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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1940-10-04, Page 6D. ANTHONY VanEGMO•ND The Story of 1837 in Huron County By WILFRED BRENTON KERR, HULA„ Ph.D. ikeeociate Professor of History, University of Buffalo, N. Y., 194Q. Chapter VII VAN. EGMO'ND ,AND WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE -(Continued) The taint of disloyalty about the Re iw n Party and the quite un -British ca"araeter of his 'own career had ruin- ed Van, Egmond's hopes of election "as representative of Huron, and the Colborne men diad been the chief, ag- I sets of this defeat. But he rifles not f seem 'to have understood these facts. In dais papers he. wrote that if lie 'had been a member of the assembly,' liot would,have tried to force the Can- ada Colnliaty to do jrlstice to the set- tlers. Jones knew he would do so and Jones worked strenuously to prevent his success. Nn Roman Cath- olic' ever exerted himself so etrenu- ously to keep the evil one et a dis- rl assure I tasty bread ever • time e .. ecause m ...aye pure... .full . stre:n t g.l� tutees IN CANADA t` tance by signs of the eroas, he says, as did Jones to keep him away from the floor of the assembly., His (Jones') account was an important victory to the Company, a reverse to the settlers,6 Again, he declares that James has made reformers by the hundreds; he is the next best to John Burnell in this business. The best way to put down reform would be to bribe Jones and Burnell to turn re- formers themselvea,o We 'may re- mark that no doubt Jones area . oppos- ed to Van )gmtond's election, but he was a small faceor in the outcome as compared with the men of Colborne: Van, Egmond failed to grasp the mo- tives of the Golbornites or their -po- litical importance in 'the new com- munity of Huron. Van Egmond's political leanings are sufficiently indicated in his, writings, published and un+publistbed. In one place he asserts that he is an ex- e,oldder of thirty' -'years' schooling ,and practise but lie' than always thought the pacificator a nobler. man than the military hero. The political conten- tions of parties in Europe, he says, like those of the red and white ros- es, the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, the Tories and Whigs, were all be- tween two castes, the ins and outs, both holding Jae mass of the nation under their thumbs and dreading rev- olutions. As lean and weak horses are not apt to overthrow their rid- ers, these two castes kept,the people weak to enrich 'themselves out of the sweat of the brows of the producing and m:anufacturien•g classes. In his• interest in' peace and in the welfare et the mass. of .,the people. Van Eg- mond appears as • • a Liberal .of the European type,to- But he found diffi- culty in applying his principles tai tile case of Upper Canada, In spite arable membership in the Reform Darty, he was no hot partisan until ! 1R36 at least. • In his papers he cen- sures the company and th'e ultra - Tories, more sly and cunning, who 'l;ossess generally more lands sea more means for increasing their hold- ings. But he gives credit to many honest and truly :patrioti•c Tories for sympathy with his desire to publfsh the Company's arharte•r over the pro- vince. He thinks, thowever, that they wanted to use 'him for party purpos- es and remarks on the general re- luctance in• Upper Canada to do any- thing. Its 'people are like the pro- f verbial cat who .would eat fish and (would not wet her fatten Here again Van Egmond shows his misunder- standing of, sentiment in the province concerned primarily about the con- r-+rction•witth Great Britain and inclin- : d to look on troubles like the mat- ter of the .Canada Company • as of ,miner importance, especially' .after the faulty presentation of it by Van Edmond himself. Even the Reform party • did not greatly rouse his enttbuaiasm in the middle of 1837. • In July of that year Mckenzie began, to publish open calls to revolt, and ie August he made a totir of the counties about Tworonto, • addressing meetings, and privately trying to •organize a revolt. His ,progress was attended with some disorder, partisans of each side com- ing to blows, • and these occurrences rouse a