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Gaudarville property, situated oa its nortli-east limit. De Maure was tlie surname of a man of wealth and noble extraction, Jean Juchereau(7) from Beauce in France, who had corne ont to Québec in 163-i and wh.o&e line is most brilliant, having fumished especially nine or ten military officers of great merit, during more than two centuries. Lieutanant- (Joloriel Juche rcau-Duchesnay, in command of Military District Ko. 7 (Québec), in 1892, was the direct issue of this wortliy settler. Juchereau did not, howerer, get the original seigniorial patent of Cap Rouge, because this was given, loth Norember 1653, to the above mentioned Louis de Lauzon, in order to enlarge his fief of Gaudarville. As the Lauzon family did very little in the way of colonization, and quitted this country at an early date, it is presumed his title to the land passed to Juchereau, and on? of the grandsons of this gentleman sold it to the Nuns Hospitaliers of Québec by a deed of 22nd September 1733.

The document of 15th Norember 1653, oontains a few lines ver}' characteristic of the troubles of that time. It reads : "The continuai irruptions of the Iroquois hare caused many massacres, besides the capture of numbers of inhabitants of Cap Eouge and that place may soon be totally abandoned if no means be taken to prevent the répétition of such an eril.'' Some other attack? are noted down in the archivas of the follovring years, until at last the Indian hostilities ceased entirely and for ever around Québec, upon the arrivai of the Carignan Régiment from France in 1665.

A queer incident happened in 1658. Tlie habitants raised a difficulty about their contribution towards the offering of the 'Hjlessed bread" which they were expected to

7. See Mélatif/cs historiques, vol. 1. pag-es 40-42. also la Famille Juchereau Duchesnau. by P.-G. Eoy. Lévis, 1903.

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make to tlie parish clmreh at Québec, according to their tum among the surrounding districts, for the observance of the symbolic *'breaking of bread" (the agape in short, which is kept up in the Catholic churches of French-speaking Canada until this day, though I find that even our Euglish writers sometimes misunderstand and misrepresent the custom). The matter was, howeyer, arranged amicably with the marguilliers, or vestrymen, and no more was said about it.

The colony grew, The fertile lands developed their vaine, and this spot, -udiere the wild Indians used to terrify the men of Cartier and the settlers of M. de Lauzon, became transformed into a most chamiing agricultural country, a rendez-vous for citizens of the capital, for the hunters and the anglers, possessing as it did attractions both for the idler and the sportsnian.

It Trill not, I hope, offend anyone if I hère remark that Roberval's convicts had many worthy successors and imitators at Cap Rouge, not by any fault of the peoiple of the place, but simply because it furnished such a convenient refuge for ruffians, at a short distance from town. Early in the nineteenth century, a band of robbers seleeted the C'ap Eouge woods as a hiding-place for their booty and as a rendez-vous "u-hen plotting some new game against one of the parishes round about Québec. Who has not read "^Camibray and his accomplices" by Eéal Angers (8), the f.ather of the late Lieutenant-Governor of the Province (9) or that pretty novel by Eugène L'Ecuyer : "The Brigands of Cap Eouge (10)"?