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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 31: the Workman's Paradise. (search)
name, like Hodge in England, and the colonists, though anxious to pay a compliment to Monsieur St. Jean, proposed to alter his name so far as to call their place St. Johns; a form which looks poetic in English eyes, and drops sonorously from English lips. Monsieur was hurt. He loved America so well that he named his daughter Amer too busy with their revolution to pay much attention to the graziers and bushmen on Sleeper's Creek. Thinking the consul false, the Scots changed their name to St. Johns. But then, there are several St. Johns in the neighbourhood; notably one on the Richlieu River; so by way of difference, they took the name of St. Johnsbury, a St. Johns in the neighbourhood; notably one on the Richlieu River; so by way of difference, they took the name of St. Johnsbury, a form in which the Gallic origin is completely lost In spite of much natural beauty, and a vast supply of water power, the place made little progress. Roads were bad and markets distant. Here and there some farmer built a hut, some grazier fenced a field. A fall of water tempted families into the lumber trade. A hostelry crow