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A '.i)i ■it If- f I^W ^mm HiSTOHlGflL SOCIETY. TS objects are the encourafjement of the study ot Canadian His. tory and Literature, the collection and preservation ot Cana.l- dian historical relics, the buildinv^f up of CanaJiin lovalty and ,)a!- rlotism and the preservation of all historical landmarks in this vicinity. The annual fee is fifty cents. The Society was fonnea in December 1895 and since May 1896 about thirteen hundred articles have been j^athered in the Historical Room, OFFICERS 1899-1900. Patron— WM. KIR BY, F. R. S. C. President— MISS CARNOCIIAN. Vice-President— H ENRY PAFFARD. Secretarv— ALFRED HALL. Treasurer— MRS. A. SERVOS. Curator— RUSSELL WILKINSON. HON. VICE F»RliSinKNTa, MRS. ROE, CHAS. F. BALL. COMMITTEE. REV. I. C. GARRETT, REV. N. SMITH. W. VV. IRELAND, B.A., CHAS. HUNTER. MRS. T. F. BEST. • HONORAieV MEMBERS. DR. SCADDING, DAVID BOYLE, Ph. D., REV. CANON BULL, DR. JESSOP, M.P.P., V^M. GIBSON, M.P., CA,PT. R. O KONKLE, COL. CRUIKSHANK, MAJOR HISCOTT, JOKN ROSS ROBERTSON, M.P. ■ fi' '■» '.'■ • ■ * " if ■J- >!■ 1' « ^«, ' ''J i. .*■ ' H » -'<, : '>t;- ' »'S TWO 4 PWlt AK^Ii ^S^T^lfi^. NO. 7. The Centennlal~An Old Canadian rort, By Rev. J. C. Garrett. Locust Grove, Residence of Mrs. J. W. Ball, By C. A. F. Ball. Two Frontier Churches— Fort nisslssagua- Now Hall- Jail and Court House— French count's House, By Jaiiet Carnochan. PRICB ao CBNTS. TUE TiMES BOOK A JOB PKESSeS. Niagara, Ont. .'■■■/I !■ J - - ^- PREFACE, IN presentinjij the sevenlh ot the series ol publications ot the Niaj^ara Historical Society tlie hope is expressed that 't may meet with the favor extended to previous issues. It is a con- tinuation of the Historic Houses hei,^un in No. 5, and \vc luipe to still continue the series. The "Centennial Poem" ami "Two Frontier Churches have been repiinteil by request. Tlie illustra- tions, some of which have appeared betore, and others which have been enj^raved specially for this issue, will, it is hopod, add to the interest of the pamphlet. Any inlormation addii.g^ to our historic lore will be j,'^ladly receivoil. H 1^ ■I • • !" » c Oft; 1792, ^ A*- 1792. The Centennial, i8g. Written on the Centonary of St. Mark's Church, Niagara BY THE KEV. J. C. (JAKKETT. DBDICATION. TO ALL WHO HAVE IN ANY WAY BEEN RELATED TO Win^niEVER FOL'Nl) TO-DAY, THESE LINES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. Hail ! all Hail ! dear old St. Mark's ! We greet thee Joyfully, and well Upward thy Praise, As Sky-larks Sing, o'er Ji eld and wooded dell, Far up in heaven's own blue. We, too, would sing thy fame, And tell abroad thv name Of worth and honor true. Ring ! Ring ! loud and mei ry bell ! And thou, great organ, thunder too ! Wide open every swell ! Join eveiy voice anew. Out on the morning air, to tell Thy story true and well. On this thy day Centennial ! ■wn- t • tV ' ill 111 I'". !■ In 2— The Centennial. 1. O SACRED PILE ! Thine ag-e tliou bearest well ! Over Niajjara's harbor, at Ontario's head, Between Forts Georjj^e and Mississaiig^ua dread, A hundred years thou hast stood sentinel. Where, standing- still, as beacon on a hill. Far out from haven, thy square tower we view ; Above whose summit, higher rising- still, Waves in the breeze our flag — Red, White and Blue- For Churchmen true are loyal everywhere ; Who to the State g-ave being, ever bear Upon their hearts its interests with a will. Nor loyalty, if in thy precincts fair It be not found : to king- and country true, Our sires, than power, or fame, or glittering gold. Honor esteemed, which must to country hold Their sons and thine, and other loves dispel, By ties of living and the bonds of dead. II. Grand old St. Mark's ! he treads on hallowed g-round, Who over thy gates* threshold sets his foot ; For all around thy witnesses, though mute, By lite and death its sacredness profound Proclaim. Blended in thee is found the dust Of soldier brave and sailor bold, the wise, Poet, patriot, priest and humbler just. Waiting the day and call ag^ain to rise. Rest they together in a peace most true. In hidden spot or place more clear to view ; 'Neath Christian sign, or heathen urn or crust Of marble pale, which tastes of times devise, That yet a coming time could never suit. 3- But yet what matters such, when loves entwuie. And rise beyond the shade of earthly sign, And but the clay lies resting- 'neath the mound ? "• ■'■ III. If there be place, within our earth's confines Than other place more sacred, sweet and pure, (No other's niore of love and honor sure, How far soever we may stretch the lines), It is this place, where, from turmoil secure. Our simple praises rise an upward stream. Till cflows the heart, as when the captives dream Of lands, where freedom's sun forever shines ; And when the Heavenly mysteries are spread. Aged by Aged to God's board is led — Most saintly men, whose earthly duty done. Look towards the land of never-setting sun — In verity, it makes thee sweetly seem The gate of heaven and pathway to our Head. While all around us lie, in peaceful sleep Our best beloved, who used with us to keep Sad vigil and the ji>yful holy-day, Whose souls o'er Jordan winged from us away, That they some foretaste of that joy might reap, Which we with them to share both hope and pray. Sweetness itself thou art ! Thy life in Him We prove in prayer, in praise, and rite ; though dim Our view, our faith is clear, and brighter love. And prayer thus joined to solemn chant and hymn, In thee below, we rise to things above : Our treasure there, though stil! our hearts are here ; Yet our affection is as sure on high ; For love of thee foreshadows as we move, The coming love, for which we often sigh. Which shall be ours, when we have victory won ; :>.■:-'■ '. ' ' m fh' ' i n. 'Mi !i" -4- And from each face Himself shall wipe last tear- The God so distant, yet, in Christ, more ni^h Than even thou, the fabric held so dear ! IV. Hig-h on the bank, 'mid beauteous settinjjf Of feathery willow, chestnut-tree and pine, By which the river flows,- as if forgetting- Its leap sublime ; its seething, swirling, fretting ; Its rush and roar, adown the steep decline ; The deep and massy goblet, never quaffed, Held in His hidden hand, Who made and lined It of a russet hue, with gold unfined ; And yet around which demons oft have laughed. If helpless victim drawn adown its shaft To them give joy, whose depths we cannot sound ; Within whose lips the water, bright blue-gfreen. With foam-flecked surface as each age hAs seen, Must wind and whirl as though the g-ods had spoon Deep plunged therein, and stirred in turn from e'en Till midnight, then to morn, anon to noon, And yet to night again — repeatii round And round within its awful circle's bound : Anon in sober majesty to flow. In stately grandeur now its way to find Into Ontario's arms, which round it twine. As if, at length, embrace of mother sweet, Returning child, after adventurous feat. With welcome, eager happily did greet ; Of both the love and life — so it appears — To make complete and back on thee to throw Their happiness, in such bright, golden glow As rests on faces which have done with tears, Thou hast been placed Centurion of years. -5- V. Away down yonder, at thy feet below, Where breezes raise the swell, and onward waft Beyond the bar, where dang-er's steallhiest Steps pursue, to rob us of our very best As to their sorrow our poor hearts well know — For by thy door we read their tale of woe — On the lake's heaving bosom may be seen, Between and on some white and foamy crest, Like silvered fold on robe of pale blue-^reen, Well manned by such as little know of fears. All hidden now, anon each one appears, The fisher-boats ; beyond which, farther far. Curling from funnel of great steaming- craft, A wide diffused feather hangs abaft Where it ascends, spreading away behind Horizon ward, wher» melts it into sheen — A long grey streamer floating on the wind. And other ships, with sails on every spar. On which beat hearts of man) an honest tar, Swiftly they speed, some haven sweet to find, Saluting passers-by with mirthful cheers, Anigh the harbour and within the bay, And thou dost watch them, near and tar away, As still thou standest this Centennial Day. These on the water. On the sandy beach, With unprotected feet and pail and spade, And dresses above knees to readier wade. Near by and all the sandy shore along, Their little ships securely held to sail. The children play ; while fishers mend their net and reel it up, with whistling and gay song h- »••• -, j; ■ ■ ■ V f 1. •:■■'- M^' *: f :■:, t ■ - I. ' — 6- To help. Where find more happy, gleeful throng ? Their jheeks like roses ot a brownish shade, Laid on a groundwork soft as peach's bloom, And eyes, like jewels in some setting pale, Outflashing joy without a shade ot gloom — Roses and eyes are they, a prize to get ! And now their shouts and laughter our ears reach, Of innocence, the joyful sound and speech ; In their sweet hearts for guile is yet no room ; A hundred years here passing, looking yet, Continued, still is going on thy tale. VII. l^M a But landward look ! See lying all around. As with their fragrance all the air is fraught, So sweet and peaceful on enchanted*ground, Peach-tree and vine, quince, plum and apricot. Pear-tree and apple, all everywhere abound. The early yiolet, late forget-me-not, June rose and autumn, too ; laburnum's gold, Accacia purply fair, and other blow Follow along, until the spring is old. Of deeper hue or white as driven snow, Bringing such thoughts as prove, though it be cold. Love ever lives, and needs but cherishing, Atnidst which standing, thou time-honored pile, Thy life suLlime still by them nourishing, The pride of which to our cheeks brings a glow ; Inanimate nideed, yet living all the while. As to and fro in group and single file. Men come and go, or swiftly or but