Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Part 64

Paterson, Peter, notice of.

Pean, Captain Hugues; to whom married; notice of.

Pean, Madame.

Peltrie, Madame de la, founder of Ursulines Convent; her heart deposited in Jesuits' Church.

Perceval, M. H., Collector of Customs; owner of Spencer Wood.

Perrault, Joseph F., pioneer of lay education; description of his residence.

Perrault's Hill.

_Pet.i.te Hermine, La_, one of Cartier's, ships; discovered.

Phipps, Sir William, defeated.

Physicians, first in Canada.

Pieskurit, an Indian chief.

Pillory, on the market place.

Pitt, William, cited.

Place d'Armes.

Plains of Abraham, former extent of; derivation of name; ascent to, said to have been indicated by DeVitre or Stobo; by Cugnet; Wolfe's landing and occupation of.

Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, date of; various estimates of troops engaged; position of forces; anecdotes of; described by Carlyle; flight of the French.

Plessis, Bishop, builds St. Roch's Church.

Poem, first French, issued in Canada.

Pointe a Carcy.

Pointe a Puiseaux, called Cape Diamond by Champlain; after whom named; view from.

Poncet, Father, captured by Iroquois.

Post Office, demolished; history of the Canadian.

Postage, amount of, in 1774.

Powell, Henry W., biographical sketch of.

Powell Place. See Spencer Wood.

"Premier," transport, stranded.

Presbyterian minister, first in Province of Quebec.

Prescott, Governor.

Pres-de-Ville, Montgomery killed at; situation of.

Press-gangs in Quebec.

Prince Edward. See Kent, Duke of.

Prince of Wales, ball in honor of.

Prince William Henry, afterwards William IV., visits Canada; name of Sorel changed in his honor; festivities during his stay in Quebec.

Princess Louise embankment and docks, tablet stone laid.

Printing. See Newspapers and Books.

Protestants, use Jesuits' Church.

Punishment of criminals.

Quail, imported from Europe.

Quebec, described by Henry Ward Beecher, --J. T. Bulmer --Captain Butler --P. J. O. Chauveau --Charles d.i.c.kens --Sir Charles Dilke --Hawkins --Bishop Laval --Charles Lever --Marmier --Mrs. Moodie --M. Sand --Duke of Saxe-Weimar --Prof. Silliman, --Th.o.r.eau --Eliot Warburton; foundation of; society in the last century; old plans of city; surrendered by Champlain; fifty years ago; farewell of King's Own Borderers; population in 1680; inhabitants starved by Bigot's ring; extent at beginning of nineteenth century; shipping and business at that time; early city government under the English; incorporated; first Mayor; limits; munic.i.p.al divisions; present city government; _fiefs_, contained in; War department property in; capture described by Carlyle; society before the Conquest; arrival of British fleet; French who remained in, in 1629; dates of events in history of.

Quebec Bank, history of site of.

Queen's wharf and stores.

Raffeix, Father, accompanies DeCourcelles against the Indians.

Raftsmen.

Ragueneau, Father, makes first mention of Niagara Falls; accompanies defeated Hurons to Quebec.

Railway, Gosford, wooden.

Razilly, De, influences M. de Sillery.

Reade, John S., description of first number of Quebec Gazette; account of Quebec society in the last century.

Rebellion of 1837, monument to victims of.

Recollets, Father DeBerey, provincial of the; at Quebec; first who arrive; build first church, convent and seminary; their _fief_ reverts to the Crown.