The Plains of Abraham, 1759 - Literary And Historical Society Quebec

Excerpt from The Plains of Abraham, 1759: A Spot Sacred to the Memory of Wolfe and Montcalm
The departure from Canada of England's red. Coated legions in 1871, amongst other voids, left waste, untenanted and unoccu pied, the historic area, which had been for close upon a century reserved as their parade and exercising ground on review days. The military authorities, always so careful in keeping its fences in repair, handed it over to the Dominion, which made no pro vision for the purpose. On the 9th March, 1875, the Dominion, Government leased it to the corporation of the city of Quebec for ten years of the lease under which it was held from the Religious Ladies of the Ursulines of Quebec, provided the corpo ration assumed the conditions of the lease, involving an annual' rental of two hundred dollars. The extensive con agration of 1876, which laid waste one half of St. Louis suburbs, and the consequent impoverished state of the municipal finances prevented the civic authorities from voting any money to maintain in proper order the fences of the Plains. Decay, ruin and disorder were fast settling down upon the place, when a number of the citizens of Quebec spontaneously came to the rescue. In November, 1876, an association was formed, composed as follows: His Honour l.ieut.-gov. Caron. His Worship Mayor Owen Murphy, Chief Justice Meredith, Hon. Judge Tessier, Hon. E Chinic, Hon. D. E. Price, Chas. E. Levey, Hon. P. Garneau, Col. Rhodes, John Gilmour, John Burstall, Hon. C. C. Delery, J. B. Renaud, Jos. Hamel, (sir) Jas. M. Lemoine, Thos. Mcgreevy, Hon. Chas. Alleyn, C. F. Smith, A. P. Caron, Thos Beckett, J as. Gibb, R. R. Dobell and E. G. Meredith, secretary. Hon. E. Chinic and Messrs. C. F. Smith and R. R. Dobell were_5.
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