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The Scot in New France (1535-1880)


The first British Governor of Quebec, a Scotchman, General James Murray, as it were, took loyally and bravely the keys of the city gates from the last French Commandant of the place, Major de Ramezay, of Scotch ancestry. There were more Scotch associated to the destinies of the old rock in those remote times than you are aware of.

Let us hurry on.

We feel as if we should never be forgiven were we to delay unfolding the warlike record of those terrible mountaineers of Fraser, at Quebec in 1759, so earnest in avenging on France’s pet colony, France’s indifference to the fate of their own country in its hour of trial.

"Quebec and Cape Breton, the pride of old France,
In their troops fondly boasted till we did advance,
But when our claymores they saw us produce,
Their coarage did fail, and they sued for a truce.

THE GARB OF OLD GAUL."

List of officers of Fraser’s Highlanders, commissions dated, 5th January, 1757:

Lieut.-Col. Commandant.—Honorable Simon Fraser, died Lieutenant-General in 1782.

Majors.—James Clephane; John Campbell, of Dunoon, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the Campbell Highlanders in Germany.

Captains.—John MacPherson, brother of Clunie. [See Appendix Letter B, Clunie MacPherson.] John Campbell, of Ballimore; Simon Fraser, of Inverlochy, killed on the Heights of Abraham in 1795; Donald MacDonald, brother of Clanronald, killed at Sillery 1760; John MacDonnell, of Lochgarry, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel of the 76th, or MacDonald’s Regiment, died in 1789, Colonel; Alexander Cameron, of Dun-gallon; Thomas Ross, of Culrossie, killed on the Heights of Abraham; Alexander Fraser, of Culduthel; Sir Henry Seton, of Abercorn, Baronet; James Fraser, of Belladrum; Simon Fraser, Captain-Lieutenant, died a Lieutenant-General in 1812.

Lieutenants.—Alexander MacLeod, Hugh Cameron, Ronald Mac Donald, of Keppoch; Charles MacDonnell, of Glengarry,


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