Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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wandered about till he reached a hut at the back of the Mountain, where a strange fierce-looking man stood, sharpening a blood-stained axe. After some conversation, he swore his visitor to secrecy, and produced an old manuscript, from which he read a chapter, entitled Jealousy . The scene opened in a Church, where Leocadie, the heroine of the story, was kneeling in prayer. A handsome young man entered, and seeing the beautiful girl, in her light dress and rose-coloured ribbons, immediately fell in love with her. She allowed him to court her for three months, without telling him that she was engaged to a young man who was away from the City. When her fiance was about to return, the aunt with whom Leocadie lived, on Cote des Neiges, told him of the engagement. In his final interview with the girl, he pointed to the sun, which was as red as fire, saying, It is like blood that must flow. The next chapter, entitled Vengeance, told of the fiance ' s return and their approaching marriage. One fine Sunday the engaged couple walked on the Mountain, and were about to enter the Tower, when the sun became blood-red, and the rejected lover, who had been in the Tower, watching for them, stabbed Leocadie, and then strangled her fiance. After reading so far, the strange man put his hand in his pocket and drew forth a Locket, and showed Leocadie ' s hair on one side, and, on the reverse side, the writing of Joseph, the fiance, who had given the locket to the girl, when they became engaged. Mr. Albert Furniss, when a young man, was shown two empty graves 150 ft. below the site of the Tower, and was told by a local raconteur that they were the graves where the murdered lovers were buried, but, as a Cemetery had been proposed on this property, some time before, they were probably test pits made to see if the ground would be suitable for the purpose. The little grey Tower is now in ruins, and, no doubt, the lovers are resting peacefully in their graves, and no longer haunt the spot. MIR

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THE LEGEND OF THE TRAFALGAR TOWER HIS Tower was built in 1805 to commemorate the Victory of Trafalgar. For many X years it was supposed to be haunted, as mysterious footsteps were frequently heard by those who visited it, to see the fine view. In one of the two volumes of Canadiana , edited by W. J. White, M.A., President of the Society for Historical Studies, and published by the Gazette in 1889-1890, and now kept under lock and key in the McGill Library, there is a record of a storv written by M. Georges de Boucherville, Avocat, in 1835, which tells of the murder of two lovers, by the lady ' s rejected suitor. The story runs in this wise: — A young man said to a friend, Have you ever gone as far as the Priests ' Fort on the Mountain? If you have not, I warn you that when you go, you will have to pass through valleys, rough ground, and sombre thickets before you reach Cote des Neiges, and in the distance you will see a little grey Tower, peering from the summit of the Mountain. One fine morning the friend took his gun, and followed by his dog, went for a day ' s stroll on the Mountain. A terrible storm came on when he reached the little Tower, so he and his dog took refuge there. Being weary, he lay down and slept, but when he felt a hand pass over his face, he awoke trembling and was still more terrified, when he saw blood-stains on the floor. He fled, regardless of the storm, and, followed by his dog. [23]

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TRAFALGAR GRANDCHILDREN NOW IN THE SCHOOL Front Row (Left to Right) : Ann Soper, Elise Macklaier, Joan Macklaier, Daintry Chisholni, Natalie Chisholm, Sally Pitfield, Harriet Anderson. Second Row: Margaret Fisher, Charlotte Robertson, Peggy Muir, Marian Reward, Peggy Elder. Third Row: Maude Fox, Mavis Paton, Faith Lyman, Elvira Holden. Fourth Row: Betty Eraser, Mary Holden, Joan Redpath. Top Row: Mary Morris, Jane Seely, Marjorie Robinson, Mary Le Mercier, Joan Robertson. [25]