slow ; And whither ? Who can tell us ? Who can know ? Living to-day — to-morrow perishing ! Yet still thou watchest the great river's flow ! r^ -7— VIII. Still standest thou, and nij^^h as fresh and fair As those who, bkishing, came tj thee as brides Long' years ag'o ; and still thy grace we laud, Tlioiig-h faded theirs. Scene of many a story Within thy sacred precincts has bean viewed : In days of peaceful worship naught divides From thy true use ; yet did presumptuous dare, In day of war, in other nation's name, To claim thy shelter, and to change thy use, And desecrate surrounding tombs, nor shame To feel. Fragrant thine aisle: of flowers there strewed, 'Neath mourners' feet and feet of those who glory Bore — a throng of youth mature and hoary — Who came, who went, who yet return no more, ' Though ears in listening attitude have waited. Are waiting still, to hear them as of yore. Hoping they homeward travel though belated. Again to get the greeting of fond love — The greeting sweet to give them in return ; And eyes, too, strain out to the distance dim, While prayer goes upward to the throne above ; For, while life lasts, the holy fire must burn On love's high altar, and desire shall hymn. Each day, its fondness forth, then upward turn. In hopeful prayer unto the ear or Him Who heareth ever. Whose best name is Love, In Whom, though severed, yet are all related. Even now thy sacred walls and well-trod floor — Holy to us because of those who trod Thereon, who rest in peace to-day with God — Re-echo still each footstep to our ear ; Re-echo, too, in tones th'i while subdued, The lessons taught of truth and fortitude. Which make the burdens, that we still must bear, . ,.■■■■ '■' y.r': ■(.. i' '■(:'■ '■[^W ' I- .;•, ■ '-.' m *4* ' '■ m 8- The easier borne ; re-erho, too, the prayer — Common to us as to them m their day — Whose influence lives, though they have passed away ; And principles, by which our sires imbued — Like them to be, w^e well may hope and pray — Made them, what now they ever shall appear. Men that were Men, whose bright, unsullied fame Makes it our gladness to extol their name ! Yes, here they lived, and moved, and were endued By that which only can be power — the fear Of God — which them to Him, this land their king, As truth itselt made true ; whose honor ring The future ages shall, and whose high praise. So long as men have voice, the true shall sing ; Long as the sun on man shall shed his rays, For them thy sons to God thanksgiving raise ! IX. The holy priests — quaint Addison, sweet Creen ; McMurray honored sees thy present day — Surrounded were, as stars in heaven are seen, By lesser lights along the Milky-way. Bravely they labored for the common good, Nor unreproached of such as should sustain — Saints live not here alone on angels' food ; On rougher fare is fed their nobler name. The path of virtue is a path of pain ; Nor true is virtue where is never blame ; For blame is fostered by the vicious rude ; Nor lived the man who might no weakness claim, Whatever height in grace he did attain. My soul with theirs be joined, when, to the clay. My body has been laid, like theirs, to rest ! Our dust, redeemed, at length shall waken blest. And all made pure, as Christ doth make the heart. :-i . ^\ I. ■;<',* .5^ :»^. -,sx. \ ■^ % I ) ^ ^,&^-''- vV ^.~ .^~- -9— To soul rejoin, as part to fitted part. '. Death, of this life, is but the crucial test — The final proof of our triumphal taith ; And thou art "found," as the apcstle saith, "In Him," g"od-soul. Whose own thou surely art, Who serve in life, and praise with latest breath. They havingf proved His love's length, heijjht ; its breadth And depth ; the beatific vision seen ; Ended, and well, their holy ministry — So well, thou art their moiniment, 1 ween ! X. Thy youth renew, surrounded, as thou art, By such a host as round thee sleeping lie ! Live still ! Connecting- link for ages be, Of those who live, those from the bodv free. AIhs ! poor mortals, we in turn must die ! To-day lives none who saw thy welcome birth ; And who «jhall live thy final day to see ? Thy ended work and all completed worth ? Live ! Teach Thou still to all that better part In Him, Whose witness still thou dost abide ; And comfort sweet yet s^ive to many a heart Before it cross death's dark and narrow firth ! Continue, thou ! no matter what beiide The ministers, who serve, in course, in thee ! Live on ! For hearts be truest earthly home, Until to heavenly home at length they come ! Chime thy sweet influence, afar and nig-h. From thy pure centre, 'neath the heavenly dome ! Live, though men die — a standing proot still be Of Catholic faith and Christian liberty ! Out to the world God's love in Christ still ring, Until it echo from each mountain side ! Live, love and lift to every holy thing. And ever prove the Palace of the King ! ■.,: !■ . '■f ■■'^ ADDRESSKD TO An Old Canadian rort. * BY REV. J. C. OARJIETT. Tell us, ye broken walls, speak out, yc fallen stones. The story of that past which time doth shroud — Swift wrecking- time, which, deaf to all your g-roans, By storm and tempest, sunshine, cloud, Did scarify your body, without trowel. Did cleave from your hig^h head unflinching brow, So nobly borne, in times both fair and foul. Tell us, did war or peace your spirit bow ? Brave sons of France were they, the sea who crossed, By aid of Aborigines you reared ! How was it then their cause and yours was lost, When face of foeman you had never feared ? When through the forest scarce a track was made. And wily Indian must your soldiers guide, Made offered chance his remnant honour fade ? And did he sell you to the other side ? *Fort Chambly, a military post on the rivor Iticlieliou, was origiiuilly built of wood by M. de Chambly, a retired captain of tiie regiiuentof Carignan Salieres, in 1(565, It was often attacked by the Iroquois, was after- wards rebuilt of stone in 1771. In 1775 was captured by the Americans, but retaken in 177(5. Its eventful history is thus vividly and picturesquely des- cribed as attacked in turn by French, Indian, British, American. The Hec- tor of St. Mark's with such a subject writes sympathetically, ministering .is he does in an historic church. * J. C. Who were the men that, from your summit, tore The three-barred flaj^-, which there so proudly waved ? I reckon, every stone with hallowed jjore, Of those who faced as guns and cannon raved, Which true hearts for their Kinjj and country pour. Was all bespattered, ere that standard tell, And they, who it sustained, the fight gave o'er, Who fought to lose both gallantly and well. While rose the prayer as mass at noon was sung, Or vesper song at even filled the air, As bell, thrice tolled, most solemnly was reuig. Did rite, religious, aagur dark despair? if Holy Christ down on your altar came, Making its tabernacle throne divine. How dared the passion of heretic fame, By weapons carnal, grace like this outshine? 1 So strange it seems while looking at you now, That with such presence effort all proved vain ; Eternal strength and yours, so joined, allow Such misdirected circumstantial train, To culminate in climax of such doom, As, scarred and broken, left you desolate ; Of perished love and cherished hate the tomb As well as monument ; alas ! the fate ! ■I ■I ■ . It Yet, better was it, after all, that change, Through struggle, costly, came at weary length, Which mingled in a peace, both great and strange. The elements, which, blended, made the strength, • That needs not, now, protector's help from you. But on your great decrepitude can look, And feel from former terror freedom true, And you as harmless as the near-by brook. ■ . ■ i i L 1 ■ i w '1 J2 More lovely in your ruined fallen state, Than when in pride your cruel cannon roared, In hurling forth their sanguinary fate On hearts as true as ever wielded sword : The drowsy kine, asleep upon your floor, Young swallows, peeping forth from many a nest. Make truer beauty, than when warrior bore. Within your walls, in pride of rank, plumed crest. Hard by, in yonder mound, now sleep the dead. Through whose veins swiftly coursed the martial fire ; And worthy foeman, who of each had dread. Have long forgotten their unholy ire : Their dust together rests, so well combined That none could tell, that they had ever fought Against each other, nor can be defined Relic of friend or foe in that green spot. Where emblem of the Christ each way an arm Spreads, as in benediction, over all, Assurance that no swift-winged, dread alarm ' Can back to earthly carnage ever call : Your ruin is, for them, blest monument ; For us, the pledge of an united love, In a true peace, which never shall be rent — The eagU pinioned 'neath the outspread dove. Nought say you ; yet your silence is loud speech — So loud that o'er the din of rapids' roar. In soul, is heard the lesson that you teach ; Trusting time cometh, when vile war no more Shall make the need of fortress high and strong, When hand of brother in a brother's gore No mere rhall be imbrued. God grant the long, Sweet peace — the blissful evermore 1 Two rronticr CluirclKis. J I y JA NK T (Li U sou 11. 