Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Loyola College Review SENIORS Ronald MacDonald, Secretary David Asselin, Vice-President President H Albert Mellor Richard Ryan отап Francis Mercier, Valed:

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 4 REVIEW While danger lurked on every side, Тре angel of God was their belp and guide To protect them on their way. Until, one morning in tbe Spring, Upon this blessed sod The shining host was raised on high And 'neatb a blue Canadian sky Our bond, our compact and our tie Was made with tbe Lord our God. Frank HIGGINS, '44. MONTREAL By EDWIN BASSETT, '45 Т нь time was in the Spring of 1642. The scene was laid in the vicinity of the Montreal of today. Scouts of the Iroquois, ranging through this territory, saw a column of smoke leisurely curling up through the mild Spring air. Investigation revealed to them a new outpost of the hated white man. This must have seemed the height of audacity to those dusky skinned bar- barians; for this site lay far from Quebec, and one had only to scale a short distance ap the mountain side to see the peaks of the Adirondacks, the sentinels of the land of the Five Nations. There was a glint in the eyes of those warriors that boded ill for the infant settlement, a glint that said that soon the tiny settlement would be turned to smoky ashes; that soon its inhabitants would be in the happy hunting grounds of their grandfathers. The Iroquois did come, in bands of hundreds. But when they departed Ville-Marie remained, as before. The cruel winters of the north swept over the settlement. And amid the cold there were all the privations and hardships of the frontier. But in spite of all the tiny village continued to prosper and to grow. Their motive could not have men make such heroic sacrifices? What cause led them to spurn the comforts of their home lands and to seek out the perils, the hard- ships, and perhaps the death that awaited those who entered the wilderness that was New France? Their motive could not have been the desire of material wealth, for the frontier, especially the frontier of 1642, was not a place to attract those seeking the easy way to wealth. Nor did these men flee from persecution or punishment in their own country. They were neither outcasts nor culprits, but rather honest and respected citizens representing all walks of life. No. Their motive was a far greater one than greed; far more noble and inspiring than fear. They lived and worked and gave their all for love. Ville-Marie, later to become the metropolis of Montreal, had its beginning in the vision of Jérôme de la Dauversière. It was through the efforts of this noble man that there came into being the Compagnie de Notre-Dame de Montréal, through which the new settlement was financed and organized.

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