Quebec is supplied with water from Lake Saint Charles, and is lighted by electricity, the power for which is obtained from Montmorency Falls, seven miles distant. Quebec sends three members to the Dominion House of Commons and three to the Provincial Legislature.
Interesting localities in the neighborhood in clude the Plains of Abraham, named after a pilot of the Saint Lawrence who owned this tract of land, and containing a monument to Wolfe in honor of the victory of 1759; Wolfe's Cove, where the British encamped; Pres de Ville, where Gen eral Montgomery fell in 1775; Montmorency Falls, where Montealm resisted Wolfe, noted for its beautiful scenery and cataract; Beauport and its asylum: Levis, with its three forts: Lorette (q.v.), with its falls, Indian church, and_ Indian settlement; the Chaudibre Falls; Saint Anne de Beaupre, a place of pilgrimage, whose church contains relics of Saint Anne, supposed to effect marvelous cures: Chateau Bigot. an histor ical house near Charlesburg; Cap Rouge; and Isle d'Orleans, where General Wolfe established his camp prior to the siege of Quebec.
An Indian ton named Stadacona occupied part of the present site of Quebec in 1535 when Jacques Cartier explored the Saint Lawrence.
An unsuccessful attempt at settlement was made by Sieur de Roberval in 1542-43. Its real founder was Champlain. who established a small trading post here in 1608, and gave it the name of Quebec. In 1629 Sir David Kirke captured the settlement, but it was restored to the French three years later. When the colony was made a royal gov ernment in 1663, Quebec became the capital. The English made two unsuccessful attempts to cap ture it in 1690 and 1711. and through the daring of General Wolfe in 1759 it filially fell into Brit ish possession, which has never been interrupted. A fruitless effort was made by the Americans to • capture the city by assault on December 31, 1775, when General Montgomery was killed. For sev eral years Quebec was the capital of United Can ada. and the famous Confederation Debate took place in the old Parliament }louse in 1864. The growth and progress of Quebec have not been rapid. The population, in 1881, numbered 62, 446: in 1891, 63.090: in 1901. 68.834, five-sixths being French, and Roman Catholics. Consult: Russell, Quebec as It Was and as It Is (Quebec, 1S60) ; Parker, Quebec, The Place and the Peo ple (New York, 1903).