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hope then that his dorfall Was nearing the end. After that defeat Van
Egmond and his entire regiment committed mutiny when they learnedl
that from then they would have to fight against their own countrymen. •
Because of this Anthony was jailed in a French prison and would have
been executed except for the craftiness of his wife.
Madam Van Egmond, accompanied by her ' ter Martha, set off folr
t e coast where. her son Constant was attendi g a private school.
adam left the younger children with her si ter While she and
Constant went to the prison, taking with them a basket of food. Being
about the same, size, in the jail the couple changed clothes. Madam
Van Egmond took her husband's place while Anthony and his son
walked out, hand in hand, carryiaphe basket. When the warden of the
jail discovered he had a woman in the prison, she was immediately
released. The separation was not for long as they soon met at a
meeting place for erly arranged. Anthony subsequently found his
way into ,a Dutch d Belgian contingent on the ,side of the British
) which took him to duarter Bras and later to terloo where--he and
others were severely wounded but they w It was here Napoleon's
career ended and Europe was saved.
It was at Waterloo Van Egmon, met again his friend Sir John.
Colborne. Some time earlier John- Colborne had been appointed
military secretary to Prince William of Orange, the son of the then
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Miller at Wilbel. When the officer gave his permission the wedding,
believed to be a large one, soon took place. At this time two life-size
portraits were painted of Van Egmond and his bride but were lost
when crosbing to Canada from the United States and no other picture
of Anthony has ever been found. Their first son Constant was born in
the Rhineland of Germany on April 8, 1808.
' After Anthony's exRerience judging the robbers, it is not known how
many other campaigns with Napoleon's armies Anthony was engaged.
We do knew the Dutch contingent to which he. belonged did take part
in the great invasion of Russia with .the calamitons retreat from
Moscow in.1812. He was one, the authorities Say, of the few survivors.
In the retreat he .was wounded fourteen 'times, was carried from the
field and not one of his wounds was in the back. He'fought to the, end
face forward and was soon in service again.
One document still in existence is a marching order by the French
Army in Germany in 1813 to Captain Van Egmond'and his regiment. It
states that he was in charge of very urgent dispatches for the Minister
of War and to perform this mission he would be required -to journey
from Magdboury to Mainz, a trip which would take ten days to
complete. He would be accompanied by his wife, three children and a
soldier from his own regiment. Food and lodging was to be supplied at,
the places listed on the document 'as well as three carriage horses:
That same •year came Napoleon's defeat at Leipez and there was
King of Holland. Colonel Van Egnioncl served under the Prince of
Orange at this time and this thrpw these two much together and out of
this connection developed a close companionship. Strange as it may
seem, in,1837 theSe two met again under different circumstances. Sir
John Colborne Mad' been by that' time made the. commander of the
regular forces in the Upper Canada Rebellion and Van Egmond was
then the Commander-in-chief of the rebels. Even then, Van Egmond
felt no bitterness -against Sir John when he discovered that they were
on two different sides of a political issue,.
' That same year he wrote: "I warmly feel I owe 'it to -Sir John
Colborne here to state in vindication of his neglect or conduct... that I
have known him twenty odd years since, as a most gallant officer and
nobly disposed gentleinan, and always considered_hi.M.Awhlle our
governor) as anxiously wishing to advance the prosperity of this
province; but his. Maker had, it appears, given him but. littlevery
little indeed—of the disposition of St. Thomas' in Holy Writ—he was
too easy "a believer and suth generally Are truly honest men."
. TO PENNSYLVANIA AND UPPER CANADA
There is no detailed account of all Van Egmond's acitivites, ddring
the four years from his being wounded at Waterloo till his migration, to
America in 1819 nor from then till his arrival in Canada in 1827.
In ,1 819 he emigrated with his family to America and settled in
Indiana County in Pennsylvania. Here he prospered for eight years on
land covered with black stones which later proved to be Pennsylvania's
famous authracite coal. At this time store keeping was Van Egmond's
_subsidary occupation. His family which began with.a son in 1808 had
now totalled five sons and three daughters. The sons were Constant,
Edward, LeopOld, William and August and the daughters were Susan,
Louise and Mary. Later in Canada Susan married Thomas Govenlock
and Louise, Richard Twaites. Both men were farmers. Mary married
Andrew Helmer, who operated one of the inns on the Huron Road. In
the winter while he was out brfning the road and bringing in supplies
most of the work. at the inn was prie by his wife, Mary.
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In 1827 Van Egmond moved up into Canada. By this time the
"Pennsylvania Dutch", descendants of the Germans whom William
Penn had persuaded to come to America, had purchased and begun to
settle the Cour.ty of Waterloo in Canada. It was then Van Egmond had
his first contact with the Family Compact. FRESH
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FROZEN FAMILY COMPACT
6 CENTRE CUT
2 RIB PORTION
1, TENDERLOIN PORTION
FAMILY PACK
The men, wh , for many years, really controlled the province were
known as the 'Family Compact. It was a close alliance formed to get and
retain the offices of the government. Some had been members of the
Upper Canada Club which included a large number of ,Toronto political
elite citizens. Many were United Empire :Loyalists who prided_
Themselves on their loyalty to British institutions. Others were
emigrants from the Mother country who unwilling to make .a living by
hard work on bush farms managed through the influence of friends in
the old land to get offices in or under the government.
Very soon these Family Compact office holders came to believe that
they had .a right to manage the affairs of the provinCe, fill all the offices
and make profit out of the wild lands for themselves 'and their friends.
This became one of the great grievances of 'the settlers.
This Compact group not only gave large grants to their friends for
speculation but it-allowed a• company of .British capitalists called the
Canada Land Company to be organized and buy large tracts which it
held without making any improvements.. They hoped settlers would
come in,-work strenously to clear and improve their land and thus raise
the s land value of the hodlings of these others. The County of Huron
suffered more than most places from this bad policy; with the result
that for many years this fine, fertile district was left uncleared and
unsettled.
Land here had been set aside in each township as Clergy Reserves
and for the support of the common schools. Here again there was great
discontent as the English Church clergy claimed that they alone were
entitled to share in the Clergy Reserve grants.. This . left out other
denorninations and therefore only added fuel to the fire.
As has been •mentioned it was the Family CompaCt who for a,,tirrie
controlled the Legislative Assembly. However, this did, not lett too
long' for the abuses of power were so great that the common people,
-larger now in numbers, began tb elect their own members and chose
one of them as speaker Of the Assembly who would endeavor to remove
the evils under which they suffered. This majority was elected in 1824.
To be continued .
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