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TO DimiOIT, MADX IS THB MOKTICS OF PRRBUARY A3»B MABCB, *.D. Vrn, BT IIW BXCBIiLRtrcT LUrr. -OOT. liNCOB WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTKS Br HENRV SCADDING, D.D. At'THOB Of "TOBOBTO OP OLD." "THB POim DECADia OP TOBR. CPPBR CABABA." (Of THB BBW-OBSTlBjaAL HBMOBIAl. TOIiinuB OP TOWim),) WX. TORONTO : THB COrp, CIARK COMPANY, tlMITElJ, PRINTERS. 1889. H'4' ■ 4'^ ^'tivV^^ J O U R N A L WRITTKX »T EDWARD BAKER LITTLEHALES (MA.IOR or lIRiaADK, KTC.) OF AS KXPLOKXTdRV TOIR IMRTLY IS WLKKfllK Hll (IIIKKI.Y OS F(MT, FROM NAVY HAM., SnOARA, TO HKTROrr, MAKK I.V TliK MnVTlrS OF KKRHfARV AN1> MAKlH, A. II. 17'J.l, HY HIM K.XCKI.LF.SI.Y I,IF.rT.-OOV. HIMC'OK Wmi INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BT HENRY S C A D D I N G , D . D . Al TMOR OF "TOHoXTO OF OLD," " TIIF FOIB llKCADK.S OF Yollh, r IM'F.R ( VXADA,'' (IS TIIK MKMI-C'KSTKSNIAL MKMOhlAL VllM MK OF TOUOXTO.) F.TC. #" TORONTO : THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, I,IM1TEI>, IRINIKK.'- 1889. 'iat»$ INTRODUCTION. The author of the Journal, het-e presented to the student of early Caniidiiin History, wus Major E. B. hittlelialcs, Secretary to liieut.- (tov. Siniooo, the founder and organizer of tlie Province of I'^pper Canada, now tlie Province of ( )ntario. Major Jiittleh ics was afterwards Sii' 1*1 B. liitth'lialos, for some time Secretary at War foi- Ii-ehmd, during the Lord-Lieutenan«y ot tlie Marquis of Cornwallis. In August, 1805, he was married at Lofius Hill, near D\il»lin, to Lady Elizabeth Fitz;:enild daughter of the l>ukt) of Ijtnnster. In 17*J'2, he is sjyoken of in the Simcoe [lajiers at Ottawa as (.'apt. Littleliales, l»ut in the following year AS " E. B. Littlehales, Major of Brigade," as appears by his siguature attached to a (General Older, issued at Voik, Upper Canada, as follows : "(Jeseral OKfiER.- Yi»rk, U. 0,, 2(5111 August, 1793. — His Excellency the Lieiitt'nant-3), a Royal Salute of twenty-one guns is to be tired, to be answered by the shipping in the Harbour, in respect to His IJoyal iiij,di- ness and in commemoration of the naming this Marboiii from ids Knglii-h title, York.— K. 15. Lrn'i.EH.Ai,E.s Mnjor af Jirlijuil'." In his " Travels in N. America " (vol. I., p. 271), the French Duke de Liancouit sfieaks in high terms of Major Littlehales, with whom he was brought into pleasant relations at Navy Hall, Niagaia, in 1701. " Before T close the article of Niagara T must make partiodar mention of the civility shewn us by Major Littlehales, adjutant and first secretary to the Governor, a well-bred, mild ami amiable man, who has the charge of the w^hole correspondence of Governmisnt, and acquitH liimKolf with pectiliiir ability aiul application. Major liitjle- hrtlos appearwl to posHess tho conHdence of the country. This is not unfrequently the case with men in phice and power ; but his worth, politeness, prudence and judgment give tills officer peculiar claims to the confidence and resjiect which he universally enjoys." Among the manu.script documents of Surveyor (jreneral D. W. Smith, lately secured for the Public Library of Toronto, there may be seen many 'ettei-s in the hand-writing of Major Littleliales. The following is of considerable interest, as relating to an inti'iided grant of Iund in IFpper Canada for the accommodation of French Royalist refugees. YfiKK, 27th October, 1793. — Tlie uiulerinenticiiUMl extract of a letter from His Kxcellency Liout.-Oovernor .Siincoo to .Messni. Desjardius ami f^a ("oriif French Missionaries, I have the honour to transmit to you agreeably to His Excellency's instructions, anil I am, sir, your most obedient iuid very humble servant, E. B. LrnbEUAi.Ks. D. W. Smith, Escj., Acting Surveyor-General. — "The Executive Council of this country have agreed with me to reserve for the French emigrants a town- ship in the vicinity of B«rlington Bay ; this station [ selected, us considerint; those townships united the most tlesirable requisites for a general settlcnieut of any part of the Province, which was personally known to mo, for such French gentlemen as might be likely to onugrate in a body." It nuiy be added that the site of this propo.sod settlement of French Koyalist Refugees was ultimately on the Oak Ridges, north of York, and not on Burlington Bay. The following letter, addressed to the Surveyor Goneral touching us it does on the value of a hundred-acre lot at Ymk in 1801, is of interest. DiBLiN Castle, .Tune 26, 1801.