Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1911 — Canadian Heroine. [ARTICLE]

Canadian Heroine.

“Monument to Madeline de Vercheres to be erected at Vercheres — flfi.OOO.” This item, which appears for the first time this year in the estimates of the public works department, marks the tardy recognition by Canada £f one of the heroines of French Canadian history—the maid of fourteen, who for one long week in 1692 defended her father’s seigniory against the attacks of hostile Iroquois. After two centuries the little heroine of the Castle Dangerous la to have her memory perpetuated by a bronze statue to be erected at Vercheres. P. Q., op the spot made memprable by her exploit