QUEEN’S OWN LIGHT INFANTRY
Major, Henry Temple ; Lieut., Fred. Wyse ; Ensign, William Clarke.
Uniform : White blanket coat, red facings, blue breeches, red stripe, high cap.
ENGINEER RIFLE Corps,
Major, George H. Vincent Whitmore, ({Lieut. Roy the two companies and the Royal artificers.
1st Company : 1st Captain, Henry M. Blacklock ; 2nd Captain, Francis Wyatt ; 1st Lieut., Chs. Jos. Clarke ; 2nd Lieut., Fred. W. Blacklock.
2nd Company: 1st Captain, Frederick Hacker; 2nd Captain, John Phillips ; 1st Lieut., George Brown; 2nd Lieut., Edward J. Fletcher ; adjutant of the two companies and of the Royal artificers, William Scott.
Uniform : White blanket frock coat, red shoulder straps, collars and cufïs blue, cap blue with red band, breeches blue and red stripe.
al Engineers), commanding
KiING'S OWN VOLUNTEERS.
Captain, William Pentland ; Lieut., C, Pentland : Ensign, Jas. Farley.
RoY:1 QUEBEC VOLUNTEERS ARTILLERY,
1st Company : 1st Capiain, William Burns Lindsay ; 2nd Captain, George Desbarats (acting paymaster) ; 1st Lieut., W. Dudley Dupont and H. H. Wickstecd :; 2nd Lieut., McGregor Pink.
2nd Company : ist Captain, Edward H. Bowen ; ?nd Captain, John Black; 1st Lieut., Siméon Lelièvre ; Acting Quarter Master, John Panet : 2nd Lieut., Henry Lemesurier, jr.
3rd Company : 1st Captain, W. K. McCord ; 2nd Captain, Andrew Stuart ; 1st Lieut., Isaac R,. Eckart ; acting adjutant, A. J. Maxham; ?nd Lieut., E, J, G.
Hooper ; Paymaster, Captain D, Dupont ; Quarter Master, Jas. Motz : Surgeon, Jas, A. Sewell, M. D.
les Bureaucrates, mais encore un troisième parti, Composé d’Anglais, et influent sans doute, mais non assez fort pour tenir tête aux bureaucrates de même origine qui constituaient le Family Compact.
Ce tiers parti s'irritait, simpatientait des abus sur lesquels subsistait le Family Compact.
On me permettra de citer l'extrait suivant d’une lettre envoyée de Québec à Londres, en 1835, par Frederick Ellioit, fils de lord Minto, l'habile secrétaire, à Québec, de la commission nommée par la métropole pour s'enquérir des griefs de la colonie. Sir George Gipps et sir Geo, Grey faisaient partie de cette commission : !
‘My dear Taylor, People have been accustomed in England to hear of only two parties in Canada, the English and the French, but there are in fact three parties, the official, the English and the French, besides some French classes altogether distinct from the party which goes by that name. The official or, as the French term it, Bureaucratic party, is composed of a few old men holding the highest offices. They seem to be fond of privilege, jealous of interference and ready to hold office at any enquiry with the popular allegations, Most of them are dull and those who are the reverse are said to be interested. Itis of very little consequence what they are. What ever influence they may have formerly exercised through the instrumentality of weak &overnors, they are now
destitute of any of the real elements of power, having neither connections PRÉ RRSRSS ER
RoYAL QuEeBEc VOLUNTEERS.
Colonel, James Baird (66th Regiment), Commanding Major, Wiliiam A. Hale.
1st Company : Captain, A. Campbell ; Lieut., Chas. C. Sheppard.
2nd Company : Captain, J. Dyde; Lieut,, W. A. Cuppage : Ensign, Antoine Vanfelson.
3rd Company : Captain, W. Power ; Lieutenant, P, B. Bradley ; Ensign, Charles Alleyn,
4ch Company : Captain, J. G. Irvine; Lieut., E. S. Montizambert : Ensign, Colin Bruce,
5th Company : Captain, T. W. Lloyd ; Lieut., Harry Ball; Ensign, Thos. A. Cary.
