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Chamberlain, for a long time Queen's Printer at Ottawa and whom some of us have known. A cairn, similar to that of Fort Rouville, in Toronto, has been raised there by the Department of Militia, and placed under the care of a local historical society. Neither shaft nor statue, nor cairn tells the present generation where Dollard Desormaux and his sixteen immortal companions laid down their lives, somewhere at Carillon, in the county of Argenteuil, to save Montreal and the French colony from the ferocious Mohawks. There is nothing to mark the spot where that feat of arms, perhaps the most glorious in the annals of Canada, was performed. Of course, the fort of ,the city of Quebec itself is in a fine state of preservation ; but it will be remembered that the whole of the fortifications of Quebec are of comparatively recent structure, and that of the old fortifications, nothing now remains, but perhaps one or two of the city gates, St. Jean and St. Louis, which have been renewed and completely rebuilt. But Quebec has not forgotten its heroes. The statue of Champlain, its founder, has been erected within its precincts, and a shaft rises high in honor of Wolfe and Montcalm, to the equal glory of the victor and vanquished, the emblem, the symbol of the unity of the two races that fought one against the other, in 1759, and who now live and will ever live side by side in amity and good will, not only within its walls, but all over this Dominion. In Sorel, Three Rivers and Montreal, nothing, or very little, remains of the old block-houses. The site of the old French fort at Three Rivers, although the property of the Militia Department, has been converted into a public park, while in Montreal all that can be seen to-day of its old fortifications are two old towers of doubtful origin. But the commercial metropolis of Canada has not forgotten its founder, de Maisonneuve, to whom a fine monument has been erected in one of its squares. Two other old battle grounds of the province of Quebec are under the fostering care of the Department of Militia and