Beauport

The waters before Quebec were difficult, and boats grounded unexpectedly in a falling tide.

Phipps landed a force on the north side of the basin at Beauport, but was held in check by French and Indian skirmishing parties.

He sailed his ships up close to Quebec and bombarded the stronghold, but then, as now, ships were impotent against well-served land defenses.

Soon Phipps was short of ammunition.

The assailant of Quebec must land on low ground, commanded everywhere from heights four, seven or eight miles on the east and as many on the west.

At both ends of this long front are further natural defenses, at the east the gorge of the Montmorency River and at the west that of the Cap Rouge River.

Wolfe's desire was to land his army on the Beauport shore at some point between Quebec and Montmorency.

But Montcalm's fortified post, behind which lay his army, stretched along the shore for six miles all the way from the Montmorency to the St. Charles.

Mention has been made of the temporary residence in the convent of the Recollet, and of a building which was erected for themselves at about two hundred feet from the shore, near the junction of the River Leray and the River St. Charles.

The Jesuits received a concession of this land, which was bounded on the west by a stream called Saint-Michel, and the River Saint-Marie or Beauport on the east.

this was named the signory of notre dame des anges the jesuits convent was finished on april sixth sixteen twenty six it was a poor residence of about forty feet in length and thirty feet in width the building contained a small chapel dedicated to notre dame des anges on account of a picture which decorated a wall representing the blessed virgin receiving the homage of angels this name extended beyond the chapel and was given to the signory and after a lapse of three centuries it remains unchanged the different mission stations of the jesuits in canada and around the gulf of the st lawrence were maintained at the expense of the hundred associates from the year sixteen thirty two with the exception of their college at quebec which was founded through the liberality of the marquis de gamache who gave them a sum of sixteen thousand d'or for that purpose in sixteen twenty six on the occasion of his son taking religious vows the offer was accepted by father vitelleschi general of the order and the college was founded in sixteen thirty five and opened a few years later this writes parkman was the cradle of the great missions of canada as soon as the jesuits arrived they commenced to repair their residence and in the year sixteen thirty two it was in a fit state for a banquet which was given to emery de caïn who had been appointed governor ad interim of the french colony champlain returned from france to quebec in the month of june of the following year and again took over the government of new france he brought with him fathers masset and jean de brebeuf and their arrival was the dawn of a brighter era for the canadian missions the jesuits founded during the same year a mission at three rivers and another at ihoniteria in the huron country the mission stations at miscou and at cape breton were also opened at about the same time but they were all practically speaking dependent upon the liberality of the hundred associates the jesuits in their relation of sixteen thirty five regarded the establishment of the mission of notre dame des anges as destined to fulfil three designs which they had in view for the honor and glory of god these were one to erect a college for the education of young frenchmen who were becoming more and more numerous two to found a seminary for young indians for the purpose of civilizing or improving their moral condition.

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some nuns offered to go to canada to look after the sick and to instruct the young girls and in the year sixteen thirty three a few families arrived in quebec with champlain who had defrayed their expenses in the year sixteen thirty four an association was formed in France for the purpose of promoting colonization, and a group of about forty persons, recruited in different parts of the provinces of Perche, were sent to Canada, with Robert Giffard at their head.

Giffard, it will be remembered, had visited Quebec in the year 1627, as surgeon of the vessels sent out by the company, but he had no intention of settling in the country.

After having built a log-hut on the Beauport shore, he devoted his leisure to hunting and fishing, game and fish being plentiful at that time, and returned to France during the same year.

He was appointed surgeon to Roquemont's fleet during the following year, and as the vessels were captured by the English, he, with the others on board, was compelled to return to his mother country.

And once again, I'm surprised to find that this case is not better known.

But by the end of tonight's episode, you will finally be answering the violent knocking of the Bhopal Poltergeist.

Because I'm Peter Laws and this is Into the Fog.

Let me take you back to the summer of 1989, where Ghostbusters 2 and Tim Burton's Batman were filling cinemas while Fine Young Cannibals and Madonna were filling dance floors.

At the time, Beauport in Canada was not yet part of Quebec City.

It was a separate town sitting quietly along the St. Lawrence River.

Since the early 1970s, it had been growing steadily and new houses were being built, but older houses were getting divided up into apartments so the workers and young families moving into the area had space.

And so all four tenants of the building on Monseigneur Gaultier Street did what any of us probably would do.

But way back when, Manon was the very first woman to play on official NHL ice.

Born in Beauport, Quebec in 1972, Manon Raume started playing hockey at a young age with her brothers.

When they suited up and wanted to play in the rink that her father made in their backyard, they needed someone to play a goalie, so they suited her up and put her in the crease.

Yeah, they really said, if you want to play with us, you've got to just stop the pucks.