Lanterna Rally

Author: Margaret Grant Macwhirter

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Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781331927686

Excerpt from Treasure Trove in Gaspe and the Baie Des Chaleurs Tn presenting this volume to the public, I realize how inadequately I have performed the task, although the collecting of material and putting it into its present form has been a labour of love. This country of Gaspesia and northern New Brunswick abounds in historical and legendary interest, and it has been my effort to preserve this from oblivion. Already at this lapse of time it is difficult to tell where history ends and tradition begins, because of the overlapping of the one with the other. For long years, Gaspesia in particular was isolated in great measure. Difficulty of egress in winter made travelling slow and laborious. The railway - long talked of - tarried long in coming, so long indeed that the Baie des Chaleurs Railway became a by-word. In Gaspe and the counties surrounding the Baie des Chaleurs grew up a brave, hardy race, fearless alike of the toil and dangers of the sea and forest, industrious, hospitable to the core, cherishing the religion and traditions of their fathers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."