1 N. A \Y,\\)vy rt'Mil hcl'orc llic ("aiiiidiaii Iiislitiitc at Xia^ar; iulv. ISIK). '>!) -'IK I nr [I oui,""!!! to tc ;m iiUeiostini^- ;iiicl instructive task lo trace tlic history o\ these i w o churches et Nijij^ara, St. Mark's and Si. An- drew's datiui^ ahnost a centiu'}' back, the one 1792 the other 1794 and see hciw maiiv links in the history oi our town and even ot" our country can be filled in from those records, which j^ive an ever sliiftiiiiiC kaleidoscope of dilTereni nationalities, of pioneer life, of military occupatit^n, of the re.l in in Britain's faiiiiful allv, of the poor slave here for the first time by any nation treed by lei^'al en- actment, of strenuous elTorls tor reli^'-ious liberty by appeals to GoViMMior and Queen, of sweet chiu'ch bells, o^ booming- cannons and blazing' rooftrecs. The often-repeated -^neer tiiat Canada has \^o history has been so easily refuted in the case of oin- eastern prcu-inces with their store ot French chivalry and Saxon force, of missionary zeal and Indian barbarities, ot fortresses taken and retaken, but still the phrase ling-ers with reg'ard to Ontario. Surely, we in this Nia- l^ara peninsula lack nothing to disprove a statement wh'ch, to their shame, many among us allow to pass as if it were a truth. When we think that within the last twc^ centuries four races have her'^ fought for empire, that within sight of us are traces of the adventurous La Salle who traversed thousands of miles by sea and land to perish so miserably on tlie banks of tiie river of his search; when we think of this spot as an Indian camping ground, of the lilies of France yielding to our flag even before Wolfe's great vie- 14- .«■ . ; Si.'d tory, of the landing- here of loyal men driven from their homes of plenty to hew out in the forests of this new land a shelter under the flag- they loved, of invasion, and three years ot bitter strife, surely we have a right to say we have a history. In my attempt to sketch the story of these two churches I have an ample store of very difTerent materials, a picturesque j,'-rey stone church with projecting- buttresses and square tower peeping through the branches of mag-nificent old trees, many tablets inside and out, tombstones hacked and defaced by the rude hand of war, an old register dating back to 1792, kept with scrupulous neat- ness, all these in the one case ; in the other, in the old volume which lies before me, the interesting- business records of almost a century from 1794.. if not of so romantic a nature, still sliewing the sterling metal of this people, telling of bright days and dark days, of prosperity and adversity, of lightning stroke and tornado, as well as of * 'conflagration pale," of patient and strenuous elTiirts by appeals to Governor and Queen from this almost the first Pres- byterian Church in Upper Canada. It may be questioned if any other churches in our land can show such interesting- records. Now, that the modern tourist has invaded our quiet town and learned of the beauties with which we are so familiar, I am al- ways pleased to remember that as a cliild I loved and admired St, Mark's, that it was my ideal of an old lilnglisli parish church, and churchyard, and in those days the tourist had not conie to tell us what to admire. When the late lamented Dean Stanley visited St. Mark's he said, "this is a piece of eld Kugland, do nor allow it to be altered." The reg^ister of St. Mark's is unique in this particular, that in almost a century that has elapsed there have only been three Incumbents, one with a record of 37 years, an- other 27, the third, the Rev. Archdeacon McMurray, by whose courtesy I have had access to this record, of thirty-four years. Its value is shown by the fact that permission was obtained some years since to copy all the earlier pag^es, and this has been placed in the archives of the Historical Society of the city of Buffalo. The Rev. Mr. Addison must have had a vein of quiet humor, as shewn by the quaint remarks interpolated here and there alike at baptism, wedding or burial. He was evidently a scholar and a -J5 lover of books, for his library of several hundred volumes, now in the possession of the Church would brini^ from far and near the lover of rare and curious old books. Here is a Breeciies Bible and Prayer Book in which prayer is offered tor Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles' I., and in dull dusky leather many rare and valuable books to rejoice the heart of the bibliomaniac. The first entry is "Aug^. 23, 1792, Henry Warren, bachelor, to Catherine A^iow, spinster. Auj^. 24th, Capt. James Hamilton, to Louisa, his wife." The remark appended to this tells a tale of anew country. ''They had been married by some commandinsi^ officer or maj^istrate and thou«,'-ht it more decent to have the office repeated." "April 12, 1794, William Dixon, bachelor, to Char- lotte Adlem, spinster. May 15, Col. John Butler of the Ranjjers buried, (my patron." Here is a pathetic entry, "July, 1794, bur- ied a child of a poor stran^>er called Chambers. Sept. 9, buried a soldier surfeited by drinkinj,'- cold water. Baptisms, Sept. 3, Cloe, a mulatto. Married, John Jacks -nid Rose Moore, nej^roes." These must have come to their new homes slaves, but to the honor of Canada, be it said, by Act of the Parliament which sat within siijht ot this spot, declared free lon^ before Britain by many a hard fouj^ht strug^s^le in the House ot Commons made her chattels free, or our neig-hbors by the unstinted pourin*);- out of mil- lions, and of a more costly treasure of tears and blood, did the same. The next entry tells of the time when this was the capital, •'Buried, an infant child of the Atty.-Gan.'s servant ; and Oct. loth, R. B. Tickell buried," and the comment on some to us never to be explained traj^-edy, "Alas he was starved." "Sept. 24th, White, the butcher from Enj^^land, and an Indian child." It is noticeable that the rector must have been indefatif>able in his ex- ertions, for we find him baplizinj;' at 12 Mile Creek, 20 Mile Creek, 40 Mile Creek, Ancaster, Fort Erie, St. Catharines, Head of the Lake, Chippawa, Grantham, Falls, York, Long- Point. On these occasions, and when people came from long distances to Nias^ara, there are often a great many baptisms recorded on the one day, the comment "of riper years" shewing many besides children were baptized. June 24th, 1799, occurs a well-known name. *' Baptism, Allan Napier McNabb, from York," as also -It; ' ■!;.:■" "».V '■ "* :' 'it' .1 • • 16 occur the names of Ridout, Givens, Macaulay from the same place, "Buried, , worn out by excess at ilie a^e of 59. Bap. tized, Amos Smith, of riper years. Buried, old Mr. Doutlle. Baptized, 1801, David, son of Isaac, a Mohawk Indian. Huried, 1802, Cut Nose Johnson, a Mohawk chief. Poor old Trumper, Capt. Pilkini^ton's j^ardener. " These slii,»-!n descriptive terms show a human interest, a kind heart, a humorous vein. It is re- markable that in all the early notices of baptisms, there is noiliin.r but the name and those of the father and mother ; alter some lime come notices of j^od-mothers, and in 1806 this fuller notice : ".May 3rd, Eliza Ann Maria Viijoreux, daus^hter of Capt. Heiuy. Royal Eng"ineers, and Eliza, ifodfather Rev. Louis Vii=;"oreux." Mere is the name of one who justly or unjustly received muc'i hiame in the war. "Baptism, Nov. 20th, 1808, Aujji^ustus Mar^'-aret Fiith, daug"hter of Col. Henry Proctor, commandant ol the 41st Rci^i- ment, and Elizabeth, Married, Dec. iilh, 1807, Lieut. Wm. Proctor, brother of Col. Henry Proctor, commaiitiiiii^ at Fort Geor^^-e. to loan Crooks. Nov., 1807, John Conrad Gat man, an old German. Buried, 1810, Master Taylor of looih Rei^iinent, killed by lig-htninij". Old .\men Misner, May 5th, 1S12. .Married, Thomas McCormack, bachelor, to .Augusta Jarvis, spinstei." Here is the brief record of tlie hero ol' Upper l^anacla, wlio did so much bv wise counsels, prompt action, and iiii.l.iiinied courage, to save our country and repel the invader, who, i^allop- ingf away in the early morning, was broui,''ht back by liis compan- ions in arms m sorrow and j^loom, a corpse. "Oct. lOlh, i,'-ether in the iioriii- east bastion of Fort Geor<^-e." In the lUilTalo paper, in ulm:h some of these were copied, occurs the rather aslonishini;- aiul not easily to be understood statement "we now approach the perioil ol' the second war of independence." How an armed inva^^ion of a peaceful neig-hborini^ country can be called a war of independence by the invader is an unsolved mystery. Also referriiii,"" to the burning" of our town by the Americans, before evacuatiui^- our ter- ritory, these words occur. "In one oi the ent^ai^ements hclweeii tlie opposing' forces St. Mark's took fire :ind all but the solid W: — J7— stone wall was consumed." Hew diflferently can be described the same event by different people. During the time of the occupation of the town by the Ameri- cans from May to December, the notices go on in St. Mark's Register, but it may be noted that there are no marriages except those of two Indian chiefs, thus recorded, "Mohawk chief Capt. Norton, to his wife Catherine, I think on 27th July, 1813, when she was baptized, and Jacob Johnson, another Mohawk chief vvits married to his wife Mary on 21st August this year, Buried, July 17th, Col. C. Bishop, died of his wounds." As this brave young soldier was buried at Lundv's Lane, Mr. Addison must have been called on to ride all these miles to perform this service. The next item gives us another glimpse of warfare. *'On the day on which the engagement between Sir James Yeo and Commander Chauncey took place on the lake, our dear friend Mrs. McNabb was buried in Mr. Servos' burying ground, supposed to be 29th September, 1813." This, history gives as the 28th Sept., but it is evident that during this exciting period some of the entries have bet^n made from memory. Here is an entry which shows that though Parliament had been removed, Niagara was preferred as a burial place to York. "19th June, 1816 — Buried, George Lane, Esq., U-her of the Black Rod." "Married, 1817, Rev, VVm. Samson, minister of Grimsby, to Maria Nelles. Buried, 1819, James Rogers, innkeeper," and the remark, "a bad profession for any but very sober men." Sept. 23rd, 1822, Poor old Hope. Feb, 23rd — Biptized, Agnes Strachan, daughter of Hon. Dr. J. Strach- han. Rector of York, and Ann his wife." Here may be seen the names of most of the Regiments that have been quartered here, 41st 8th King's, looth, 99th, 70th, Sappers and Miners. Of these we still find traces in buttons picked up at Fort George with these numbers. Rev. Mr, Addison was military chaplain for many years. In 1810 we find another name as performing baptisms in that capacity. The last entry in this hand is 1827. in tremulous characters signed Instead of full name, "R. A," And here, in another hand, is re- corded the burial of this venerable man, whose zeal, piety and kindness of heart we have seen told al) unwittingly in these pages. -J8— ii JTS i. "Oct. 9th, 1829 — The Rev. Robert Addison departed this life on the 6th, in the 75th year of his af>-e." On the outside wall of the church is a large tablet to his memory, and inside another with this inscription : **In memory of Rev. Robt. Addison, first missionary in this district of the venerable the Society for the Propa^^ation of the Gospel in Foreig-n parts. He commenced his labors in 1792, which, by the blessing of Divine Providence, he was enabled 10 continue for 37 years. Besides his stated services as minister ot St. Mark's in the town, he visited and officiated in dilTerciU parts of this and adjoining districts until other missionaries arrived. He was born in Westmoreland, England. 