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'The Span o' Life' is a historical fiction novel by Jean N. McIlwraith and William McLennan that takes readers on a journey through the ill-fated Rebellion of Prince Charles, following the story of Hugh Maxwell, Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, who finds himself in an obscure lodging in Soho, London. A chance encounter with a lady in distress sets off a chain of events that takes him on an unforgettable adventure to New France, where he makes both friends and enemies, falls in love, and experiences joy and sorrow.
Excerpt from The Span O' Life: A Tale of Louisbourg and Quebec Long habit has made the English names of many places and positions so familiar to many in Canada that to adhere to the French form in all instances would be as unnatural as to Anglicise all names throughout which will explain the lack of uniformity in this partie nlar. 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.
The reader familiar with the amusing memoirs of the Chevalier Johnstone will recognise in how far Maxwell was suggested thereby; if he be equally familiar with the detail of Canadian history of the period he will have little difficulty in discovering the originals of Sarennes and some of the secondary characters, and, in the Epilogue, the legend of the death of the celebrated missionary, le R. P. Jean Baptiste de la Brosse. But while the experience of some actual man or woman has suggested a type to be portrayed, it is only as a type, and with no intention of representing the individual in the character of the story. Nor is the attempt to set forth the respective attitude of the Canadian and the old-country Frenchman to be read as a personal expression of the authors', but as their conception of an unfortunate condition between colonist and official that obtained as fully in Canada as it did between the same classes in the English colonies. Long habit has made the English names of many places and positions so familiar to many in Canada that to adhere to the French form in all instances would be as unnatural as to Anglicise all names throughout-which will explain the lack of uniformity in this particular.
A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec. First published in 1899. Illustrated throughout.