— Your letter of the 2,3rd of bmuary, 1801^ has but just reach<. Sir K B. Litth il.iiea dm\ u Lieutenant-Colonel in tlio army, March 4, 1825. Tho journiil beforo us was tirst printed in the colunin.s of the Canwlinn Lit nwij il/«7fi-. /;<(;, a sliort liv«Ml j)eriodical published at York in 18:};J. l.y Mr. John Kent. The document was supplied to tho editor by tlie present writer, having been found by him amonij his father's papers, and if not the original was a contemporary copy. . , This chance |»ublication was probably tlie happy means of rescuing tlio docuniont fron\ total oblivion. A danger arising of its being ;igain lost sight of from the scarcity of the above named periodical* it has been thought advisable to ro-issue it in independent form. %t^ It is desii-ed also hereby to pi'omoto tlie project of erecting a statue to the memory of Lieut. -CJovernor 8imcoe , in frnnt of the new ParliauKMit Ibilldings at Toronto, as suggested in an address de- livered by the writer at Brantford. in June, 1888, tho substance of which will bo found in an A])pendix. JOURNAL. 1793. Feb. 4th.— On Monday His Excellency Liouttnant-Oovt'i- iidi- Siiiiooe, aco()nii>iini«>d by C'Hptain Fitzj^finld, Lientf^nant Hniitli <>t' tlu' r)tli He'.i8es. ')tli. — Upon arriving at the Ten mile Cnsek, an Kx|)re.ss arrived from Kingston, brought by two Mississaga Indians. This oinum- stance detained the (Governor till the next day,- Gtli. — When, with some ditlifulty, we reaehed Nelies' at the Grand River (or Ouse) being obliged to cross tli<> mountain, whicli bore the sad relics of ilevastation, occasioned by a hurricane th^ preceding Autumn. 7tli --About twolve o'clock wo arrived at Captain Hmnt's at tlie ^fuhawk Indian Village — going along the ice on the Grand lliver villi great rripidity, for a consi(U'rable way. The country between this phico and Niagara, a distance computed al)out seventy miles, previous to ascending the monntiiin (considered as a branch of the Alh'glmny), is in a tolerable state of improvement, — the mountain is well timbered, and richly dressed with Pine, Oak, Be»^ch, Maple, etc. The torrents of rain issuing frou) its summit, and the several creeks which run into Jjake Ontario, break the ground, making deep ravines, and thereby much diversify the s«ene. Tlie mountain runs pai;dlel with linke Ontario. On our arrival at the Mohawk tillage the Indians hoisted their Hags and trophies of war, and tireen an irregular icnce of stakes maon which the Tiulians jjfiisc m nmst tn'mendous shout, -all set to work with thcii' tomahawks ami axi-s, and in ten or llftciMi ndnnU-s tin' tree was out down Tl le way of ♦'ntrajijiiiij; tl le animal was niriouH. •luilginj; correctly of the spaoe tho tree would occupy in falling', they surrounded it, and closed in so sudilenly that the Racoon could not escape, and was killed, Thr Indian- at first anuised theinselvcs with allowinfi; a Newfoundland do;; to attack it. l»ut it defemh'il itself so well that. I think, ii. would have escaped from the (Kig, l)Ut for the interposition of the .Indians. Several more Racoons were traced in the snow, ami two of them taken by the .same mode. The three when roasted made us an excellent supper. Some parts were rancid, hut in general the tlesh was evceedingly tender and good. 14th. —This day brough' us within a f(!W miles of the l.)elaware Indian Village, where we encampeif The Ijidians shot some lilack and other Mpiirrels. 