i;ea,srlxal- + ar,elaurrt iia offer . a ?n'g 'Stated, kris . view a ' pX Strtltmes i 1 ttna'pe, as. w,e. 1rave e,*Piaitteck Where 'tub factioiue a seed-to•-leeftP tbealleolIe Weak for, their awn pnoftt, he wrote that in iIppee Canada the , x,everete was ,,,the cease. I%ere'. tie opnteleding parties, berth enlist 400111001e 01110 b1e characters, sans -chemises (shrit'tless" persons), sans-culottes (breechlesst persons), sans -shoes, even the Most worthless beings, and he cautioned both sides that these contentions would rola the province and not be gettled until one pa,rtyl should e't-y for mercy. Van Eg' mood's mind was filled with the great struggles of recent European history and he had little respect for the pet- ty squabbles of Upper Canada of the 1830'x.12 Nevertheless, by September ot 1837 he had made up his mind that, the troubles of Huron under Company rule could be remedied only by a re- volt, and this decision is, recorded in a letter to Mackenzie's. paper, The Constitution., His past writing, "he says, has been iat favor of reconcilia- tion until 1836, when he began to feel that it was of no avail. If ever we ezign petitions again, -'lie continues, let it be to send conjurors among us to banish evil spirits; "I have found Very few men in this province with, hearts in their bosoms; I advise ev- ery male in Upper Canada to dress in: petticoats and go to the spinning vohheel." Phe cancelling by Sir Fran- cis Head of fifty-seven rectories en- dowed by Oolboxtne was a mere tin- kering, dust in the eyes of the peo- ple. This, however, would have but little ,effect on the weak "and none at all on the strong-minded among us." Ancient and modern histories and "our own experiences" teach -that our present disease requires the strongest of remedies"; we, the pat- ients, need a radical cure, no pallia- tives, humbugs: Xhis letter cotliinit- ted Van Egmond to Mackenzie's movement for nevelt; and it again il- lustrates his shortage of tact and common. sense, in .b_oping to win over Upper • Canadians by calling. tls.ern.. weaklings and women. Van Egmond's dealings' with' Moen are often --of the• sort one expects from a boy of 18, rather than an elderly man nearly seventy.lz Ulackenzie of course •gladly weloom- ed the adthesion, of Van. Egmond 'to his cause, and eventually asked him to become commander of the rebel forces. Van Egmond oonsented and I busied himself in Huron trying to prepare a revolt. As the Misses Liz - ars say, he told the farmers more their once that if they wanted any- thing, they would •have to• fight. for it.14 'Mackenzie's group now discoY- et ed ..what they thought was a fresh constitutional issue. The Legislature had passed an act to do away with the traditional esoletion and elec- tion at the death of a -queen or king, - and accordingly at the death of Wil- liam IV and the accession of 'Vic- toria,, ne election took place: The ex- treme Reformers- -denounced the act as unconstitutional and void ,and call- ed for the. customary election. The assembly,' thowever, had acted well within its pewees a'nd took no notice of rite .demands- Mackenzie now ask - el the Reformers of the province to elect delegates .to a convention to meet in Toronto on December 21. 1837, ' for which ,he drew . u•p a purely Re,^.'ublican grogram. • ,Van Egmond therefore gathered some sympathizers described as "a large majority of the .inhabitants" to a meeting in Huron, doubtless at his home, on November 10, .1837, They resolved on, respond to Maekenzie'e, call and to send two delegates to the convention„ of whom Van Egmond treuld. certainly be one. This done, 'they passed a set of resolutions "that of all BUSINESS. IS BUSINES :fir,`%f ✓',. i::. a,;;;* ''' ALITTLE steam lifts the lid of your tea kettle. A lot of steam drives Tf trains, machinery. Your bank deposit may be little, but it combines with millions of otters to make a lot of "stem". It helps to run the nation's machinery of production, marketing, employment, business. It is important indeed to the country'§ war financing and war -time effort. The money is yours yet it helps provide the credit necessary to move the goods and services of the nation. tQ Canada's chartered banks thus perform func- tions of great