gested, in 1822, the plan of the St. Charles River Docks—the first who took up the subject of rendering the St. Lawrence Rapids navigable higher than Montreal. The idea seemed so impracticable, and what was still worse, so new, that the far-seeing Mr. George, was at the time branded as non compos! and still for years the "Spartan," "Passport," "Champion" and other steamers have safely, ran these rapids daily every season!

James George had also suggested the practicability of wooden Railways or Tramways, with horses as locomotive power, forty years before the Civil Engineer Hulburt built the Gosford Wooden Railway, with steam as locomotive power.

"William Grant," of St. Roch’s, after whom Grant street was called, was member for the Upper Town of Quebec, during our two first Parliaments, from 17th December 1792, to 29th May 1800, and re-elected 9th January 1805; an enterprising and important personage in the little Scotch world of Quebec, was the Honorable Wm. Grant, he had landed in Quebec about 1762 and became an extensive holder of real Estate. When he married the widow of the third Baron de Longueuil in 1771, he was Receiver General of the Province; his death is recorded in the Quebec Mercury, on the 7th October, 1805.

"John Mure" represented the County of York, (Vaudreuil?) in three Parliaments, from 9th January 1805, to 26th February 1810, and was member for the Upper Town of Quebec from 1810 to 1814. A man of intelligence, he also, though a Presbyterian, became a benefactor to the R. C. Church, having in 1812, given to the parishioners of St. Roch’s whereon to erect their church, the site of the R. C. temple of worship, in that thriving suburb.