True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French And
True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French And
Charlotte Alice Baker
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As we round the end of the island, at our right loom up the vine- covered towers of the ruined chateau de Senneville, the seigniorial mansion of Jacques Le Ber, "a Canadian feudal castle of the 17th century. " While in captivity Samuel Wil- liams, the son of the Deerfield minister, lived with Jacques Le Ber, a rich merchant of Montreal, whose chateau was then in process of building. Back from the river, on a hill, stands the old stone mill of the seignory, not unlike that at Newport, R. L, but ...more imposing, from its solitary and com- manding position. A little to the northwest of the chateau, "Ottawa's tide" expands into the Lake of the Two Mountains, beyond which the twin mountains form the background of this beautiful picture. Nestling at their base and following the curve of the lake shore, is the Cote, or village of Oka, as the Mission of the Lac des Deux Montagnes is now called. On a finely wooded point, formed by the double curving IKUE STORi; . Li\ND CAFTIVES, e was set \ip bv l^hani ind here, to-day, in good stone chimney and oven '^*-'"' ^'je, by which Rob- 1 ht2 had built his •st, on the land granted ' ;r.
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