Hill Notes adds to the collection of the stories about the hills south/southwest of Quebec City and the opening up of the territory. It provides another level of complexity to the author's prior books (Hill Search & Hill Tales). ***Further violence and tragedy discovered, as well as other intrigues as well: the terrible flood of 1818 now forgotten, cholera in the area, the oral tradition of the Irish family who lived in a cave (Did they?) and the archaeologists' assessments, Mob Law in Megantic and evidence of manors and canals....These are the further non-fiction accounts about the settlers and their lives. Eye-opening, but true!