Il n'y a pas six mois, not six months ago

3. Bas-Canada, Lo-wer Canada, represented by the modem province of Québec.

4. la croix fleurdelisée, a cross, the extremities of which terminate in a heraldic fleur-de-lis, which is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

Page 88. — i. Montcalm, Louis, Marquis de (1712-1759), a distinguished French gênerai in Canada. He commanded the French forces when Québec was besieged by the English under General Wolfe and fell mortally wounded, as did the English commander, in the battle on the Plains of Abraham, the i3th of September, 1759, when the city was taken. In 1827 a monument was erected in Québec to the common memory of both gênerais. The surrender of Québec was the end of the French power in Canada.