| Show WORK OF A DEVOTED WOMAN ni how slaw mane rounded founded the turnout hotel dlou dieu in 1641 the following romantic story was wag told by dr W H kingston of montreal in addressing the international medical con congress gross when jacques cartier returned to france after liis his discovery of canada th tha news of his exploit traveled over france franc as quickly as was then possible A french girl young and beautiful became impressed with the thought that thai t the h e newly found country should be the th scene ot of lier her labors she succeeded af aaflei let akimo a time unfitting in fitting outa out a small bark with money furnished by a male lime bullion and with twelve sailors crossed the atlantic in the spring of 1041 1641 the sea voyage to quebec occupied three months it can now be accomplished in one fifteenth of that time the journey from quebec to montreal by the st lawrence which can now be ba performed in a night then occupied eight days miss bliss mances bark came to ta an anchor at a projecting point off the island of montreal then called Hoche higi was at that time the chef liebof lieu of the warlike durons they looked with amazement at the advent of pale faced men and one palefaces pale faced woman for she was alone of her sex they soon recovered from their surprise however lio wever and it was necessary for the colonists to throw up for their protection as aa quickly as possible wooden palisades on the land or rear approach the big canoe as the tha bark was styled was a sufficiently imposing defense in front if a colonist ventured beyond the palisades to gather fruit or berries or to cut wood he ran ran the risk of being pierced with arrows halt half of the first colonists perished in this manner and miss mance was obliged to return to france in 1619 1640 bringing back with her other recruits and agaby in 1038 1658 leaving france with twenty male and female recruits half of whom died on the voyage of a form of plague 1 in their attacks on this small force some boma of tho the red men were wounded in return and when deserted by their comrades comrad eq they were brought within the palisades to what they and their tribe considered certain deatle aco according to their own custom in maifare wai waif fare are they soon boon found the hospital to be a place of womans comans kenderest ten derest solicitude when the red mans man s wounds were healed a repast of do dogs a meat was prepared for him and he be was permitted to rejoin his tribe to tell what tho the pale faced maiden had done for him it need not surprise us to be told that in the presence of such devotion the warlike huron soon forgot his ferocity A few years later it was waa necessary for the small colony to move a few hundred yards inland word went throughout the huron camp and before tho the hour of departure the aborigines had strewn the ground with leaves and the branches of trees and with wild flowers saying the earth was not fit to receive the tread of these women in this way our first hospital was established and in this way tho the light of christianity was brought to the island of montreal treal here is how the hospital has been sustained miss bliss mance blanco had obtained from the french king a deef of gift in perpetuity of the small piece of land where she landed which at that time was valueless it became however in the course of years the center of the villa village e of montreal and eventually the commercial city clustered clustered around it A century and a third ago when canada passed from the rule of france to that of great britain respect was paid by the conqueror to the rights originally conferred by the french king in and the hospital li which at first had bad but the aborigines for inmates continued to receive receive within its walls as colonization went on persons of every succeeding nationality for upward of yea years rs after its foundation it alone afforded asylum to the sick and wounded of montreal and westward how mar mai f from these shores chores when sick and disabled have there received maternal care how many of your children in that then baroff land had the pillow of death smoothed for them thele and without fee or pecuniary re waid and the same continues to this day for the property pio plo perty preserved to those i x eli elisions gions ladies by a wise conqueror has without municipal aid or government patronage but with economy sufficed for the wants of the institution medical journal |