1 observed many trees bla/ed, and various ugures of Judians (returning frf)m l^attle with scalps), ami animals drawn upon them, descriptive of the initi(.ns, tribes, and numiter that had passed. Many of them were well drawn. esjK'cially a liisou. This day we walked ov(>r very uneven groumi. and passed two l/ikes (if alK)\it four mill's in circumference, lietween wliich were many tine Larch tiees. An Indian, wlio carried a h(>avier pick than the rest, was behind, and on over-takinjr us. said that a whitlante(L with Tndi tn Coin, .\fter walking twelve or fourteen miles part of the way through plains of white Oak and zV.^h, and everal Chippawa Indians upo'.iJ^eir hunting j)arties, and in campments, we ariivtid at a ('MM%\[ Trader's ; and, a little in proceeding down the River the liuiians discmt'icl a spring ]y nature, which upon i?xan)ina|j» " juoved to be a kind of petroleftii. We passed aiuither wigwam of Chippawas. making maple -Jigar, the mildness ot tin" Wiiuei having compelled them in a great UK'asure to abandon their .mnual hunting. We socjii arrived at an old hut, wheie we passed the night. 17th.- -We pas.sed ine Moravian Village this day. This infantine this di passim their bey OIK of an 10 sottl( iiient is under tlio siipprintondonrn of four ^Missionaries, Messrs. Zeislieii^er. Sensctiiitu, iMlwiirds ;iiid N'oiin^ , iiud jirincipally inlialt- itod l>y Delaware ludiaus, who seoin to lie uiiiler tlie control, and, in many |iarticulars, under tlie coniniand of these |)t'rsons. They are in a |)r();,n-es,'sive state of civilization, hein<^ instructed in diflerent })ranche8 of Agriculture, and havini,' already corn fields. At this place overy respect was paid to the (Jovornor, and we procur'cd a seasonable r(;freshniciit of eggs, milk and butter.- Pursuing our journey eight or nin(r miles, we stopped for the night at the extiemity of a new load, cut by tlio Indians, and close to a Creek. Mr. (iiiiy missec miles. 18th. — ('i()s.sing the Thames, and leaving behind us a new log house, belonging to a sailor, named Carpeiittir, we passed a thick, swampy wood of black walnut, where His Kxcelleiicy'.s servant was lost for thre<' or foui" hours. We then came to a bend of the La Tranche ('I'hames) and wei-i; agreeably sur|>rised to meet twelve or fourteen cirioles coming to meet, and conduct the (Tovernor, who, with hi.s suite got into them, and at about four o'clock arrived at Dolsen's, having pieviously reconnoitred a fork ui' the Hiver, and exa.nuned a mill of a curiou.s construction erc'cting upon it. The settlement where Dols(Mi resides is very jtromising. the laud is well adapted for farmer.s, and there are soiiu^ res.pectable iuhabitauts on both sides of the Kiver ; l)chind it to the South is a range of spa<;ioiis meadows --Klk are con- tinually seen upon them —and the pools and ponds are full of cray fish. From Dolsen's we went to the mouth of tlu? Thames in cariolcs, about twelve mihfs, and .saw the remains of a considerable town of the (.'hippawas, where, it is reported, a e of th<5 neighbourhood who attended. We stayed at Dolsen's tlu^ whole day. •-'"ith. -It froze extremely hard; by which we were enabled to go on the ice in eai-ioles up the Thames to th(> high l»ank, where we first m(it the carioles when on our way to Detroit;. ( 'olonei M'Kpe, Mr. Baby, and .several of the jjrineipal itdialiitants, aecompanitul tlie Governor thus fur ;— but here wi; sepjirated : 'Uid each taking his jiack or knapsack, on his back, we walked that night to the Moravian village. 'JGth. — We were dfitamed at the ^Moravian village till noon, to hea)- divine service performed by two ol" the nn'nisters — one speaking extempore from the Bible — the other expressing himself in the Liilian language. — -To-day we went a little l)eyond one of our former wigw.inis. crossing some runs of water, and ravines, and going tluough lands whieh abounded with iiasswood. hickory and ash. '27th — We continued our journey, and reached the Delawai-e Village. Some Chiefs, returning tVnm their hunting, were assembled to congratulate the Governor on his return, and brought presents of veniscMi, etc. In the evening they danecul — a ceremony they never dispense with when any of tlie King's oflicers of rank visit their villages. 