French Associations.

There are the memories of the early days to give the human interest of history to the town; the stories of the French and English founders, the French names of streets and roads and hills that recall the days of L'Aube and Le Rhin and Commodore Lavaud and his compatriots, whose hopes of founding a new France here were dashed by the British annexation. The French flavour of the town is pronounced enough in this respect; there are some descendants of those immigrants of 1840 living on the sites of the original homes.