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60 CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. Dr. Spark, who died in 1819. In 1821 it was found inadequate for the accommodation of the members, when the Earl of Dalhousie was pleased to grant an additional space of ground, on which the presently enlarged church, which was completed in 1824, and a comfortable manse for the Minister, now stand. The Church accommodates thirteen hundred sitters.—In St. Francis Street stands St. John’s Church, previously a Congregational Chapel. It was erected in 1816. In 1830 the Congregation, having coni formed to the doctrine, discipline, pnd laws of the Church of Scotland, received the ministrations of a regularly ordained clergy man of that church. At the disruption of the Scottish Establish ment, a majority of the Congregation connected themselves with the Free Church of Scotland.—The Wesleyan Methodists have two Chapels, one in St. Anne Street, and the other in St. Louis Suburb, called the “ Centenary Chapel”. The Lower Town extends along the base of the precipice on the summit of which the Upper Tow n is built. The site is almost entirely the creation of human industry, having been gained by ex cavation from the base of the precipice, or redeemed from the River by building out into its waters. The towns are connected by Mountain Street, which was formerly almost impassable for carri ages. Foot passengers avail themselves of the shorter passage, po pularly known as the Break-neck Stairs. The wharves are very extensive, and are generally carried out upwards of two hundred yards into the River. The Chapel (Secoursale, i. e. in aid of the Parish Church,) standing in the Square, is of great antiquity, as it was built and used as a church before 1690. In that year Sir Wm. Phipps in attempting to capture Quebec was defeated; and the Fete of Notre Dame de Victoire was instituted for annual celebra tion in this church on the 7th of October. After the shipwreck of the English fleet in 1711, which was regarded by the inhabitants not only as a second victory but as a miraculous interposition in their favour, the church received its present name of Notre Dame des Victoires, that both events might be commemorated at once.—We may here notice the other Roman Catholic Churches, viz. that of the Congregation, on the hill leading from the Esplanade and St.
