The Lady of Fort St. John — Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Sitting on the height which is now topped by a Martello tower at St. John in the maritime province of New Brunswick I saw¿not the opposite city not the lovely bay; but this tragedy of Marie de la Tour the tragedy ¿which recalls¿ (says the Abbe Casgrain in his ¿Pelerinage au pays d¿Evangeline¿) ¿the romances of Walter Scott and forces one to own that reality is stranger than fiction.