CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2, by Richard Henry Bonnycastle This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Author: Richard Henry Bonnycastle Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2, by 1 Release Date: April 30, 2007 [EBook #21260] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CANADA AND THE CANADIANS, VOL. 2 *** Produced by Robert Cicconetti, David T. Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) CANADA AND THE CANADIANS. BY SIR RICHARD HENRY BONNYCASTLE, KT., LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROYAL ENGINEERS AND MILITIA OF CANADA WEST. NEW EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1849. Frederick Shoberl, Junior, Printer to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2, by 2 CHAPTER X. Return to Toronto, after a flight to Lake Superior Loons natural Diving Bells Birds caught with hooks at the bottom of Niagara River Ice-jam Affecting story Trust well placed Fast Steamer Trip to Hamilton Kékéquawkonnaby, alias Peter Jones John Bull and the Ojibbeways Port Credit, Oakville, Bronte, Wellington Square Burlington Bay and Canal Hamilton Ancaster Immense expenditure on Public Works Value of the Union of Canada with Britain, not likely to lead to a Repeal Mackenzie's fate Family Compact Church and Kirk Free Church and High Church The Vital Principle The University President Polk, Oregon, and Canada Page 1 CHAPTER X. 3 CHAPTER XI. Ekfrid and Saxonisms Greek unde derivaturs The Grand River Brantford Plaster of Paris Mohawks Dutch forgetfulness George the Third, a Republican King Church of the Indians The Five Nations A good Samaritan denies a drop of water Loafers Keep your Temper, a story of the Army of Occupation Tortoise in trouble Burford 51 CHAPTER XI. 4 CHAPTER XII. Woodstock Brock District Little England Aristocratic Society in the Bush How to settle in Canada as a Gentleman should do Reader, did you ever Log? Life in the Bush The true Backwoods 75 CHAPTER XII. 5 CHAPTER XIII. Beachville Ingersoll Dorchester Plank road Westminster Hall London The great Fire of London Longwoods Delaware The Pious, glorious, and immortal Memory Moncey The German Flats Tecumseh Moravian settlement Thamesville The Mourning Dove The War, the War Might against Right Cigar-smoking and all sorts of curiosity Young Thames The Albion The loyal Western District America as it now is 95 CHAPTER XIII. 6 CHAPTER XIV. Intense Heat Pigs, the Scavengers of Canada Dutch Country Moravian Indians Young Father Thames Ague, a cure for Consumption Wild Horses Immense Marsh 125 CHAPTER XIV. 7 CHAPTER XV. Why Engineer-officers have little leisure for Book-making Caution against iced water Lake St. Clair in a Thunderstorm A Steaming Dinner Detroit river and town Windsor Sandwich Yankee Driver Amherstburgh French Canadian Politeness Courtesy not costly Good effects of the practice of it illustrated Naked Indians Origin of the Indians derived from Asia Piratical attempt and Monument at Amherstburgh Canadians not disposed to turn Yankees Present state of public opinion in those Provinces Policy of the Government Loyalty of the People 132 CHAPTER XV. 8 CHAPTER XVI. The Thames Steamer Torrid Night "The Lady that helped" and her Stays Port Stanley Buffalo City Its Commercial Prosperity Newspaper Advertisements Hatred to England and encouragement of Desertion General Crispianus Lake Erie in a rage Benjamin Lett Auburn Penitentiary Crime and Vice in the Canadas Independence of Servants Penitentiaries unfit for juvenile offenders Inefficiency of the Police Insolence of Cabmen Carters English rule of the road reversed Return to Toronto 168 CHAPTER XVI. 9 CHAPTER XVII. Equipage for a Canadian Gentleman Farmer Superiority of certain iron tools made in the United States to English Prices of Farming Implements and Stock Prices of Produce Local and Municipal Administration Courts of Law Excursion to the River Trent Bay of Quinte Prince Edward's Island Belleville Political Parsons A Democratic Bible needed Arrogance of American politicians Trent Port Brighton Murray Canal in embryo Trent River Percy and Percy Landing Forest Road A Neck-or-nothing Leap Another perilous leap, and advice about leaping Life in the Bush exemplified in the History of a Settler Seymour West Prices of Land near the Trent System of Barter Crow Bay Wild Rice Healy's Falls Forsaken Dwellings 205 CHAPTER XVII. 10 [...]... conducted the usual service, which was preceded by a procession of the Indians, who, singing a hymn, led the way from the wharf where the clergy and visitors had landed from the steamers, past the old church, through the grounds appropriated for their clergyman's house, and then, ascending the hill westward, they crossed the Indian Graves, and reached the site of their new temple Te Deum and the Hundredth... without the chandler, the butcher, the baker, the huxter, and the grocer! Tea, a little sugar and coffee, these are your real luxuries Soap you make out of the ley of your own potash; fat you get from your pigs or your sheep, which supply you with candles and food; and by and by the good ox and the fatted calf, the turkey, the goose, and the chicken, give your frugal board an air of gourmandism; whilst... arrive in Canada They purchase cheap land far in the interior, miles away from any town They build a log-hut, clear their land, and accumulate gradually the furniture and household goods Toil, toil, toil The log-hut is enlarged The mother and daughters are invited from home to join their "life in the Bush." They are expected Everything is made comfortable for them The brothers are chopping in the woods... Highlanders and of Lowlanders CHAPTER X 22 The British public must not be misled by the hard-sounding language and the vast expenditure of words it may have to receive, in the perusal of either the High Church, or the Presbyterian fulminators in Canada West The whole hinges on what the writer calls "the vital question," namely, upon the university of Canada at Toronto being a free or a close borough The. .. that the widow and the orphan, the houseless and the maimed, cry aloud against the remorseless one How many there are now living in Canada, whose lives have been rendered miserable, from their losses, or from injured health, during the watchings and wardings of 1837, 1838, 1839, during the long winter nights of such a climate, during the rains and damps of the spring and of the fall time of the year, and. .. and felt only the desire to fly at once, and again to breathe freely, away from what he felt to be the restraints of civilization He was taken to the cathedral, where he saw the pictures, the paintings on the roof, and all the ornaments of the church they were explained to him, and he prayed before the high altar and that of the Holy Virgin He believed all the instructions of the Church, and was sufficiently... erected by them on the banks of the Bay of Quinte, in the township of Tyendinaga, or the Indian woods It is of stone, with a handsome tin-covered spire, and replaces the original wooden edifice they had erected on their first landing, the first altar of their pilgrimage, which was in complete decay They held a council, and the chief made this remarkable speech, after having heard all the ways and means... and temperate, and here may be seen the strange spectacle, elsewhere in the neighbourhood of the white man so rare of unmixed blood But the Whites amongst them nevertheless are not of the best sample of the race, as a great number of restless American borderers have fixed their tents near the Grand River, and they have managed to get a good deal of their property and lands, although in Canada it is illegal... gentlemen," said the officer, "to the brim, as I filled mine." They did so, and he said "A la santé de Napoléon deux," which was then a favourite way with the French Imperialists of toasting his son The effect was electric The most insolent and violent of the vieux moustaches took up the stool he was sitting upon and threw it through the window; the glasses followed; and then he went round and embraced the proposer... suffer, by war with the United States, or by separation from England? The interests of the United States and the interests of England would no doubt mutually suffer, but the former power, if it annexed Canada, would most severely feel the result England would then close the ports of the St Lawrence, as well as those of the seaboard from Quebec to Galveston; nor would the Nova Scotian and New Brunswick . under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Author: Richard Henry Bonnycastle Canada and the Canadians,. 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