'Remember tlieiii which have the rule over you.' " The Church was consecrated in 1828, on Sunday, Aug 3rd, by the Hon. and Rt. Rev. Charles James, brother of the I'luri of Galloway, and Lord Bishop of Quebec, in the presence of His lix- cillency Sir Peregrine Maitland, K. C.B., his stalF, and other dignitaries. Morning prayer was said by Rev. Robt. Addison, the lesson and litany by Rev. Robert Creen, the assistant minis- ter, the Bishop preaching. So far, I have not met with any documenlaiy tvidciue lo show exactly when the church was budt, or how long in process of construction. The new part can be plainly seen forminu;' liie cross, while the nave containing the tower 'is the o\d p:.rt, as shown by the color of the stone. The pulpits, curiously carved, have the date 1843. Before the church was built, the congregation seems to have met in the Court House, near the site of the present o^^ i88o." Outside the eastern wall is the story of one who has been fondly remembered, for his tragic fate is recorded also inside the church on a marble tablet. "Sacred to the memory of Capt. Copeland RadclilTe, of His Britanic Majesty's Navy, who fell whilst f»-allantly leadini^ on his men to board one of the enemy's schooners at anchor off Fort Erie on the nigfht ot the 17th Aut;ust, 1814." One is erected at request of brothers and sisters by his iiephew, the other by Capt. Dawes, R.N., at reiquest of his mother. We cannot but drop a tear to the memory of a brave young- sailor, Another near this, "Donald Campbell, Islay, Argyleshire, Fort Major of Pon Georg-e, died ist Dec, 1812, Interred on West side of Garrison Gate at Fort George." Also the name of Lieut.-Col Elliot, K.C. B., who fought in the Peninsular war. Col. Kingsmill, and a daughter of Chief Justice Sewcli. In the church altogetherare fifteen tablets, two in the vestibules and three on the outer walls. It may be noted that seven are to military and naval heroes, four to clergymen ; four women's names are here handed down. Much might be said of the beauty of llie spot, of the quaint pulpits and vaulted roof, of the chime of bells and the air of quiet repose, but where so many facts have to be r-^'-orded, the ajstlietit and the emotional must be left for another pen or another time. In turning now to ihe history of St. Andrew's we find many places where the records seem to touch, and each help out the other, where the story of one corresponds with the other, and again is widely different. While much attention has lieen at- tracted to the beautiful old church of St. Mark's, to which so much romance clings, from the fact th.at it is almost the only biiiklinj,' now left which was not totally destroyed by the fire of 1813, very little is known of the early history of St. Andrew's. The t^Mave- yard too is comparatively modern, as all denominations used that of St. Mark's for many years. There are no old grey stones muti- lated by the hand of war. no tablets in the wall, no stained glass to give that dim religious light some so much admire. The pre- sent church is a square solid uncompromisnig looking structure of brick and stone with a belt of solemn pines on the north and as been icie the of His on his off Fort ected at ■ Capt, drop a ydr this, ."f Kott iarrison 5t, K.C. , and a re fifteen Is. It four to le quaint of quiet aesthetic ■ time, ml many 1 out tiie lier, and been at- so much buildinij ii3, very ; s^M'ave- ised that es muti- ed i^Hass riie pre- icture of Drill and I ' I An thill no sole erec pur a c of J clre\ lane mat Her wo I We —23- west. While St. Mark's was built of solid stone, these church pioneers built of less enduritij;' material, and thus nothinjj is lett of the buildinji;- of 1794, built on the same spot as the present ciuircli, erected sixty years aj^-o. The history of the church is pre- served in an old leather-covered book, with thick yellow paper, dated 1794, and curious glimpses ar'j given of our country's pro- jrress. The oldest Presbyterian church in Ontario is believed to be VVilliamstown, 1786, which with several others in the vicinity was presided over by Rev. John Bethune. This ranks next. It may easily be seen that St. Mark's had an immense advantage, with a settled clergyman, with a salary from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel of ^200, while St. Andrew's struggling under a load of debt for many years, with many breaks from the confusion and distress caused by the war, could only have been kept alive by the strenuous exertions of its members. We find many of the same names on the records of both churches. Some baptized in St. Mark's in the breaks in the history of St. Andrew's. Many of llic residents had pews in both churches. It is interest- ing to note that while St, Mark's register uses the name Niagara, and Newark never occurs, St. Andrew's record uses the word Newark from 1794, and in 1802 the name Niagara occurs. As a matter of hislory the name Niagara was formally resumed 1798 The record dates from 30th September, 1794, and reads thus : A number of people met tliis day at Hind's Hotel, and resolved that "as religion is the foundation of all societies, and which can- not be so strictly adhered to without having a place dedicated solely to divine purposes, that a Presbyterian church should be erected in the town of Newark and that subscriptions for that purpose be immediately set on foot as well as for the support of a clergymrui of the same persuasion." The committee consisted of John Young, Pour Mile Creek, Chairman ; Ralfe Clench, An- drew Heron,, Robt. Kerr, Alexander Gardiner, William McLel- land, Alexander Hemphill, any three to form a quorum in trivial matters, but in matters of importance the whole to be assembled. Here follows a bill of lumber, the size of the timbers required would move the wonder of our modern frames, 8x12 and 6x9. We see the size of the building to have been 46x32. No grass m — 1 Hv In : ; * '.\ H ' * C * ^HH ''^ 1 , m \- ■' :.,'^ r i;-: ■■ f ■ ■'! -24— M' was allowed to grow under the feet of these pioneers, for the next day ist October, follows an agreement binding them to support Rev. John Dun, promising to pay ;^300 for three years, ;^'ioo per year with house room, a previous copy having been made out 23rd Sept. The agreement is from 30th June for the same year, showing that they had enjoyed his services from that date. Then follows an agreement as to windows, there being sixteen with 40. 24 and 12 lights respectively. A petition to Land Board for four lots in one square 157, 158, 183, 184. By referring to a plan of the town, we see that the first church stood where the present one now stands. A copy of subscriptions for building the church, dif- ferent sums subscribed from 8 shillings to ;^'io, while the amounts promised for the support of clergyman are about the same per year. Andrew Heron is appointed Treasurer, and "this is to be made public, as the frame is shortly expected down and the money will be wanted for the purpose of paying for the same." The whole amount subscribed at the time was ;;^2i5, of which ;^I50 is marked paid. Among the names is that of Samuel Street, ^8. Then follow receipts from Rev. John Dun ot yearly salary : plans for seating and pewing church are brought forward Sept. 1795. On March, 1796, a sexton employed for j£6 N.Y. cy. On the same date pews to be let for £t; and ;^5 each. Here appear the names of Col. Butler, Peter Ball, Daniel Servos, Andrew Heron for sums as high as £10. The 21 seats let this day amount to ;^i5o. The last receipt given by Mr. Dun is 8tii May, 1797. His name is found afterwards among the pevvholders as he gave up the ministry and engaged m trade. The next busi- ness meeting is Sept. 2nd, 1802, when the Rev, Jno. Young of Montreal is engaged, to have the privilege of teaching a school. The same day the thanks of the meeting are given to Mr. John McFarland for the bell which he has been pleased to present to the church. Again the seats are let and the names of William and James Crooks, John and Colin McNabb, Jas. Muirhead, the heirs of the late Col. Butler, who, we find from St, Mark's register, died 1796. Then follow lists of payments for glass, putty, stoves, stovepipes, rum for glaziers, rum for raising (2 gallons), interest- ing as shewing the prices then, rope for bell, "rope wetted," '^■•i —25- whatcvcr that may mean I leave for wiser heads ; covering and foiinJiition for steeple, so that we see the first church had a spire a-! well as the present ; charj^e for rinj^^iiig the bell. Accounts from 1804 to 1812, all in a pejuliar lar^^-e hand, the writing almost tilling the line, and though so large exceedingly diffitiilt to read All this time, although there was considerable debt, Mr. Heron seems to have advanced money when needed. We fiiitl in 1795 a "large balance unpaid and a great deal to be done to make the church convenient and comfortable." An ob- iijjatioii drawn out requesting "loan of money from those who were able to lo'ui any to this laudable purpose, that the building be not impeded." The baptisms in this book are only from Aug. 1795, to 1802, except two daughters of A. Heron, recorded in his own peculiar liaiul 1809 and 1814, Nov. 27th, thi latter nearly a year after the burning of the church. The baptisms are performed by the regu- lar ministers and others called visiting ministers. One in 1792 by Rev. John McDonald from Albany, U. S. The children of Ebenezer Colver, township of Louth are entered as baptized in 1781, 1783 and 1791, earlier «^^han any in St. Mark, but the per- formin;,' Clergyman is not mentioned, but showing that in those early (.lays this duty was not neglected. Rev. Mr. Mars, a visit- in;,' Clergyman from 1st Feb. to 14th March, 1801, baptized several. Here we find the good old word "yeoman" used. Here is a notice which seems to show friction of some sort. "Resolved that this church is under the direction and control of the majority of the trustees and not subject to the direction of the cler^'ynian." "Resolved that the pulpit, being part of the church, is subject to the majority of the trustees." Provision, however, seems to have been made even at that early date for their share in government, of the minority^ of which our politicians may take a note. "Resolved that in case of a division of the Society the churcli shall be held alternately by each party, that is one week to one party and one week to the other. The key of the church to be left at all timas with the trustee residing nearest to the church in order that the majority of the trustees may know where to find it when they may see fit to admit a preacher." V:: ',>;' %:■■■. 1' »■ :■> —26— In 1804 Mr. Heron presentcJ an account for ^'176 Ss. 3d. law- ful mjuev U. C, inspected and approved, as also account of Mr. Youn^ j^2j, aisj approved. Of these we shall see more as the years roll on. Resolved that in 1805 that Andrew Heron be clerk. April, 1805, persons named are authorized to obiui^ ser- vices ot a clerj^-yman at the rate of £j>f and;^5o to teach 13 pupils, if he be inclined, in Latin, Greek and Mathematics. In this ob- lif^ation to pay, the word dollars occurs for the first time. In 1809 the Rev. John Burns j^ives half his time to church, the pews to be let for one-half of that in 1796. His name is also mentioned in 1805 and appears during- the years 1810 — 11, 16, 17, 18. He, it appears taught the grammar school and gave part of his time to the congregation, as sometimes he is mentioned as preaching every third Sunday and sometimes every fourth.. Different efforts seem to have been made to obtain a Presbyterian of Established Church of Scotland, in 1806, communicating with Rev. Jas. Mc- Lean, of Glasgow, agreeing to pay his expenses out. He actually preached during June, July, August, the church to be open to Rev. John Burns when it did not interfere with any other engage- ment ot Trustees. In 1809 subscriptions set on foot to finish the church. From 181 2 to 181 6 there are no records. No doubt, the war scattered the people and broke up the congrega- tion. Here agam St. Mark's had a great advantage, a resident clergyman and a stone church not entirely destroyed ; for heavy as were the timbers of St. Andrew's, they only fed the llames more fiercely. In 1818 agreement with Rev. Chas. Jas. Cook. Then in 1820 a petition to the Earl of Dalhousie for a sum of money to build a church in town and give title to land o[\ which former church did stand. A collection at Divine Service to repair windows and buildingf as far as necessary for comfort of congregation (supposed to be school house). In the Gleaner lying before me for 1818, published in Niagara, is an advertisement of "annual meeting of Presbyterian Church, to be held in school house. The accounts ot money received and expended in building school house will be produced." In 1820 a letter askings for tlie services of Rev.Thos.Creen, who —27— had preached for them a few weeks and with whom they were pleased. At a maetiii^ in the school house, held 1821, "Resolved to put themselves under the Presbytery." Here follow '^iofnatures aii-lsLiiiii promised, s.idly diminished from those before the war. Ill 1821, Rev. Mr. Smart, of Broclcville, who was present, was appointed their Commissioner, on the 21st Dec. elders were nominated. Rev. John Burns presidinfj. Scarcely any records for 1822-23, but in 1824 is presented the former account of £l^^ 8.S. 6J.,with interest for twenty years, making the whole sum almost the amount, jQ\oo allowed by Government for loss of the church. ;^ioo haU been received and paid on this account. Some interesting items occur. Paid tor deed of church, jQ6 14s. 6d. ; passage to York and back, jQi ; detention there two days, los. There seems to have been no settlement of this account till lij^ when follows in small clear writing almost like copper-plate of W. D. Miller, "amount due the two persons named, ;^203 ; interest for gy. 42-3 m. from 1804 till the church was burnt." This is signed by James Muirhead, Robert Dickson, Wm. Clarke, perhaps as arbitrators, or who state this to be the decision of the majority of the trustees. . The wheels of state must have moved slowly, as this sum ;£^400 demandeJ in 1820 from the Government, awarded in 1824, was not paid for several years and then only in instalments of 10%, 25^, etc. In 1828, Rev. Mr. Fraser was engaged for two years and in 1829 a call was sent to the iresbytery of Glasgow offering ^150, and the Rev. Robt. McGill was sent out. Now come various interesting items bearing on the vexed questions of Clergy Reserves, status of Presbyterian minister, &c. Fancy a proud, dijjnified man like Dr. McGill coming from Scotland where he was a minister of the Established Church and finding that he was not allowed to perform the ceremony of marriage. Here are ex- tracts from the dignified and rather curt letter he writes. "Sir, — I understand it to be required by the law of the province that a minister in connection with the Established Church of Scotland .... must yet submit to request of the General Quarter Sessions authority to celebrate marriage, even among members of his own congregation . . . although I regard i-K-:-! W '■:• :K.^ I I ■ —28— this law as an infrinjTfement of those rij^hts secured to the Estab- lished C'uirch of Scotland by acts ot the Imperial Parliament of Great Brit-un . . , it seems expedient that I should coiitorm to it, until that church to which I helonj^ shall procure its ab- ro^i-ation as an ilie^-al violation of its rig-hts. I request, theretore, that vou will i^-ive notice to all concerned that I intend . . ." Alsoin thisconnection com^sacopy of certificate to tlie Governor's o!Tice,York, for the share of nuney alloted by Her Majesty's Gov- ernment for support ot ministers of Church of Scotland*. In 1830, subscriptions for a new church, this is seventeen years after the town was burnt, they havin' » , -J. Sm / u ^ Mi ^ ^^^^^Bi^ ' x^ri^S^^I #j i --"'^ r ^ 1 ^ . -fi ,4 • if Hr^'S^^^^^i^B^^l^^^KlS ii( "X ' ' ^ ' mm Kiv. H. Mc'(iill, I).I>. .-V' IB' ? ; ^^^■'-' • nV^^^^B ' - 1. ■'«.' " * r ■.-i ■ '-..J. i '.' i • '' ' - ' ' V . I ,Jl Ro —29— wir.Is of the petition to Sir. John Colborne showing- the national cli;iracteristics of this people, a stern determination to have their constitutional rights and to gain them not by violence but by constitutional means The petition goes on to state that "they feel jiggrieved by an act of the Lieutenant Governor, establishing ;i rectory by which their rights are infringed and which is incom- patible with privileges granted by the Treaty of Union between Kngland and Scotland, privileges belonging inalienably in a British colonv to subjects of Scotland as well as subjects of England." T'le institution of the rectory it is said "recognizes the incumbent as sole spiritual instructor of all residing within its bounds and p!a'.-e'< tlieni in same relation to the Establishment as Dissenters of England are to church established there." To this are signed 128 names, ot those the only ones now known to be living are A. C. Ciirrie, VVm. Barr, fas. McFarland. Annual meeting 6ih I'ebruary, 1838, we have a glimpse ot the Rebellion, "as meeting was unavoidably deferred on account of (lixtin lieil state of country 'Vom late insurrectionary movement, an.l piratical invasion from frontiers of U.S., the members being enga^'od in military duty." In 1838 comes the appointment of Jno. Rollers as Treasurer, which position he held till his death in 1883, almost 46 years. It may be noticed that while there have been only three incumbents in St, Mark's, and in St. Andrews, so many changes, the latter church had the advantage of three faithful officers who term of office reaches almost to a century. In 1839, in acknowledgment of sacrifice made by Rev. R. McGill remaining in Niagara instead of accepting a call to Glas- gow, a subscription to raise the sum of ;^300 as a New Year's ;,mI'i from his cons.',reg ition. In 1840, reference to school kept by jas. Webster in school room under control ot church, in I842 called St. Andrew's Church School, and to avail themselves of Act passed in Parliament in regard to common schools. A paper bearing on the subject of Clergy Reserves came into my hands some years ago which I copied. Singularly enough it is not found in this book, as a parchment copy was kept. It is a peti- tion to tiie Queen in 1842, that, "in consequence of mistakes made in the cen'^us of 1839, members of PresbyterianChurch were « ■«•./■• .' V i' '>■■■■ >.'