CAPTURE OF QUEBEC

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 6

CAPTURE OF QUEBEC

WOLFE'S WRITTEN ORDERS

I One of the most interesting discoveries imaginable pertaining to. the early history of Carfada has come to light at Ottawa in the possession" of Mr. Noulan Canchon, town planner for the "capital. It is the original manuscript copy, bound in rough cow-hide, of General Wolfe's orders in preparation for the attack on Quebec in 1759 and. its capture from the French under Montcalm! in the famous Battle of the Plains of Abraham in ; which both leaders were killed. .. ;

The- book contains Wolfe-'a orders for; the, expedition up, the St. Xawranee: Biver, the siege of QneTjec, and hiivsecret:instructions for the' landing belo^th^cliff'at what now- is Wolfe's ■Corf^ixam. which his "littla;ariny; ascended .to the Plains and victory. The first entry, made at sea, is dated 16th May, 1759, and on Bth June there is a notation that General Wolfe had drawn his will, leaving all his books and papers to "Colonel Carleton," who was Sir Guy Carleton, his quarter-master-general, afterwards Lord Dorchester and Governor-General of Canada. - i ..

On the front of the cow-hide cover is burned in this brief inseilpton: "Book 1759." , The. orders in the first section are "believed to be in the handwriting of Captain.the Hon. Harvey Smyth, 15th Eegiment of Foot, but the writer of the latter portions is not known. Eventually the book will find a home in the National Archives of Canada. .