usefulness. They receive the deposits of millions of Cana- dians, and extend credit to individuals, governments, businessmen and marketing orgaltiiuti'ons. The small' depositor is important to the banks. The "little -fellow", popularly so -stalled,' is welcomed by any bank, as a CUstbrner; war, in peace, Canada's' Chartered Banks maintain, inflater - their useftltl services— safeguarding depositors' funds; ., lg the .natibtes, bi siness looking foMatti' to peace eadoin as the only sure basis. of *wing prosperity. AI RED BANKS O' CANADA although;; aa'jeeted as war 't 1cl e micet 'sweets• slavery mid opi**04 of 04 ' #en:ained Camede..s Rut , 9', batt b� in fact end in deeds a d of . to a i ba ittl -nes[e a 'a - g. ,� ted . rid it?ethl4e . behoves :t us toshow to world �te�, the that we . etsosseso: senses and hearts sufficierlti Strong and scrawl to pere, ample otte (duties as free -feeling cQ- inhabitaazta,•v of tthis provtrce by de- claripg as-~, hereby do, the statute act C. Wit•,; 7 Wrlliarn IV, A -S, 1837 (abolttign. rpf, the electiOZP' at the death of the ruler) as hein'g he our opinion anti -constitutional and as :plainly showing; the cowardice sof the m,ajbr- ity in ottr: `house of as'senbly, again to meet their constituents, and thatwhereas by,this illegal act it has be- come xnaniie3t that the .people of this province ate no longer represented. in a Parliament first got up by bribes• and other unlawful means and again, self-appointed by the aforesaid act, they. are no longer neither (expect- ed?) to maser in fact. ought to pay un - e'er the generally adopted principle "taxation, without representation is tyranny" .any taxes (while that ille: gal Rouse, of Commons does exist) solely serving and applied to, satisfy the canine hunger of officials, ,! •great part of them in ehanaoter and deed's the very rabble of the eountry,, al- ways enjoying- their golden days in times of tyranny and plunder,' Resolved that unrepresented as the Teeple are in our Provincial Parlia- ment and. of course without legal pro- tection also, this meeting expresses the' full and moral oonviiotion that a provincial convention s'hotild soon be convened and be acting, in order to pi event this province from • becoming a skeleton or carcass not worth doing anything for anyantore and that, how- ever poor in ready cash to bear thecvpendlitres (we are), two members to that convention shall be sent from this county." James Kline signed this document as secretary, but the hand that "wiote it could be no other than that of Anthony Van Egmond, and it W.,s doubtless he who inserted it in the Constitution, Mackenzie's paper. "Ta..lu'dge froru.,the sequel, We must suppose that only a.- handful of. men attended this.. meetitg 'and perhaps even Van Egmond's sons were not there. • Huron wduld have no part, in a revolt against the British Empire, Leal•- no mere. woul .the province at large. 'This fact, m st have been known toVanEaton, : when be- gmd he wailed the spinelessness of the men 'of Upper Can•ada.r5 - Yet •lte persisted in his adherence so lliack•enzie and the 'pl'ans for an armed uprising- Having received let- ters from this man, in the third week in November°`. he set in. to Toronto,' taking with him the drafts for his publication against the company. - He left Ross 'about Nov. 22•nd or 23rd. Or. the 25th be was at Everitt's „tav- ern near Galt, ,and here he ' incau- tiously displayed his letters from Mackenzie and• declared that the pro- vinee, would have another government' before a month was out. Everitt told Maines. Craig, f Galt,who_infiormed the government 'after the rebellion,16 Van Egmond proceeded to Toronto, had his manifesto printed' and got al- to touch with some of Mackenzie's aides. He made arrangemlents with thtse men Zo be in Mackenzie's camp on i hurs'dayy;' December 7th, and re- turned in a hurry to ,his =home, which he had reached by November 30th or December 1, 1837. Here Van Egmond found a letter from T. M. Jones awaiting him, and he saw Dr. Vernal who learned that he intended to return -'-Toronto and asked •h•im to perform some service. Van Egmond took with him a parcel of Agricultural Bank 'bills which the hoped to exchange in 'the capital. He must have informed