Show FRENCH ESTATES IN CANADA SOLD TO CONQUERORS The history of ot the relics of a sort lort of feudal system In Quebec it is briefly this Not long after arter Wolfes Wolfe's victory the he Scottish Highlanders marched into Quebec with the tho victorious army The French garrison was WIlS sent away Wal to France the British fleet soon loon followed and the conquerors conquerors con ton with General Murra Murray in command settled down to face faro the rigors of a Quebec winter Rather Esther than live lire under British rule rute many civilians cI also left lett Canada and with them many of the lords of ot the numerous nu an- manors They sold out their holdings cheap and so 10 it chanced that General Murray became possessed possessed pos pos- OS of ot a considerable amount of ot property both personal anI and govern mental Janis James Murray the son of ot ofa ota a Scottish peer lIfer Lord was Will wasa Willa a spirited high brave generous and Impulsive officer of scarcely more than thirty years rear at this time Ume lie He describes himself as II a soldier of to fortune fortune for for- tune and was wu certainly not rich yet now cow when many of ot the Canadian were being sold he ho managed managed managed man man- aged to purchase half a dozen vast estates Nairne and Fraser had bad little money monel with which to buy property but they bad had done good service anI and when they thel aspired to become seigneurs General Murray supported them The property was vested In the government for which Murray was Will authorized to act Nairne apparently apparently appa had greater resources than Fraser an and being now DOW captain was WU his hi senior in rank He Be asked for tor forthe forthe the more Important tract that lying on the right bank of the Murra Murray n river riv v. v er and stretching to the of Les Les Fraser contented contented con ton tented himself with the manor maDor lying on the left bank and extending some eighteen miles mile along the Saint Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence to the Riviere Noire about half halfway 0 way WI to The grants crant were were to el extend nd for three leagues into the Interior In order to to preserve pre pre preserve serve the name of ot their friend and patron atron Nairne called his hi seignior Murray bay bar anI and Fru Fraser r called hU his Mount Murray The village of ot L re La Malbaie lies between them I. I |