. li'-'' ■ I I I ■II MS I mi -30— imdcrnifeil in seltkMiiont of Clerj;-y reserves in 1S40, and that relief be j^'^ranled tor tliis wrong." It is sij^^ned only by heads ol families, 142 names, i^iving- number in each family, making 628 allogelher. This was in the palmy days of Niagara, when ilie church was crowded above and below ; in 1844 only one seat aiul two half seats were not taken, during ship-building at the dock. Of the names signed to this petition only one person is now iiviiiir Mexander R. Christie, Toronto. ;\ legacy oi' ^,7^0 was left by John Young to the church and a St. t '..ent is made that part of it is invested in Montreal Harbor LoiP ^ " . Mr. McGill reports that he has received ;^^2 los. in interest for the balance which by condition of the will he could use lor himself but minutes go on to say, that he generously allows to church. The only lablet in St. Andrew's is in the southern vestibule, readmg thus : — ".Sacred to the memory of John Young. Ksq., long a merchant in Niagara, returning home in pain anti infirmity he was drowned in Lake Ontaiio, where bis body lests awniiing the hour when the sea shall gi\e up her dead, In his last illness concerned for the spiritual wellare of cominu- generations he ordained a bequest for the perpetual maintenance ofdivin*^ ordinances in this church. He met dealh July 29th,i It:' m-l - 32 - Since \\ritii\u'' tlii? above, two c-onteninals have been held in the town, tJKitotS!. lark's held cjlh, loth, and nth of July, uSy,^ . and that of Si. A.i.iiew's, held uSlh, 19th and 20th of AiitriM, iS.)|, ill e ich ci-iw' I lie meeting's bain,;;- lai'i^-ely attended, espe.i illy by ihe descendants ot the members of tliese churches a coiUmy aj^o, lliey often liavins; come loni,' distances. In St. Mark's a hmss tablet was unveiled with the follewint,'- inscription ; — " Tvi tliJ Glory of God. Tliis tablet is creeled by the coii^^^re- i^ation of St. .\1 irk's church in i^-ratel'ul commemoration of ihe I ootii an. ii\'er-iai-y of the fvMin latioii of this parish, on the gtli of July 1793. Tiie nave of the church was built about 1807, and barned dariii^- tli.; w.ir M' 1H12, the waMs only remainiivj:. It \v;is restored 1S20, an I ealar^'-e.l to the pre-ient dimension-; in 1S43, Daring- the century the li\-ini;- has been held i)y tli- tollowini; incumbents: Tlie Rev Robert Addison 179210 1829; the Rev. Thomas Creen 182910 1837; the Rev. VVm. Mc.Muiray, D.D. D.C. I.., Archdeacon of Nia^-ara, to t!ie present lime, nssisted since 1888 b\ the Rev. J. C. Garrett as curate." In consullini; the arc'iives of Canada several items have been found ilefinitely fixing the date pretty conclusively of the buiklinj; of St. iMark's.Tlie evidence at least is of a nei^ative nature shewini,' that St. Mark's could not have been built before 1S02. A siiin of money had been i^ranted from Eiii^land and a letter I'\biiiarv 24th, I797» from Peter Russell to Lord Portland asks leave to have churches buih at Newark, York, Cornwall, there bcinj,' already one at Kiui^ston. On Sept. iitli, in a letter from Lord Portland to Peter Russel, ;(^S^'>o has been j^ranted. Feb. 20111,1798, no part of the money appropriated had been applied foi- and re- commends that subscriptions be raised by inhabitants, sites cliosen and church wardens elected. In 1802 money is apportioned to Sandwich ;^,'2oo, Niag-ara, ;^'ioo, \'ork ;^300, Cornwall ;£^200. In the places mentioned the people are building, or prepanng to build, and are applying for tiieir proportions. Mrs. Simcoc writes 26th July, 1792, "there is no chuich here, met for service in Free Mason's Hall where divine service is performed on Sunday." Many ot the inscripiions are rt rs.u'kable for their bold flij^'^Iits of fancy ; the exigencies ot rhyme, rhythm and syntax are boldly in the ptVi:i||v ■I Imjiss D.D. 'Oil boldiv ;i'v. Thos. Crri'ii —33— met ;uid conquered. A few examples may be given. Over the Trumpeter H. M, Royal Artillery's Division, "Here Ilea within this silent grave A Royal Soldier brisk and brave, Who suddenly wan snatched away, From off this Hodden foot of clay." Another dated i8o2 : "80 weep not, drie up your tears ; Hoare must i lie till Christ Apears." No faint praise is this : "Here lies as much virtue as could live." Another : — "Filial affection stronger than the grave, From Times' obliterS^ting hand to save ; Erects this humble monument of stone Over a father's and a mother's bones." How different from the simple name and age of the present time or the few appropriate words on monuments lately erected here. "The memory of a life nobly rendered is immortal ;" Or "Laid here in faith, hope and love all that is mortal of—" Of St. Andrew's too, some later information may be given. The centennial celebration held on Aug i8th, 19th, 20th, was well attend- ed, the Premier of the province, now the Lieutenant Governor, Sir Oliver Mowat, was present and made an address, which sup- plied many links in the history of the church while the Hon. Beverley Robinson the late Lieut. Governor, followed in a short pithy speech. A tablet was unveiled by Rev. Prof. Mowat, a former pastor, having the following inscription : — 1794—1894. "In grateful commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the organization of this congregation, this tablet is erected by the members of St. Andrew's Church, Niagara. The first building begun in October 1794 and erected on this spot was burnt in the war of 181 2— 14. The congregation met in St. Andrew's school room on the north corner of this block, for some years. The present church was built in 183 1. The ministers have been: n ■ [••'A •t, irj -34- Rev. John Dun, Rev. John Younjj, Rev. John Burns, Rev. Thus. Fraser, Rev. R,)!vMt MoGill, 13 D., Rev. Charles Campbell, Rev. William ClelanJ, Rev. J. W. Bell, M. A., and the present pastor Rev. N. Smith." In the graveyard too as in that of St. Mark's may be found the names of manv of the U. K. Loyalists and of soldiers who fon«(lu here, as Donald McDonald of the 93rd Hi^'hlanders etc. Here also was buried in 1833 John Oooks, the Superintendent of the fust Sunday School in the town. A small tablet inserted in the north wall of the church has the words, "The Minister's Bury- inj^ Place". Is it not strange that in all se hundred years no minister of the church died here so thr.. for an infant of a day this square is unoccupied. * In the Archives of Canada for the year 1891 is a letter dated Newark, Oct. I2lh, 1792, from Richard Cartwrijjfht. asking for assistance to Church of England in Kastern district and goes on to say that "The Scotcli Presbyterians who are pretty numerous here, and to which sect the most respectable part i^f the inhabi- tants belong, have built a meeting house and raised a subscription for a minister of their own who is shortly expected among them." This shows that some sort of building had been erected before that started in 1794. Of these two historic churches the words of George McDonald in the Sea Board Parish may be appropriately quoted. "And when I saw it I rejoiced to think that I was fav- ored with a church that had a history — one in which the hopes and fears, the cares and consolations, the loves and desires of our forefathers should have been roofed — Therefore I would far rather when I may, worship in an old church, whose very stones are a history of how men strove to realize the Infinite, compelling even the powers of nature into the task." Locust Grove. The residence of Mrs. J. W. Ball. By CHAS. A. F. BALL. The families of Bahl o Ball and Mann intermarried; all or a portion of either or both emigrated from Heidelberg^, Ciernviiiy, to Bloficld, in the County of Norfolk, Eng-land. In the year 1690 during the reig^n of William and Mary some members of the Ba. tarnily, purchased from the Crown, lands in tlie Mohawk Valley at one york shilling per acre, emigrated to America and settled there. liithe Revolutionary War, the family remained loyal to the Miitish Crown, and Jacob (the tather) with his sons, Peter, Jacob and Jolin, came to Canada in 1782 and engaged in the war on the side of Great Britain in Butler's and Queen's Rangers. Jacob (the fatlier), who was a Captain, was followed to Canada by the greater pari of his company, who joined with him in the cause of the Crown. (Jeorge, the youngest son, with the temale portion of the family came to Canada in 1784. Lands were granted by the Crown in the townships of Louth and Niagara : — the family settled on the latter, about two miles from Niagara. George, the youngest son, went to the township of Louth, on the Twenty Mile Creek, that part afterwards known as Ball's Mills, where he erected a grist mill, saw mill, woolen mill, cooper shop and general store : — These were largely utilized by the Military in the war of 181 2 — a portion of a British Regiment being stationed there for a considerable time to guard the mill and other property, whence a very considerable portion of their supplies was received. During the war of 1812, the home on the Niagara property was burned by the enemy, grandmother being driven out and i ■fN'» m •n I r 'is .;1 -36— only allowed to take a small bundle in her hand. The house, about 70 feet in lenijth, was c:ompletely destroyed and with it a quantity of valuables sent there for safe keeking. In i8i8 John built the house seen tc the right of the picture and in 1820 Georj>-e built.a lari,'-e brick house, that which appears in tht^ eii^'iav- inyf, on the Niajj^ara homestead and in 1821 removed there from Louth with his family and continued to reside there till his death which occurred in February 1854. Willi reference to the aforementioned British reg"ular troops at Ball's mills, there were two companies ot the (104th I believe) under command of Captains Brock and Vavasour — Captain Brock was a nephew of General Sir Isaac Brock. The General's hat which was received after the death of the General, was pre- sented by his nephew. Capt. Brock, to my father ieorg-e Ball. Capt. Brock's wife was with him at the Twenty. The tollowing' lines written on the balcony of liio old house, (apparently in red chilk) w.is distinctly le.