut.—Governor, because at Port Royal, his own headquarters, the fur trading facilities were poor. After a series of intrigues and fights, Char- nisay attacked the fort in Saint John in 1645 when La Tour was in; Boston, and Madame La Tour was in charge. The latter made a heroic defence, but was beaten, her garrison hanged, and the fort destroyed. Her own death followed in a few weeks. La Tour, vshorn of his power and possessions, became a wanderer, and his rival became sole ruler in Acadie. After the death of the latter in 1650, La Tour went to France, and induced the King to appoint him sole governor of Acadie. He returned and settled in St. John, in the fort built by Charnisay on the west side of the harbour, and married the widow of his old enemy. In 1654, when the country was taken by the English, in the time of Cromwell, he received a new grant of land, and continued to live in St. John until he died in 1666. He was probably buried near the fort. He left several children, and there are deslcendants to this day in the province.

We were fortunate in travelling from Fredericton to St. John by daylight, as every scene, every vista is a link with the gallant deeds of an age long past.”

Mr. D. J. Wagner, of Ottawa, a member of our party said: “I enjoyed the trip along the bank of the St. John River; very much. I attended the Normal School in Fred-