'JSth. -At »i.\ W(f stojiped at an (^Id Mississaga hut,, upon the i ' 13 sautli side of tin; 'riianins. .Vftnr t,i!viir^ s nm I'tifi'o.slimitiil, of s.ilt pork Jiiid vi'iiisuii, wiill (^)ok(!:l Ity Lii'iitoii.iut Smitli, wlio ,sii[)ei'in- toiidofl tiiat department. \vi^ as usual, .sa^i'^ . saw tracks of otter--, diMir, wolves, and bears, and otlier aniniils, niiny of wliioli being ipiiti' frcsli. induced the Mohawks to pursue them, but without success. We walke I four- teen or fifteen miles, and twice crossed the river, and a few creeks, upon the ice; once we came close to a (Jhippawa hunting- camp, o[)posite to a fine terrace, on the banks of which we (Mieamped, near a bay. Tiie Governor, and most of the [)ii'ty. wore moccasins, having no snow-shoes ; this he had befon? found nece.s.sary in tlie course of the journey. 2nd. — We struck the Thames at one end of a low flat island enveloped with .slirulw and trees; the rapier on the heights, well calculatc'd for the erection of pul>lic buildings, —a climate not inferior to any pat t of C'anaila. To these mitural advantages a\i ol)iect of great consideration is to l)c adh^d, that the enormous (expenses of tlie Indian Department would be greatly diminished, if not abolished; the Indians would, in .ill proliability, be induced to l)ecome the carriers of their own peltries, ami they would fiiida ready, contigiuius, commodious, and eipiitable mait, honorably adv.-intageous to (iovei'ii- inent, and the community in general, without their becoining a jirey to the monopolizing and unprincipled trader. v Tin; young Indians, who had cha.sed a herd of de(>r in company with Lieutenant (livens, rottirned tin successful, but lu-ought with them a l.'irge purcupiiKv; which was xcrv seasonable, as our provisions were 13 nearly exjKiiult'd. This auiiitiil atVordcil u.s ji very ;,'y onc^, autl eaiet'idly applied a root or decoction, which speedily healed the wound. Various tigures were delineated on trees at the forks of tiie lliver Thames, done willi charcoal and vermilion ; the most remarkable were the imitations of men with deer'>j heads. We saw a fine eagle on the wing, and two oi- thi-ee large liirds, perhai>s vultuius. 3rd — VV^e were glad to leave our wigwam early this morning, it iiaving raiiunl incessantly the whole night; l)esides, the hendo..k branches on whi^ h we slept were wet before they were gathered for our use. — We first a.scended the height at least one hundred .ind twenty feet into a continuation of the jiinery already nu'utioned ; (juitting that, we came to a beautiful plain with detached clumps 'of white t)ak, and open woods; then crossing a creek running into the south branch of the Thames, we entered a thick swam[)y wood, where e were at a loss to discover any track ; l>ut in a few mi- nu*^ } were released from this dilemniii l)y the Indians, m ho n iig a cast, .soon desci'ied our old path to Detioit. Dffscending a hill, and crossing a l>rook, we camo at noon to the encampment wo left on the 14th of February, and were agreeably surprised by meet- ing Caittaiu Brant and a numerous retinue ; among them were four of the Indians we had despatched to him when we first altered our coui'.se for the forks of the River Thames. Two of the party had ju.st killed a l)uck and a doe ; ami one of the Indians- -wishing to preserve the meat from the wolves in the night, or to .show his activity, — climbed up a small tree of iron-wood, which. Vjeimr elastic, bent with him till it nearly reached the ground : then hanging the meat upon t<,e tree, it sprung back into its original position. The meat was secure till the morning, when he cut down the tree. 4tli. During this day's maicli it rained without intermission, and last night it thundered auil lightened dreadfully ; the In-ooks and rivulets were swollen considerably, and we were oblige(l to cross them on small trunks of trees or logs. In the afternoon we pa.ssed the hut where we shspt on the 12th of February. I noticed very fine iKech ti'ees. 5th. — Met Mr. (Jlarke and the winter expre.ss returning from Nia- gara, and Mr. Jones, the Deputy Surveyor. We again crossed one of the branches of the S. E. fork of th(* Tham(!.s, and halted in a t.'