6th or Highland Company (Megantic) : Captain, Arch. McKillop ; Lieut. P, MckKillop ; Ensign, J, G. Clapham.
Uniform : Rob Roy, Tartan Tre ws, Scotch bonnet, dark frock coat.
Tth Company : Captain, J. P. O’Meara ; Lieut., J. H. Kirby ; Ensign, Ed, G. Cannon.
8th Company (Queen's Pets) : Captain, William Rayside : Lieut., À, C. Bucanan ; Ensign, Walter Douglas ; Paymaster, William Kemble ; adjutant, Thomas Hamilton.
Uniform of Companies Nos. 1, 2, 8, 4, 5 and 7: blue loose coat, wlth red collar, blue breeches, high fur cap with long ears. The 8th Company or Queen's Pets wore long blue pea-jackets, blue breeches, a round fur cap with long ears, and red woollen cravat ; their arms were, horse pistols, broad cutlasses and a carronade,
! Cette lettre est mentionnée dans les termes suivants dans les Gréville Memoirs: ‘“Ihave just seen an excellent letter from Frederick Elliott to Taylor, with a description of parties and politics in Lower Canada, which has been shown to the ministers, who think it the ablest exposé on these heads, that has been transmitted to them. Lord Howich tells us he hopes this clever letter would be shown to Lord Glenelg, to Lord Melbourne and to the King.”
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at home (England) nor weight in the province, If there be a body in the world, which may, without fear, be handled according to its merits, that is the high official party of Canada. In the province itself it is very difficult to say by which great divisions of the people il is detested the most. Very different from this public corps is the real “ English party”.
“It is composed of almost all the merchants, with an admixture of considerable land holders, and of some of the Younger and more intelligent civil officers. It possesses much wealth and still more credit, and in addition to these it has all that materiel confidence and that precision and unity of purpose, which, to do our Countrymen justice, they know better than any other people how to confer on political associations, This imposing body, moreover, has great advantages at the present moment in the moderation of tone which it can assume in contrast to the violence of its adversaries, thus gaining the good will, if not the overt support of the numerous portion of society which prefers security and a tranquil life to every thing else. Yet I do not like the English party, It is fully as ambitious of dominion as the French party, and in my opinion, prepared to seek it by more unscrupulous means. Whenever cither of the two at the present moment speaks of separation, I lovk upon it as a mere bombast or artifice to bend the couse of the government, but, depend upon it that if ever these heats in Lower Canada should go 80 far as to hazard the connection with the mother-country, the English will be the foremost to cut the tic.
“They, of the two parties, are by far the best disposed to sympathize with republican institutions.”
Mais silence sur ces lamentables scènes d'un passé dont la plage s'éloigne de nous de jour en jour.
Silence, après ces féroces cris de guerre, cette lutte fratricide qui troubla l’existence, si longtemps paisible, de nos pères.
En 1837, ils luttaient, conspiraient, versaient leur sang pour conquérir la liberté, l'égalité civile et religieuse, le contrôle des deniers du peuple et du domaine public, la responsabilité des employés civils au peuple, les immunités de l’habeas Corpus,ice paladium du sujet britannique, l'abolition de l'emprisonnement des débiteurs, excepté en cas de fraude, le procès par jury, la liberté de la presse, l'indépendance des juges, etc.
Est-ce que nous, leurs descendants, nous ne Jjouissons pas pleinement de toutes ces bienfaisantes réformes conquises au prix de bien du sang ?
Si, de nouveau, un personnage officiel s'oubliait — ce qui est peu probable — au point de nous qualifier de “race inférieure 7, est-ce que le Canada entier ne se levrait pas Comme un seul homme pour lui répondre : “ Le modérateur constitutionnel des destinées de la Grande-Bretagne, en Amérique, c’est un Canadien-français, et le chef suprême de la vieille province de Québec, notre chère Patrie, c’est encore un Canadien-français ” !
Sec, I, 1898, 9,
