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Show Ancient Canadian Castles. To Americans castles are nssoclatod with tho storied Rhine, picturesque England or Franco and Spain, but it Is Interesting to be reminded by tho St. John (P. i:. I ) News that thcro aro a number of undent Canadian castles still existing, the chief ones being St. Ours, Hlmouskl, St. Ens-tache, Ens-tache, Ixitblnlcro, Montlbcllo, Stc. Marie do la Ileance, Vaudrell, Hon-vlllo, Hon-vlllo, and, most Interesting of nil, tho Chateau tie Rnmc7uy at Montreal. The latter was built In 17C5 by Oor-trudo Oor-trudo de Hainezay, at that time governor gov-ernor of the district of Montreal and knight of tho Itojal and Military Order Or-der of St. Louis. From him was descended de-scended the last French governor of Quebec, at thu time of tho capitulation capitula-tion in 1759. |