By WILLIAM McLENNAN
and J. N. McILWRAITH
Illustrations by F. de Myrbach
NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
TORONTO:
THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year1899, by Harper & Brothers, at the Department of Agriculture.
Copyright, 1899, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.
The reader familiar with the amusing memoirs of the ChevalierJohnstone will recognise in how far Maxwell was suggested thereby;if he be equally familiar with the detail of Canadian history ofthe period he will have little difficulty in discovering theoriginals of Sarennes and some of the secondary characters, and,in the Epilogue, the legend of the death of the celebrated missionary,le R. P. Jean Baptiste de la Brosse. But while the experience ofsome actual man or woman has suggested a type to be portrayed, itis only as a type, and with no intention of representing theindividual in the character of the story. Nor is the attempt toset forth the respective attitude of the Canadian and the old-countryFrenchman to be read as a personal expression of the authors', butas their conception of an unfortunate condition between colonistand official that obtained as fully in Canada as it did betweenthe same classes in the English colonies.
Long habit has made the English names of many places and positionsso familiar to many in Canada that to adhere to the French form inall instances would be as unnatural as to Anglicise all namesthroughout—which will explain the lack of uniformity in thisparticular.
The authors have pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness toM. l'Abbé Casgrain, of Quebec, for valuable personal assistance indetermining local detail, and to Mtre. Joseph Edmond Roy, N.P., ofLévis, for information on the period and the use of his version ofthe death of the père de la Brosse from his interesting monograph,“Tadoussac.”
W. McL. and J. N. McI.
MAXWELL'S STORY
MARGARET'S STORY