\ press or (*edar grove, where we were mmdi amused by s'eing Brant and the liulians chase a lyn.K with their dogs ami lifle guns, but they did not catch it. Several porcupines were ,s(H.'.n. u Otii Tl. (till. riiis iiionimg wv iiriived iit tin; Moliawk Villai^-;, tlif Imliitiis liavint,' l)roii;,'lit horses for the (iovcruor and lii« suite, to the end of th(! plains, iieiir the Salt Lick Creek. — It liad frozen exceedinj^ly hard hiKt niglit, and we crossed the Grand River at a ditferent place fioni that we crossi'd hefore, and hy a nearer route. Iji the evening all tiie Jiidians a.s.seni'>h'd and danced their customary dances, the Wai-, (,'aluniet, Bnfialo, Feather dance.s, etc.— Most of Hi?. Excellency's suit(i \n'iu<0. Feb. 18. — Mr. Dolsen was a substantial inhabitant of the locality where the town of Chatham was soon afterwards laid out. Feb. 25. — Mr. Baby, afterwards the Hon. James Baby, who died at York, Upper Canada, in 18.'53. " McKee." This was the Mr. Alexander McKee w!io excerted himself .so persistently to secure the adherence of the Indian tribes to the cause of the Crown of England in the American Revolutionary War. March 5.— -Mr. Jonos Deputy-Surveyor : /. e. , the distinguished Augustus Jones who made the original surveys of a large portion of Ui)per Canada, and laid out the town plot of York for Governor Simcoe. His excellent aud caref\dly written note books are happily pre- served in the Crown Lands Department at Toronto. March 7th. — \Vil8on's Mills— the site of tlie present Anca.ster, these were grist and saw mills owned by Mr. .James Wilson, ['. E. Loyalist Refugee from Pennsylvania. March 8th.— " Beasley's," i. c, the residence of Mr., afterwards Colonel, Bejisley. March t>th.—" Green's " I.e., the residence of Mr. Green, an influential eai'ly settler. Forty Mile Creek is the mordern Grimsby. / APPENDIX. ACCOUNT OF PIONKKIJS VISIT TO BUANTFOHD, ONTAHIO, IN JUNK, 1S8S. (Condcusi'd from Brcmtfonl Expositor, ofjint'' i.^, ISSS.) TIio society ot |ii(»iieoi's from Toronto mul tlio ('ounty of Peel, oociijiyiug a special train consisting,' of fifteen cars, nrrivetl at Hrant- ford, at 1.30 p.m., on Wednesday. Upon their arrival, the party were received liy the ^layor. City Clerk Woodyatt, llevd. Canon [Mackenzie, Aid. Brosvii, Aid. nowll)y and olliers. Tlu; Mayor \V(tlcomed them with an a[ipropriatf^ address. A deputation of some fifty of the chiefs, and the warriors of the Six Xatiofis were at the station accompanied l>y Superintendent (Jilkison, Inspector Uingnian, an to delay in t)n'ir arrival and tJie .some- what cireuitous i-oute by which they came. It is to be regretted that tlioy struck the town the same day as tlie great International Hnnntin's demonsti-ation, otliet-wise there would have been better oj). ])ortiiMity of viewing the city, and of learning niort? of historical and gen<'ral interest to the society. TItK MAYOK's Af)l)RKSS OF WEM'OMK. Rev. IF. Scaddiiif/, J)./)., ting and treasuring objects of interest and the early reminiscences of this locality. 19 We trust tliiit your visit licrp to-day will not only 1>«' an iii,'r<'(Mhle ! I •20 fill for [\i" fri(!iully whIl-oiik' fi iii;,'iii<; together in iioar coiiiiiuinit)ii, tho fust st'ttloi-H of tlio ol«l oriyiiuil County of York iind their dosccntlants, lunl i)orp('tuiitin<^ amoui,' tlionj a hrotlierly .sentiment. Also, we exist , as yon state, for tlic pinpo.sR of reoovcriiiy;, so far as is practicalile, and prcsorvini; minute pa titJidars, of i^eniiral interest conn-rnin^' tlie tiist t'ormatitin of tli<' cities, towns, villages', liamlets and iiomesteads that now everywlieri' tioiirisli within the old county's limits. And we do not see any reason wliv, as you suggest, a similar soeiety with similar objects in view .should not he formed Ikm-c for the County of IJrant, just as, with e>ceellent results, one, as you know, has of late l)een formed at Hrampton for the County of Peel, .some of who.se men^hers are pre.sent here today. The limits of th(? County of York. 1 have to romiml yon, ouet- e.