Historic notes and Canadian medical lore : lecture memoranda ; British Medical Association, Toronto, 1906.

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1906
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Credit: Historic notes and Canadian medical lore : lecture memoranda ; British Medical Association, Toronto, 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The population of Quebec at this time scarcely num- bered a hundred souls, and Montreal and Three Rivers comprised but a few log huts. After three years the Colony was again restored to France by the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye, and Champlain returned once more to resume charge of the settlement. About 1638 the Hotel Dieu, probably the first hospital for reception of the sick in Canada, was founded, and in the year following, the Ursuline Convent for the education Of A Hospital founded girls was estab- lished. From 1650 the Colony was subjected to constant attacks from the Indians, who invested it for several months. The sett- lers, however, eventually drove them off, and as the population of the settle- ment had so increased as to form a town of consider- able importance, a force of regular troops was dis- patched from France for its protection. In the year 1663 a Royal Governor was appointed, and seven years later the See of Quebec was established, Francois de Laval, Abbot of Quebec Montigny, being installed as the first Bishop. founded Considerable jealousy had for some time existed between the French Colony of Quebec and the neighbouring settlement of New York, which then belonged to the British. Matters were brought to a crisis in 1690 by Count de Frontenac, the Governor of Quebec, who commenced hostilities with the British Colony. Retributive measures were speedily adopted, and a fleet of thirty-five vessels, under the phr.^lliam command of Sir William Phipps, arrived off besieges Quebec in October of the same year and Quebec summoned the garrison to surrender. Frontenac, however, Bishop of Quebec