^^iblc for many years after ; — "The blesHJng of (iod atteiul this Ikuisi' For till' kindness tlu'v hivv(^ shown To tlu' 104th wlu'u stationed here, The country to defenil." (The fores^'^oini^- memorandum was written by Chas. A F. Ball, young'est son of Gcnao^e Ball.) In addition to the above it may he said that oi the 1000 acres o-ranted to the tamily in Niai,'ara township over a Innulred years aj^o, that 750 acres are still m the possession of the laniily, unlike many families who now own none of the land so i^ranled, and throuj^h the len<;th ■ind breadth of Canada are fouiul descend- ants of Jacob Ball, • i ose name appears in the list of Butler's Ranj^ers. In the Historical Room is the ori^^inal Muster Roll of one company of tliis celebrated rej^-iment dated Niaj^ara 1782, It is headed Lieut. Col. John Butler, Capt. Peter Len Broeck, I.St Lieut. Jacob Ball, Muster roll for 218 days from 30th Sept. 1782 to gth April 1783 and contains the names o\' fifty privates three sergeants, three corporals, two drummers, with interesting 37 remarks as ''on command to Oiwei^'o or Detroit", ^^Oi^ I")uty", "Prisoners of War" etc Capt. Ten Mrt>eclc resigned in January 1783 and Jacob Ball mist then hive become Captain. Many well known names of LI. K. Loyalists occur as Fields, Showers, McMicken, Ca.ssaday, Vrooman, Clendennan, etc. In a census taken oy Col. Jno. M.itler in 1782 of the settle- ment at Niagara the name Hall does not occur hut in that of i-jSt, |acob Ball is mentioned with 11 acres cleared and Peter Ball 5 a(.r«s while others who had come earlier have in some cases 50 acres cleared. In the f.imily buryinj,*^ ground are inscriptions to Jacob Ball anil his' three sons, Peler, John and Georj^e. while in the old biiryinj^ j^^round at Homer may he seen a larj^^e raised tomb to the other son Jacob Hall. It is remembered (hat all the older family spoke German as well as ICn^lish and also the elder chikiren . • In many documents the name is honorably mcniioned. In the niipers of 1847 as showintj- tlie extended trade of (his district, and ot Ball's Mills referred to before, in the disbursements of money raised to reheve the distress in Ireland, is the item ot 500 bands IliHir purchased from Ci. 1'. M. Hall, Louih, (the son ot Georj;-e Hall) from Hall's .\Iills lo send to Irelanti, a.id in the list of con- tributors to allay the v.'ant and sutTerini,'' caused by the famine the name of Cieor^e Hall, Louth, as y^ivinj^- 16 barrels of flour. There also appear the names of Win. M. Hall and John Ball ainonjf the contributors. Besides this, sliewiiiij;^ the liberality of |he family in all good works, on the list of liie members ot the liiiiL' Society yi'ivini;" $50 at oi\e time, are found the names ot Jno. W. Hall, Mar^^aret Hall, Mrs. J. W. Hail, and others. In the lilt of (iramm.ir School Trustees, Maj^'^ist rate-, and other ollicials the name Hall frequently occurs and in St. Mark's Centennial \v>lunie is a portrait of John W. Hall, wlio foi- fifty ye.irs was an (iiruor vM the church as S. S. .teacher, C'luirch Warden, or other oiliiial capacity. Mrs. Roe and Mr. C. A. F. Hall who are Hon. Vice-Presi- dents of our Historical Society ire the onlv survivors of the eleven children of t lie Geor^j-c Hall lelVMred to above. I"J>. J. C. )i' '. 1^ II m'\ •:][ s: i I i jf^ V'^:5>v;;- vt -I .jf>' "<- valuables for safe keepiuij till the house could hold no more, when the sky was lit up with the con- flao^ralion of the town, for the lighthouse on the- Canadian side useful to both east and west and the Lij^hthouse Keeper's house as well, were spared. It is believed that the present tower was Iniilt shortly after on the spot where the lij^hthouse stood, it beinjj taken down, as a li}4^ht was put on the top of the present old castle at Fort Niaijara shortly after ; the present lii^hthouse havinj,^ been built about 1875 and the li^ht remm'ed froin the old castle of 1748. An outline sketch of some of the buiidinijs taken by Cien Seaton Gordon in 1824 and shewiu}^ the fl:ij;,'statT, is in possession of our Society and in Lossinj^'s History of the war of 1812 is a sketch taken by him in i860 of the various buildings here then, some oi' them ot log. none of which are now to be seen, for it was dismantled in 1870, and the. cannons removed and for several years the buildings lay open and uncared for, even the wood work of the tower being destroyed by fire. The remams of the palisades which surrounded the fort may yet be seen but must soon disappear from the sapping ot Ontario's ce.iselcss waves. For manv vcars the fort and the buildings within the en- cK)sinc were occupied by British soldiers. Lately a roof has been put on with whnt is certainly an olTenco to the eye, instead of the flat roof to which so many climbed to inspect the cannon, lias been placed there a cottage roof with dormer windows. A f.irl with a cottage roof and dormer winilows ! The iconoclasts ol the present have thus destroyed all resemblance to a fort. The walls it is believed were built from the bricks brought friMii the ruins of the town, the broken bricks showing quite ! :; m-i u Si 4' 1 ■-.'I'll ? I l\ Hi- • f 1 i ' '■ '■- V ; '; ^ ' ■ \ - I' 4, 4 . A t » li .'■ J ; >l;iiiil the -40- V, the walls are at least I'lve loot thioU, as luav he soon in \oo\ hoi es. A letter I'.as lateh come to ii«rlit telliiu-- of tlie citnstriiction of the fiirl. 'I'he letter is tlaleJ "Hope Cotiai,'e Fort Geori.'-e, Dee. 1814" fuMU Mrs. )eii(M\av to tiie efleet llial lur luishaiid of the i st Hall. !\i\\ai .Seots had Cv^nsl riutet.1 toriirioitioiis at (Jueoiiston. Ho lias the entire eoniniand ot the l^ni^iiuiMs Depot at l'"orl Mississaj^ua and I'ort Geor;.;o. Tlie t'orinor is ;i 1 1 o w (\-.l win oh hi ad the (.liroo! ion ol' ;it ih e oonunoiioo- moiit. the slu)!e landed I ho eneniv, st retoliin^j- to Cro iU\- s!. 11 lunv Ch;'nt;uu|iia and here o\\ the rnor'iini,'' after tlio haillo l.iy in a sniall spaoc throe hundred ('oai.1. The lale Mr. R. N. Hall tdivi the writer th.it in a Iolt ;k)> then slandinif, the ll.nn- w 1^ sunnnini^' \\ilh hlood troni the \\o;indod oariieJ \n It .stran<»e tliat of all thai nuniher ue onl\ know the names ami :rav -•i li\e. In ll.o i)id i-i in i \ ai il at llonui is a stone to tltiM: (irass who was Uillod at the hattlo t^l l*\ut Cioortie, M.iv 1S13, and in iho \eslihulo at the north dv>v)r of Sf Mark's tablet to Capt. .Martin McLellan. Clias. Wrii-'it, \\ III. -'7lh. IS au roil and .\(.ijt. Lloyd interred in the i^raveyard. Lately .it Chantaiuiu.i in ciectiiiir a windmill the sliis ot lour soldier wore iiiioaitli- id, tioin the buttons it is corlain tlioy wen- Ihitish, the hoias it these heroes of the past were roplaoed, and it is hoped Mimo mark, howevei slii^ht, may )el he put thoie to mark the spot. Out poet, Wm. Kirhy, m his C'anadian Id\lls has thus iks- II iln d the fort ; '■|t.'^ wnlls tliiik;isa Iciidal kt'cp with liMipiidlc.'^ skisin-il, ('iiiit::iii till- ui'cok and ruin ol the town. Tin' ruins u| its wiills and hearths wcrr liitii lliis stt-iii iiicuioriiil III :i And riiehivainiiis in diiys id war jfuiif liv.' hiiill It IS hoped th It as the Hist. irioal Sooioli OS this loi t as well as I'cti t Cioorjre and I*'ort ICiit liave niav roi] uos toil he plaoec like Brink's monument in the hands of the Niai^ara I-'alK Park Commissioners so that these spots maile saored by the blooil ol patriots may be protooted. preserved, made beaut ilul so that instead of feelin:^ the blush of shame at seeiiiLT the ne>rlect of —u~ II points of historic interest \vc may point with pride to these spots where our forefathers held not their lives dear it' they might keep the soil a sacred heritaj^e for iheir children. Tlie following' sonnet by the present writer when the fort was almost in ruins appeared in the Toronto Week : "Deserti'd, drear, and mouid(Ming to decay, A square low tower stands grim and gray and lone From Newark's ruins built, its walls storm blown, When sword and flame alternat(^ seized their prey. Ontario's waves in rage or idle play Sap palisade and fort with ceaseless moan, Shall we historic relics see o'erthrown, And not a voice be raised to answer nay? Four nations here for empire sternly fought, And brightly gleamed the red man's council fire, The beacon lights the dancing wave and lea. Where Brave I^a Salle both fame and fortune sought. In fratricidal strife fell son and sire. Where friends stretch hands across a narrow sea." •i, •■ 3. ft. Norr: ro criN rriMNiAL ix^^da. [In the third canto, beginning with the ninth line, reference is ntade to two veiienible, retired clergymen. Canon Arnold, late rector of Fort I'-rie, and I'dctor Ker, for years tlu^ chureii's devoted and IxMoved missionarv to (liwpe. The former, nearly ninety years of hge, and some ten years older tliiui Dr. Ker, was hale and heart y; the latter, less active and, in fact, {jrowii feeble, found it nmch less easy to get about. This gave Canon Anmld the opi)ortunily of taking tli ■ arm of his clerical brother and assist- ing liiiu in going to and returnnig from the table of the Lord. It was al- ways to the writer and others a ver\' affecting sight.] Jno. (-. fJAimhrrr. I Ncivij Hall. A loiiij low iiiiikliiii^, now !o our shaine he it said, usi>d as a stable, facinj;" the liver, not far lOin what was called Kins^^'s Wharf, marked as siieh in i^ld maps of the town is all that now remains of the four buildinj^s called Navy Hall in 1788, one of whicli was cleared out. the sails, cordai^e and other na\al stores bein>;^ remo\ed when Gov. Simcoe arrived in Newark in 179-!, no other buildinj,'' beinj,'^ available as a residence. In the .