\- teudi'il much farther west than they d.) at present. In an ollieial Proclamation issued in the year 17'.I2, we l)«ve it set forth, euriously, if not ([uite intelligihly, th.at the West liiding of the County of York Iiounded on the; east hy th(! west;ornmost line of a tract of laml holong- ing to the ^lississaga Indians, running north 4") degiees west of the l^iver La Tranche or Thames. On the south, by Burlington Bay and the Carrying Place leading through the .^[ohawk villau'c wJKjre it intersects the River La Tranche oi- Thames, and tiienc(( up tliat river to the north westernmost bound.iry of a tract of land biOonging to the Missi.ssaga Indians.. (8ee D. \V. Smith's first Gazetteer of ITpper Canada, 17!*7.) Thus we see that the spot on which we stand isj)ro- bably not outside the legitimate jurisdiction of our society. Mmy of us. a(!Coi(Ungly, have been in the haV)it of regarding Ijrantford and its neighborhood with particul.ir interest, alludt.'d to as it .so often is in the early annals of Western Canad i, especially in connection with the transfer .some hundriiil years ago and more, as you remark, ti'om the Sta,te of New Yoi'k to these parts, of the bulk of the Mohawk Nation and many individuals belonging to the other Six Nationis of the Iroquois Indians. Moreovpi', we have a minute record of the first exploration of these parts made in 179.'{ by Lientenant-Ciovernor Sinu-oe in person. The joni'nal of JNIajor Littlehales, who accompanied the Governor diu-ing that exploration, .should be well known here. Brantford, indeed, is 31 tlH'se The I'cil. is not mentioned in it, for there wn8 thnn no nmntfurd ; l»ut the Moliiiwk village L'loHe by in ivjieateilly 8|)oken of and its ancient and now njo8t UUciH-sting oliui'oli. Hrant Ih aim) n mnd a;;)iin and ai^ain. On the lOtli of I'Vlnnaiy, 17!>.'5, for exani])!*', Major liittlehaliiH writes: — " We did not (juit the Mohawk village till noon, wlam w(* m't out with Captain Mrnnt ancl alunit twelve Indians." Thus escorted they arrived after five days niandi at the Delaware village on the Thames, and wo have the entry : " We breakfasted at the Delaware village, liavi)ig walked on the ice of the l^a Tranche or Thames five or six' miles. We were cordially rei;eived iiy the chiefs of tliat nation ami regaled with eggs anil venison, ''uptain Hrant being obliged to return to a Council of the Six Nations, we stayed the whole day." And then in tli8 Wt; were released from the dilemma by the Indians, who, making a cast, .soon discovered o\n' old p:ith to Detroit. Descending a hill and crossing a biook we c.ime at noon to the encampment we left on the 14th of Kebruary, and were agreeably surpriseil by me<'ting Captain Urant and a numerous retinue: among them were four of the Indians w(! had despatched to him when we first altered our course for the forks of the River Thames.'' TluMi on the 5th of M,arch we meet with Brant's name again " r)th. — nu't Mr. Clarke and the wintei- express returning from Xiai.'ara. and Mr. Jones, 1st Deputy Surveyor. We then crossed one of the liranclies of the southern fork of the Thames, and halted in a cypress or eedar ^iiove, wheie we were mm li amused l>v .seeinjj Biant and the rndiiins chase a lynx with their dog.s' and rille guns, but they did not catch it. Several jiorcupincs wen? seen. On the morrow they were again in the neighborhood of the spot where we are now standing. '• Gth. — This morning we arrived at the ^lohawk \illMge, the Indians having brought horses for the Governoi' and his suite to tlie end of the plains near Salt Lick Creek." On the 7lli they wei(? at Wilson's .Mills "on the mountain." On the 8th they were at Beasleys at Burlington Baj'. On the 9th they were at (Jreen's at the Forty Mile Creek. On the 10th the Oovernor reaches his home at Navy Hall, Niagara on-the Lake, as the itlace is conveniently stvled at the present