his family of • his intentions, but he -took none of them with .him and it appears that his son, Constant, disapproved of the venture. He set out on Saturday morning, De- cember 2nd, assuring himself of plen- ty of time far tihe trip to Yonge St. That night he was at Seebach's tav- -ern at Sebringville.. The nelttday he: pnoceeded to Andrew Helmer's in North Easthope and stayed there 'that night of Sunday, December" 3rd, Mon, - day, the 4th, he was on his way to Preston's tavern byI• Waterloo; where ,be remained for the night. On Tues- day, the 5th, he continued( to a tavern whose name appears to be Toone and is described as being on the moun- tain, i.e. in the.•region of Waterdown- Hamil•ton. From Teens he rode for- ward toward Toronto on Wednesday, the.6th. •He'stopped"at a tavern about half way between Toone and the Humber for a .short while, and wrote a, letter to Jones; then proceeded to a point about two or three miles a- bove the Humber, whdoh be reached about an hour after dark, i.e. about six o'clock. Here the met four of M lackenzie's men who had been sent to meet him and escort him to the camp at Montgomery's tavern, on ,Yonge Street. They book himinto a house, probably for consultation and a rest, and set out again about one o'clock in the Meaning. About 8 a.m.; Thursday;'Decem'ber 7th, Van Eg- mond and this escort rtidte 'into -Mac; kenzie's cramp, fulfilling exactly the promise he had given a week or more before. ' He found' the rebel. force in a des- perate 'case. Mackenzie had: gather- ed' only a few hundreds of men in- stead of the four or five thousand for whom he bad hoped. Ae had order- ed an attack .on Toronto which has dissolaedl in a panic of both sides, and retired to Montgomery% where he' was quite at a lose and many b$ his .men deserted._ Governor Head had no regular force to meet the re - bele, baying sent the garrisons to Lower Canada agaliiiat Papineau. But as soon as Mackenzie had. taken to arms, the • Upper ..Canadians made, their opinion plain, and thousands of I farmers poured into Toronto from all quarters, especia111' the east, determ- ined, to crush...disloyalty and separ- atism. Head Sound a cofr1moatnder who was well fitted for •this job, Jamo Fitzgibbon, veteran of 1812„ and hero of Beaver Dame. FitzGbbon soon or- ganized a farce muchsttpemior to that of the rebels. and . led them .out of Toronto that very. day, Thtiredtay; December 1; 101. • In these eirell fatstpideea ilhe rebel leaders, Mackenzie,MatoFieteber, Samuel Lount..1)traid Gdhslon,_, were glad. to nee Vats Et g�blaited -Who maid give them' some "ni litarY a,dviee. 'Mel* had breakfast with shim. in John Mlgnt. gemery1e 'permeate mete and held ' a council afterward: Meek -omit plopst, 40. ori ea iutxtuuh,40, ',t::' pctQn_ •e., Quos, as awe•: t ; vo,.l .. 'te fee sesta ,:. hat. n xtiPa '- e! blarallre t ' tris a •,W ? 10017 1y4 .;quad:' . , .. k ;.04ner • ►?1: stark madness e,'s tb had a 'y' 1/and I►f' Mae1 er4zler's� went ' lio oalpr4ed about '2`f0 mere alltogetheer. an'd hit.,se ht t Moat' lery'e , ! here�.Qibsol -al-equipped-•--igaekencie .e.:x ei 0-4 d aaxr dein ft; -•xePifoahbe i' the men for with. .w ath and threatened to esti t eapttuing him awl asaLgsed. 'h1za• a his guest. but the other calmed him selaaraate• soma, i'n flits laver Moen down. Van ' Egmond ' then proposed consulted-. him -about getting clear of that no latteinpt be made Oa Toronto the affair and Vaa Eggaand'. told Blasts until renfdircernents should have ar-oto la,y down arms and s!un'reuden, Both rived, and that 'meanwhile a diver- „Olblson sad` Lovett, a»provedr of this' sin shlonl4 be planned to occupy the course and looked wretched but hest - ea attest of the government troo ... ps. , toted for fear of Mac kenZi.e. They This plan was 'adopted, weft Peter i . agreed to call a Council, however, and Matthews, of Pickering, was ordered i When it was over they sunainoned to go to -the Don Bridge with fifty 1 Van Egmend to the•.doier:' Here Mac - or sixty mien, burn the bridge, inter- kenzie offered hitt the command but sept, the mail and otherwise adver- he refused- Nevertheless, Mackenzie tise :his presence: By Van Egmend's I made the people believe that Van aceotdnt Mao}teuzie bad to take