He was for many years the representative in France of the Chapter of the Cathedral at Quebec, which held, from the Pope and the King, four or five abbeys in France.  His copious letters published by Mgr.  Tetu illustrate with some vividness details of the ecclesiastical life of the time.  For several years after the British conquest of Canada the Quebec Chapter continued to receive the revenues of the Abbey of Meaubec.  The elder Hazeur, less able than his brother, was Cure at Point aux Trembles.  An invalid, he spent his later years chiefly in Quebec.]

[Footnote 2:  Malcolm Fraser, an officer in the 78th Highlanders and afterwards first seigneur of Mount Murray, one of the two seigniories into which Malbaie was divided, was sent out on these ravaging expeditions.  Years after, some of Fraser’s neighbours of French origin rallied him on his capacity for devastation as shown at this time.  See Fraser’s Journal, Appendix A, p. 253, and the Memoires of Philippe Aubert de Gaspe, 1866, Ch.  II.]

CHAPTER II

THE TWO HIGHLAND SEIGNEURS AT MALBAIE

Pitt’s use of the Highlanders in the Seven Years’ War.—­The origin of Fraser’s Highlanders.—­The career of Lord Lovat.—­Lovat’s son Simon Fraser and other Frasers at Quebec.—­Malcolm Fraser and John Nairne, future seigneurs at Malbaie.—­The Highlanders and Wolfe’s victory.—­The Highlanders in the winter of 1759-60.—­Malcolm Fraser on Murray’s defeat in April, 1760.—­The return of Canadian seigneurs to France.—­General Murray buys Canadian seigniories.—­Nairne and Fraser at Malbaie.—­Their grants from Murray.

The great British fleet which has passed up beyond Malbaie to Quebec is important for our tale.  It carried men who have since become world famous; not only Wolfe but Jervis, afterward Lord St. Vincent, Cook, the great navigator, Guy Carleton, who saved Canada for Britain during the American Revolution, and many others of lesser though still considerable fame.  But for Malbaie the most interesting men in that great array were those connected with the 78th, or Fraser’s, Highlanders.  On the decks of the British ships were hundreds of these brawny, bare-legged and kilted sons of the north, speaking their native Gaelic, and on occasion harangued by their officers in that tongue.  A few years earlier many of them had served under Prince Charles Stuart to overthrow, if possible, King George II, and the house of Hanover; now they were fighting for that King against their old allies the French.  Unreal in truth had been the rising in behalf of the Stuarts.  Scotland had no grievances:  she did not wish to dissolve the union with England, and if the tyranny of any royal house troubled her it was that of the Stuarts, alien from most Scots in both religious and political thought.  But when, in 1745, some of the chieftains called out their clansmen, loyalty made these heed the summons, though half-heartedly.