Historical and sporting notes on Quebec and its environs.

An excellent turnpike road leads past the Dorchester bridge, (erected by Asa Porter, in 1789, and called after Lord Dorchester, then Governor General of Canada) through a double row of neat cottages and white farm houses, to the foaming cataract of Montmorenci.Previous to 1789, the St. Charles was crossed by a scow ; and, at low water, by a ford.of the house, and communicating, at high tide, with the St. Lawrence.It is provided with row boats, canoes, &c.This long, narrow pond, served in 1759, in lieu of a ditch, to one of General Montcalm's redoubts ; for a succession of years, in summer, it has been the source of unspeakable delight, on every weekly holiday, to the Seminary scholars.Crede experto.On the 7th March, 1850, the pupils, in solemn conclave, and after exhaustive discussion of several names proposedamong which that of Montigny (after the great Bishop Laval, Abbe de Montigny, founder of the Petit Seminaire in 1668) came prominently to the frontdecided that their pleasant trysting place should be known to succeeding generations as Maizerets.Maizerets is the name of the venerable Superior of the Quebec Seminary, during whose protracted tenure of office this valuable property was acquired by this educational institution.Revd Louis Ango des Maizerets closed his career, on the 22nd April, 1721, at the ripe age of 85 years, loved and regretted.The main road, overhung by wide-spreading elms, leads past the lofty, turreted dome, extensive buildings and pleasure grounds of the Piovinaal Lunatic Asylum^ founded in 1845 ; first, in Col. Gugy's roomy stone stables, (1) adjoining the Duchesnay Manor, by three of the leading physicians of Quebec, Doctors James Douglas, Joseph Morrin and Joseph Fremont, and then transferred to the present location.The east wing, occupied by the females, stands on the eite of the old Chateau de Bonne^ where Judge de Bonne, an active politician in his day, and also a learned jurist, resided for years, in the early part of the century.No more suitable, nor healthy locality, could have been selected as a home for the 1,000 (1) This commodious receptacle of Col. Gugy's stud was taken down in 1887.unfortunates, bereft of reason, and over whom the Pro- vincial Government is expected to watch.The streamlet, known as the Riviere des Tauftferes, winds through the leafy seclusion and flows under the rustic iron, suspension bridge of Glenalla, now Villa Mastai During our war with the United States, in 18 12-14, this diminutive, though deep brook was assigned as the western limit of the paroled American prisoners-some 40 odd, officers and privates-taken at Detroit, &c.among them, Generals Hull, Winchester and Chandler ; they were at first located in the Chateau de Bonne.Capt.Mathew Bell's cavalry escorted them to Quebec in the winter of 18 13, and they were placed in the house, No. 81, St. Louis street -in which the historian Hon.Wm.Smith expired, on 17th December, 1847 -now the resi- dence of Sheriff Chs.Alleyn.Their fellow prisoner, taken at Queenston, Col. (afterwards Genl.Winfield Scott), had the run of the city on parole.Col. Scott won laurels in the Mexican war, and acquired, on account of his bustling activity and love of display, the well remembered sobriquet of old Fuss and Feathers.The stately, athletic Colonel, however lived under parole with Colonel (afterwards Major General) Glasgow, the Commander of the Quebec Garrison, in 181 3.In 181 7, we shall find him again, within our walls, an honored guest, under the hospitable roof, at March mont, Grande Allee, of Sir John Harvey, who subsequently became Governor of one of the British Colonies

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