a •Egmond wlould lead the,and threat - man named Aadersain by dile collar I ened him if he undeceived them. All and drive him oft ,witch, thenJ• to stovl9•• this occurred a half •or three-quarters the way, and all displayed reloc- l of. an hour before the attack of the tance. By the same account, Gibson Loyalists. • sought a private conference. with -Van I Thia setory cannot' be -accepted, blow- Egrntgnd, said that •Maclt:enzie was ever'; there is too muoh evidence raving Mad, that he (Gibson) repeat- against it and it is inconceivable that Mackenzie would ' have offered • the command to a chance prisoner of un- certain sympathies, as Van Egmont} atseerts himself to have been. He could - hardly have been acquitted) at a formai trial., but he was not to un- dergo any judi-cial process. Shortly after;the 21st he fell i11 of a. compli- ed, that he head had anything to do with the revolt and asked how they could get out of the affair. Van Eg- mond told hi.m to send a flag of truce, offer to lay down arms and swear new allegiance. The, truth of these statements' 1s. uncertain, asthey oc- cur in Van' Egmo.niils apology--Mitch- is in part a fiction, but there .is no• cation of maladies, in particular in- flammatory rheumtatism. He was re- moved to hospital, and 'here ' Ile laps: ed into unconsciousness.. and passed away on December 30, 1837. His son, Constant, brought his remnainee hone, and on the road the, coffin was twice broken open by militia men on the pretext of a search for arms. The About noon a scout arrived with body was burieJ across the road. news that the government troops from Ross and was later removed to were moving north Prem' the Paella- Egmondville Cemetery where,n„ehape- ment Buildings, and a few minutes ly marble slab marks the grave to the later sentinels saw them coming over present day.22 the brow• of Gallows Dill. Mackenzie None of his friends of the 'Huron and Van Egmond thereupon mounted 1Trdon Society would have any part in horses and rode south • until they the revolt, riot even Janes Kline who, could see' for themselves; then re- had feigned .the rebellious., resolutions turned to the Tavern and: prepared of the recent •meeting.• ' They were fon tbee'fight. Van Egmond made his too loyal: to take up arm's, and after di•spositiens; he placed 150 men in the event they soui;nt enerely_tp .pal,-, a .wood 150 yards went of Yonge St., liate the actions of theirdead leader. i•alf a mile south of` the tavern and "Blaine Van Egmond"" asked one; •'I sixty Pothers, in a field to the east. blame the Family 'Compact a devilish The rest of the rebels, being 'unarm- sight mere than I blame him,°' His ed, stood beside the tavern or sought sight in the revolt was loot to safety in it. . .- I be justified• but might he excused. Presently' the Government forces The Van Egmond family were for 'a were at hand. • They placed two' guns' tong time reticent about the connec-• on the west side,of Yonge Street and • time with W. • L. 'rlladaeuzie• and the opened ,fire on the woods where Van air of Montgomery's.. tavern. The doubt that Gibson was fearful. Nev- ertheless, all persevered with their plan.17 Van, Egmond held a review of the teen and found that only bait of them had pikes or guns, the rest nothing worth mentioning. He gave some general dire.otione in case of an attack, and could do nothing. more. Egmond had stationed his men. The trees aned the brush heaps were a fair -protection,' however, and little loss If tiny was suffered, blot the rush of the balls 'and the crash of the branchesp alarmedt the men and caused some confusion. Van Eg- m•ond ands Fount were' trying to di- rect the defence,- but soon saw the Loyalists advancing • in -such force 'that the position could not be held. They gave the 'word to the men to save themselves, knowing that all was lost. Almost before the word was uttered, the insurgents• stream: -- ed out orf the, wad and Scattered to the norph, Vanwood Egmond and Lount last of all, The Loyalist gunners now advanced, set up their weapons again and sent two shots through the tavern. The men ia.sidte poured.' out, •irt •fright and fled into the 'forest The skdrmis,h (had sleeted fifteen or tw'en'ty minutes. • One of Mackenzie's melt was . killed; :,four., fatally wound - et ; iso, Government soldier was more than scratched. Van, Egu and had one advantage in the rout, this horse. He rode up to a group who were deliberating whether to fly togetther. or , separately, but at this. moment they saw the smoke from the burning tavern and fled in all directions. 