On one trip to Quebec in the 1950s, I can vividly recall standing on the edge of the Plaines of Abraham in Québec City with my mother, Dorothy Wills. She held my hand firmly and seemed to have tears in her eyes. She spoke to me about what happened 200 years before on the site. I can't remember the details but I do remember she said this is where all the bad things happened and I shouldn't forget.
Daniel Lanois remembers too in this song....
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
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