Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Official Souvenir Programme: Queen's Own Rifles Semi-Centennial Reunion, Toronto, June 18th to 25th, 1910
Now we have all the incidents of her dramatic, but painful, jo how she is beset by Indians, and all the rest of it, just as real as life, and en we have the battle of Land 's Lane, the soldiers' fight, everythingb just as it hap pened, General Sir G. Rummond in his scarlet coatee and ri hfiy waving sword, and a fight for the standard - a very sturdy fight, _ the tableau passes all too soon, for one is so deeply and intensely interested in it all. Now what is this, the soldiers are all e and yes, that's Montgomery's tavern. We have jumped from 1815 to l 7. The tavern is most realistic, all lighted up inside, rebel reformers moving about in their high-necked body-coats and stocks, and tall hats, and tightly strapped trousers, some of them cloaked and booted, and here a quaint body of militia - of course you'll all laugh over the Awkward squad-i laughed until my eyes ran' water.
There is William Lyon Mackenzie-that intense reformer, moods and aspirations. Yes, Lount, Mathews, Van Egmond, the soldier; Ral h, Baldwin, Gibson, Shepherd, Carmichael, the carpenter who carried the 021g of truce; Anderson whom Powell shot Colonel Moodie, had strong man, also killed - all pass in the pageant, living embodiments of dead men, replete with life and action. Here come Colonels Fitzgibbon, Allan, mcnah, Chisholm, Jarvis, . Mclean, Bond-head, the Hamilton Militia, the Toronto Volunteers, Major Cafirae and the Artillery, the Sherifi's men, a fight, and they have it; Montgomery's tavern reduced to ruins. Episode is Epoch II. Not a moment last. Canadian history in a panorama. We go to Epoch III.
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