'Van Egmtond with some companions 'made .his Way ,to ' the north. Near the Golden Lion Inn, 1 four miles tiortth of M:ontgermery's, they enoountered Mackenzie' and Flet cher. The 'group 'herd •a hurried dis- I.eussioir; ratified the''sauve quf-peat and "agreed to try to reach the Nia- gar a, frontier. Mackenzie, succeeded in doing this, but. Van. Egmond, over- ocrme wjth fatigue, sought refuge on a n;eigbbioring .farm. But a detach- ment of Loyalists arrived, 'searched ' the place, found the Dutchman and ' took •:him 'to' Toronto jail i8 The authorities desired first to °make sure of their identifications. On December 12th, they ordered Van Eg-. mond and twelve others', including Lount, to be taken before the wit- nesses, in the 'hospital without delay.i5 This -was done, and Van Egmlond Was brought before• a dying insurgent. He touched the �tnlan's foot 'as a request not to betray him, But, as the Miss- es Lizars say, the effort .,failed; the roan replied, "Why do you push • my feat, Colonel Van Egmond? 1 am a eying' man; 1 cannot- die with a lie in my mouth. Yon w ere with us and war c to have commanded us at Mont- gomery's' tavern bt.t you did not ar- rive in time." Van Emend was ac- cordingly well identified• and sent back to jeil.to Here he sought ways' and: means of escaping from his difficulties. He head 'had so little to do, with the' re- bellion and had .arrived so late that deceit might •be , sumr'essful, and he 'imagined that lie might pose as a mere bystander, 'caught in the rout ''of the rebels by accident. He found the jail , uncon lortable and appealed: to the commissioners of the court of enquiry in 'a 'letter of December 21, 1837. He protested that hes' felt clear of any infraction of the laws !of the ' country and, asked for an immediate hearing. - He pleaded ' that he was rapidly advancing eta the age of sev- enty; had the use of but one arm, I one leg and tone eye; bad hand+ a bon sutnptien for eighteen Months and Iwas, reduced to a mere skeleton. Ile complained ar•f the .aceomenodlation In the jail, 'saying that he had no rag Of this own to rest on or lie on at alight, and no food except the, prison bread and the little given him by Other prisoners. He was "quite in- nocently incarcerated" and repeated his prrayer, soon to be Palled and in, vestigatedt.zt 'Ithe cot, tt iesioners re- ceived' the letter and sent an offieial and perhaps a eterk'to take MS state !menta, which were given in ,the form of a 'document and hale beers: pminted as Van Egtteend'es apology in the Ono tarto liistot1 al ,, Society's. Papers ' and Recotd!s g CiII, .p..110103. -- neis ver sa ie that rh,e was proe'eedy. ing to Toronto on -business to change the Agrieultural Dank bilis and to ch,-ry out Vevval'ts wlehes, that he made the journey and etlayeed at the eldest son, ,Oon'stant, would not al- low a volley to be fired over the grave in military fashion, "because my father was Mackenzie's general:23. Much .water, thowever, has passed( un- der the bridges of Huron sines 1837 and Van Egmond's convection' -with the disturbances of that year no long- er carries any impiicati'oti of dis- grace. He was not disaffected to- war:l •the British Empire in the same rseeee as Lount' a.i„d Mackenzie. Prim= airily -he wanted- to build up Canada, and he fell into rebellion only by act cident, from the quarrel with Jonge and from a foreigner's misunder- standing of . the sentiments ot. the Canadian' people: This as' the t: axedy of •Anthony Van Egmond. But now the risen and women of Huron Wray well continue e to htat or the memory of the man who gave his heartosoul and purse to the infant settlement 6f the county and who deserves the title "father of the Huron Tract” Tthe story of ' the years 1836-37 ill' Huron reflects that of the province at large. The settlers. had their difficul- with the 'company, the agents and their policies on sale of land and ,pub- lic