2-995-626 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Progress of the Prince of Wales in British North America - Quebec, Canada East - from a drawing by our special artist, G. H. Andrews, 1860. The future King Edward VII visits North America. 'This chief seaport and stronghold of military power in British North America is situated on a rock-bound promontory formed by the junction of the Rivers St. Lawrence and St. Charles, and was for a long time the capital of Canada. It is strongly fortified and garrisoned, completely commanding the navigation, and by military authorities is declared impregnable...The wharves, considering the trade and the large number of ships and craft of every kind that frequent the port, are very limited in extent, besides being disconnected and unsuitable for business; but on the side bounded by the River St. Charles ample shipping accommodation and great improvements may easily be made...her great business is shipbuilding and the lumber trade. She annually launches, rigged and equipped for sea, some thirty to forty vessels of varying tonnage (1000 to 2000 tons or more), and exports some 33,000,000 cubic feet of timber, besides ashes, lumber, and other produce of the country, amounting together in value to somewhere about 5,200,000 dols'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.