Soon after this Madame Cadillac, who had been left behind at Quebec, plunged into the wilderness to rejoin her husband.
It was a thousand miles in a birch bark canoe rowed by half-clad Indians, and the route was through a dense forest and over great waters swept by the September storms, but this brave woman undertook the journey attended by only a single female companion.
When subsequently reminded of its hazards and hardships, she simply replied: "A woman who loves her husband as she should, has no stronger attraction than his company, where ever he may be." The rich heritage we enjoy comes to us through the great efforts of patriotism and dogged perseverance of our ancestors (the fathers and mothers of the country).

As we in gratitude remember the former, let us not forget the latter.
Margaret Godfrey died in London about the year 1807, having survived her husband fully twenty years.

She was beloved by friends, and esteemed by all who came in contact with her.

She sank full of years undimmed by failure and unclouded by reverses.

Who can think of such persons as Mrs.
Godfrey without acknowledging that such are the true nobility of the human race! And now, when from the long distance of a hundred years or more, we look back upon the hardships and misfortunes endured by one family of the early colonists, we feel assured that pen and tongue can never make fully known to us or our posterity the extent of the misery and suffering of most of the early colonial settlers.[11] [Footnote 11: For a vivid account of the sufferings and hardships of the early Colonial settlers, I would refer the reader to Ryerson's excellent work, The Loyalists of America and their times.Vol.II.Chap.