works, and they too felt the pinch �YtlA�,ttt■h0 Feet a aril intmeA1 of the financial eriaie 0f 18d7. Sat for the sake Of the Empire they oue up with all inconveniences. Not onlir would they •havenothingto do with rebellion, but they' joined in the prov- ince -wide uprising against the rebels . The militia sof Huron, led by the men Of Colborne, went to the, frontier at carnia and guarded it through the winter of 1837-38 against Mackent4iePe so-called patriots and. their "American 'friends. Theyeaw-.po action but they did their duty and won. high praise by their oonduct.' The loyalty .of the Huronites triumphed over their econ omie griefs, and the Huron of 1837 demonstrated that -loyalty to the Brit- ish Empire which' has remained the fundamental ' political sentiment of Canadians since the American ,revolt- tion. 8Essay on. Galt; V.E.P. retie Canada Company Unmasked; V.E.P. I have not been able to identi- fy Burnell. roThe Constitution, September 27, 1837. �. niThe Canada Company Unmasked; V.E.P. 12The Constitution, September 27, 1837. iSTh•e Constitution', September 27, 1837. 14In the Days of the Canada Com- pany, D. 217. 15Thle O nsttitution, November 15, 29, 1837. 16Deposition of James Craig, in Up- per Canada Sundries, January 1, 1838. Pubeic Archives of Canada. 17Van Egmiondrs apology for' hip• presence in Mackenzie's camp at. Montgomery's, Ontario 'Historical So- ciety, Papers and Records XXXIIl, p- 101-02. ' 183. C. Dent, Phe Story of the Up- per Canadian Rebellion, Toronto, 1885, Vol: II, p:. 122-4, for Maontgoneery'e Tavern. 19R, 5, Jameson, note of December' ' 12, 1837, in Upper Canada Sundries: 20R. and K. M. Lizars, Humours or '37; p. 199 (Toronto, 1897). 21'Van Egmond: to commissioners of court of enquiry, city jail, "December 21, 1837, . in U. C. Sundries, Van Eg- mond packet. 22Humours of 1837, for the rehumta- tism, ,Huron. Expositor; August 9th 1940, for the burial. 25. and R, Lasers, "In the Days of the Canada Company," p. 217. - Pride goeth before destruction, and. a haughty spirit before a fall.—Bible. The -most dangerous: flattery is the inferiority of those who surround -us. —Madame Swstchine. All I have seen teaches me to truss the Creator for all I have not seen.— F:merson. i qeSNAPSFIOT GUILD PATTERNS WITH YOUR CAMERA - Light and shadow{ here created an interesting shadow pattern, which '• repeats the design of the lion ria an i ores such' pattern&they yield p g - t EVERYBODY likes an interesting pattern—and there is an end- less variety of patterns you can capture with your camera, if yeti watch for them. Wherever light shines through something• -=such as an ornamental window, or railing—there may be a pattern of fight and shadow. If shadows repeat the lines of some decorative' ironwork, or the outline of a statue or fountain, opportunity exists for a picture. Observe such shadows --• choose a• position to show both the shadow and the ob- ject that create§ it --and you'll usu- ally get an interesting shot. Whenever a number of similar objects are placed together, in a regis ar arrangement, you'll. flied ,patt�s. A large tray of apples or oranges in front of • the grocery ttiote-stacksof cratesbaskets at the marlret e -piles of timber lin a lnntiier 'yard—ell these may yield good pfttern effects that invite the attehtifei rot yoilr cafnera, . ' ,L. • Shoot a scene through an orna- mental fence or window grille—and you have another type of pattern • picture. The best type of grille is fairly open, so that it does not cut off too rnnch,of the scene. Expose for the distant 'parts of the view, and donot try to obtain •(detail in the grills --it is more effective if it appears as a dark outline: • In all these pattern pictures, use as small a lensopening as you can. so as to: get a deeper zone of sharp- , netts. If your tette will "stop down" to a very small opening—such as' f/22—choose a high speed film for pattern shots find' take advantage sof the small lend opening. wheinevelr'.ydiu'rr ontddors on a stee'l'y "day, watch for pattern pie- ttlire oppertunities. Look for pat- terns in foors, too. Natural pattern effects occur everywhere—and pie- tures ietures of them will lend variety to yottr-eaillsction. 300' d• , John van Guilder' 0