Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — MEMORIAL DAY AT QUEBEC. [ARTICLE]

MEMORIAL DAY AT QUEBEC.

English anil American Sailors March Together in Canada. Wednesday was a memorable day in Quebec’s history. Representatives of three great nations the United States, Great Britain and France—united to honor the memory of Samuel Champlain, the intrepid explorer who founded that city in 1608 and died there twenty-seven years later. The United States protected cruiser Marblehead, (’apt. Met'alla. was sent there specially by the American Government. The spectacle was witnessed of American and British bluejackets nitirrhing in procession through the streets of Canada's ancient capital and standing shoulder to shoulder in the square round Champlain’s monument. All the American commissioners were present.