Sixty Years in Upper Canada, With Autobiographical Recollections
Sixty Years in Upper Canada, With Autobiographical Recollections
Charles M Clark
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He died in 1878, as good a soldier as ever bore British arms. We have given a fair picture of the Canadas from a military point of view after the Rebellion of 1837, and until the events of 1861 saw the United States disrupted and fighting, and threatening every day, by some unfore- seen blunder, to drag Great Britain into the controversy. Men were excited and alarmed, and a firm conviction prevailed that Canada must cease to be wholly reliant upon British lives, blood and armaments. A move "5 S...IXTY YEARS IN UPPER CANADA towards expansion of the active militia force must be made, and steps were slowly taken to increase the ntmiber of volunteer companies, of which a comparatively few had been organized. In the county of Wellington, where I resided, but one company of rifles existed, and a com- pany of garrison artillery was formed. As typical of the slow progress of the volunteer movement throughout the province, and of the lack of encouragement given to it in its early days, I may cite the action in the county of Wellington,* peopled largely by men of British birth or parentage.
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