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Caption: The troop transport vessel Orentes leaving Quebec City on 11 November 1871

HMS Orontes was built as a steam-propelled troop-ship in 1862 by Liverpool shipbuilder Cammell Laird. This engraving from the 'Canadian Illustrated News' of 9 December 1871 shows the vessel departing from Quebec carrying the final Imperial garrison of Quebec. (Library and Archives Canada, C-056624)