Synopsis
Maple Leaves: A Budget Of Legendary, Historical, Critical, And Sporting Intelligence. 1St-7Th Ser — J. M. Le Moine presents a lavish, descriptive survey of prominent country seats around Quebec, blending landscape, architecture, family histories, and colonial-era lore. The work functions as an illustrated travelogue and historiography, interweaving portraits of estates with notes on French and British periods, battles, fortifications, and explorers. Through estates like Spencer Wood, Belmont, Beaumore, and Cataracoui, the volume chronicles how elite merchants and officials shaped rural Quebec as a cultural and economic hub, while reflecting on memory, myth, and the long arc of Canadian identity. The text alternates descriptive passages about gardens, grounds, and English garden styles with anecdotes, poems, and quotations that memorialize wars from Plains of Abraham to St. Foy, and the exploits of Cartier and Roberval. It also surveys feudal and noble lineages, private ownership, and the changing use of country seats—some decaying, others renewed as residences or public spaces. Overall, Maple Leaves celebrates heritage, landscape design, and the layered colonial past within a nationalist, romantic frame.
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