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-
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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
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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.
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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'
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