day. •}o f.i. I need not say it is just such items as these that render okl rceoivls and early docunionts very pleasant reading to the members of a society like oui-s, and the incidents thus narrated make classic ground of the places where they occurred. Bui in addition to such attractions there is something else to draw us to Bratitford at the ])resent day. We all desire, at all events once in our lives, to see the magnihcent monument erected hert; in lionor of Brant. We rejoice that the pul)lic spirit of ("anadians, aided ]>y the nmnificeiicc of Parliainent, has jtrocured for your city sjj noble a jwsses.'-ion. It is ainong the things that go to make your young men and your young wuukmi and all your citizens proud of their liome and lovers of their native soil. We rejoice also on account of the elfect wliicii such a nionument must have on the minds of our aboriginal fellow countrvnien. Alyon- ipiiu and Iroquois must alike bo pleased to see the desire to do honor to their race in thus dignifying the memory of a givjut i-epreaentative red man. It is good b!)th f(jr white man and red man that Tliav('ndanoi,'ea'.s name and fame should be continued fresli and gi-een in our midst. Brant did much, as (;very one can now see, for the elevation and si)iritiud advancement of his people according to tlic light and decree of grace given him. Warrior .and philanthropist, living and acting in an age and amidst surrounale-faces, his co)item)ioranes, both here and in the old country, show the innate capabilities of the Indian race, '['lie famous British chief Caractacus, of whom we usctl to rea.\[tress tlie hope, the desire, the prayer to Almighty (lod, that our red bretliren of this region, and of all other regions of the vast Dominion of Canada, will continue to go forward, hand in hand with us, iu the march of progress and civilization. We camo round to-day l»y a circuitoiis route through Brampton, Gueiph and Gait, through a magnificent country vying now with the old countiy itself in good iiusbandry and populou.snes.s. Seen in all the glory of June, a panorama luu-olled itself on the light hand and on the left as we swept along, titted to rejoice the hearts of men like our.solves, wlio, .so many of us, remember what Canada was when iu the rough. But after all, I for one. should perhaps have preferred for the sake of the Association, coming up from Toionto in' a route more nearly coinciding with that which Governor Simeoe, Chief Brant, Deputy Siu'veyor Jones and the rest used to travel, along by Ihmdas and the old Portage trail, from the head of Lake Ontario to the valley of the Grand Jliver. lUit this could not be done without a change of railway carriages, which it was desiral>le to avoid in an excui'siou. However, none the le.s.s, I am sure, shall we enjoy our insppctiou of Bi'antford on this occasion. 1 thank you again, in tiic umin'. of our society, for your most kind reception, and congratulate you jtgain and your prosperous city, on the possession in yo\ir midst, of such a noble group of sculpture. 1 hope, as years roll on, many more artistic and architectural memorial objects will be .seen scattered o\<'r the face of our country, marking its historic spots and counuemorating its his- toric characters. In particular T coTitideutly hope that Toronto will ere long be able to boast of a monumental group ecpialling, if not surpas.sing, yours here in i'niutford. it will stand, 1 trust, in front of the new Parliament Buildings now being erected there, and it will be iu honor of Lieutenant-Governor, John Graves Simeoe, first founder and organizer of this Piovince. Lt foui- .shoi't yeais inca'c, a centuiy will have elaj)sed since the couiuieiici-iuent of his short but eNcntf'ul administration. iMery day's general experience goes to prove that the jiolicy and nu^asures of Gov<'inor Simeoe were tho.se of a wi.se, far-sighted stat<'s. man ; ami I think that the really grateful sentiment of the country at large will fully sustiin the action of the Legislature when they vote him a statue at public expense.