The History of Shefford

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Excerpt from The History of Shefford: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Statistical As in all new countries, the first permanent settlements in Canada were made along the large rivers which communicate with the ocean, and afforded the only means of penetrating the wild wastes of the newly discovered land. Quebec had sprung up, grown old, and its name been familiar for more than a century at the Courts of the French and English Monarchs - it had been beleaguered by hostile armies and had won a proud place in historic annals, Ville Marie had expanded into a city, and had figured in wars with the Iroquois, the English and the French, Three Rivers, Sillery, St. Joseph and St. Mary, had also become famous in Canadian history, while the country east of the Eichclieu, now forming a part of the Eastern Townships, was in "the lap of savage desolation." A broad tract of country possessed of great fertility of soil, rich in mineral deposits, blessed with perennial streams, dotted with beautiful lakes, unsurpassed in the grandeur of its scenery - a territory yet to be acknowledged the "Garden of Canada, " was unknown to the civilized world till more than a quarter of a century after the triple cross banner of England had supplanted the fleur de lis of France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.