\rchives of Canada is ,t;iven the list of expenses incurred in futinj^ up the buildintf for the use oi' His I'^xcellency, Col. Simcoe, boartls, shin^;les, lath, paint, j^'-lass, putty, nails, sashes, locks and hiii<^es altoi^ether the modest sum of ;£,'i 16 5s, It is mentioned that some of the buiklin^'-s weie erected in the course ot the last w,u- (meaninj;- 1775 to 1783) for naval officers but in time o\' poace repairs were nej^lected. '1 he map oi Mr. Chewett in 1804 shnvs four buildinj^s, tne ot these a lon|4' structure at rii^ht ar,<4k'> 10 tliC river and throe others parallel with the river. The I")uko uo la Roche I-'ancauld-Liancouri, who visited Governor .Simcoe in 1795, descrilied the house occupied by the Ciovernor a.-: "a sni.ill miserable wooden house which was formerly occupied by trie Con'.missaries.' Mrs. Simcoe who was somethinj;" of an artist made a slalch of Navy Mall in 1794 trom the dock of a sloop at the moiiili of the river, showiii','- a lonuj buildinj,'- parallel to, and anollicr at rij^ht anj^les to the ri\er. Some lithcule the iilea that the lonj^ low buildinj;^ at present standinj^ in the lower part of Kort George enclosure can be one oi the orij^inal buildinj^^s of Navy H;lll, but so far the fact has never been disproved and much evidence of a corroborative nature can be adduced. It must be remembered that the buildiiii,'- does not stanii where it orij^inally diil, as .s.ime years aj^o when the late 43— VV. A- Thomson made a cuttini^- throui^-h the oak g;rove with the idef ot liavlnuf the train of the M. C. R. land near the Kinj^-'s Wharf instead of .» 44 Henry, the Liyht House Keeper,) wlio was born here In 1804 and lived here till 1831, in her frequent visits to the town, cros- sing from Yountjstown always said to her children when passint' this buildinj^^ "that is the old Parlininent House". Mr. John Alma a wholesale merchant of the town, and who came here in 1830, stored his g-oods in this building which was then called Navy Hall, this on the authority of Mrs. Colquhum. All these tacts point to the belief that this old house is one of the orij»-inal buildings which formed Navy Hall. Here were entertained H. R. H. the Duke of Kent and here on the 4th June 1793, His Majesty's birthday Gov. Simcoe held a levee. Many of the letters of Sir Isaac Brock are dated from Navy Hall and constantly in the Archives of Canada during- these early years we find State papers written from or directed to Navy Hall, Niagara. In the issue of Upper Canada Gazette tor May 30th, 1793, the expression is used "Council Chamber, Navy Hall" Niagara, shewing that part of the work of the early legislators was done here. Should not then some steps be taken to protect this old building ? 1..1 Loouf^t ( irow, Kt'siclciu't' of Mrs. .1. W. Hall. Navv Hall. i.-«» 4 The p or.)han ( and Cm linise. lor mail llio Red 1795 fvM Clench, and CiH 1S12, ll 400 piis b.illle I'ort > were si' In biiildin; Si. Ha ailverli of Niai. Coiirtli stone, square^ saiuo 1 In trials t 1819R in a p: the tri the roi Jail and Court House. The present Western Home which was occupied bj' Miss Rye's or.)han chililren for twenty-five years was built in 1817 as a Jail aiul Court House and is well entitled to be called an historic h )iise. The first Jail of the town was situated on the spoj; known l,tr miiiiy years as Graham's Hotel, the Hlack Swan opposite iho Rectory and the Masonic Hall, and an advertisement, Newark 1795 for nails for the use of Jail and Courthouse, sijjned Ralfe lleiich. Superintendent of Public Buildings, shows how early a Jail and Courthouse were necessary. We read that durinj>^ the war of 1S12, there were confined in it and the Block House at one time 4()0|irisoneis, many of them for disloyalty and on the day of the hiltie oi Queenston Heij^hts, there beinj^ a brisk cannonade from I'ort Niaj^^aia on the town and fort, the Jail and Courthouse were soon wrapt in Hames from hot shell. In the Niajj^ara Gleaner 18 18 there is a reference to the biiildinj^ of the jail "in that swamp" and in the Spectator of St. Davids, 1 8 16, published by Richard Cockrell, there in an iidvertisement signed by Ralte Clench, Clerk of the Peace, District ofNiai^ara, "for the materials required for building the Jail and Courthouse to be delivered between ist June and 13th July, 50 toises stone, 330 bbls. lime, 200 thousand brick, 20 thousand shing-les, sqii.ired t'mber 12x14 of oak and 20,000 feet of pine lumber," the same Ralle Clench advertisinsj;- for Jail and Court House in 1795. In this buildiuf^, now nearly a century old, many remarkable trials took place and many noted persons were prisoners here. In 1819 Robert Gourlay whose trial is so graphically described by Dent in a passage rivalling the celebrated description by Macauiay of the trial of Warren Hastings, giving a striking word picture of the room, the judge, counsel, prisoner, witnesses, so that the 5; ■■ 4 :f' -46- I n .\ . scene staiKls vividly before vis. Here m.vv vet be seen in ihe di^milorv ol these waifs and stravs from liie mother laml coniino to our far stretching'- country, above the wiile staircase tlio ^'M- \er\ for spectators but ot course many chanj^'es have been maile since 1870 when it was bon^'lit for tiiis phihnilhropic oltject. Our present C\nirtlunise was built in 1847 and the huiklinjr of 1817 was only used as a jail till St. Catharines becinie ijie County Town in 1862 and a jail was built there in i8()4. Il^e cruel and harsh treatment ot Robert Gourlay and the imprison- ment of a Niaj^ara eilitor for publishini,'- i'tne oi his letters, tlie imprisonment accompanieil with a lieavy tine and standing,' in the pillory seems to us in these days a perversion of justice not easily imderstood. Hut these were also the days when han«,Mn«,' was punishment for thett as shewn by a notice in the news^Mper of 1826. ''David Sprinj^^field convicted ot sheep stealinj^^, sentenced fo be hanj^ed ; Hen (ireen stole 10s. sentenced to imprisonment and 30 lashes; Oct. aiJth, 1826 y^reat disappointment, i,neai num- bers, many from the United States came into town to see three men hun^- but His Excellency had suspended the sentence. \ wag-^n load of cakes and {^'inj^^er bread had to be sold .it reducoil rates. "The minj^linj^-of the horrible and the j.^rotesqiie, th.c desire of the crowds to see the j^-ruesome sij^Mit and appeasing- lb '1 luin},a'r with cakes and j^'inj.jerbread, is a sad picture > os. In Sept. 1826 Wm. Corbin and .A. Ciraves se"' •>(>■' ed each for stealiiif^ a horse. In 1837 occurred tlu ..ok., >la' v scue which reads to us like a romance too stranj^ 10 be ti ,ie. .\ sla\e Moseby wlio had escaped from Kentuiky was follou I by human blood- hounds and claimed as ^''uilty of stealini; his master's horse 'o e -cape. While awaiting' the decision ot the court he was co' i- e I in the Niaj^ara jail and when finally an order was j^'iven f is return to slavery, a j^atherintf ot several hundred blacks wai od llie jail day and ni^ht for two weeks to prevent his beinj; ^ en up. Finally the slave escaped Kut two of the leaders were shot, toe military bein^ called out, the Riot Act read etc. The people of the town {generally sympathized with the slave and those who made such efforts to save him from leturn to bondaj.je. Here too we read of men bein^ imprisoned for debt, a letter -47— in a p;ipei" of 1H32 referrin); to a charitable lady, Mrs. Stevenson, soiidiiif; conit'orts to the prisoners, and the Post Master. Jolin Crook:;, sondinj,'^ wood in winter to allay the sufferings from cold. In later days several prisoners were confined here for their shiio in Oie Kenian Raid o( 1866. A picture of the jail as it was may be seen in pamphlet No. 2 o( our Society and anolhei as it is, and the story of the Slave Res- cue. I'Vom the appearance now of beautiful flowers, j^racetul trees iiiid shrubs, one could never imaj^ine that the unmitij^'ated uj^fliness iM the lirsl picture could '"^e transformed into such a scene of heaiiiy as may now be seen. Durinj^ the twenty-five years of its histi^ry as Our Western llomt 4000 j^^irls have been sent out from ii«» walls, most of whom have become j^j^ood citizens, rescued from the ovcr-crowiled life of |{n}^li<-h cities. '■■- M/' wmm The Trench Couiit'5 IIollsc. For by this name was kiunvn the re: idence ot Count ile Puisaye, a French reliij^eo in the lime oi' the l*'roiich Revolnlion, who formed the idea of hrinj^inj^'- out from Kntjianil lo a plmc i>f refu}^e in that rcij^n of terror a number of !• renchmen to foini a colony. rhefnsl appropriation of land was in the cinuily ot York but the Count ile Puisaye e«me \o XewaiU and pureliased hind in 1798;. bout tluee miles from Niaj^ara, built a stone house in the French st\L', part ol which still remains. Qnetton St. (icor^je, whose iiame was familiar bolii in Queenston and York was one ol the (."olony. Most of the orij^inal builJinj;" has beer- taken down but till last summer mij^hl still be seen a lont^ low narrow buikl- int^ which iiirmed part ^.A' the lirst edifice. .A frienil took a kodak view last siinniier lor reproduction in our paj^es but alas, it was found that just previous lo the takinjjf of the picture the' house had been modernized so as not to be recognized. Many stories are told of the Count who was a French nobleman of courtiv manners, a i^enlleman of the old sclu^ol of politeness,— also oi one room which seeirieil 10 the asiitnished visitor of those days huns,' with mirrors, of the biick arch still standin*.,'-, of the fish pitnds,— - oi the powiler maj^^azines and wine cellar. In the war like many other houses the Chateau \\ is useil as a hospital. The Count sl,i>od \\o\ mans years and the scheme of a French Royalist settlement was aliamloned, the Count returniiu,'^ to l^nj^land, where he died in iS-'j, but for many years the ^^iiliil bu!ldin«; remained a memorial of the noblt? h'reni-h Rovalist ;iimI even yet, a century later, part of it may be found stronj,' and cndurinj.^. He is mentioned by Carlvie, Lamartine and Thiers and we find the name in lands j^ranled to I'Vencn emijures at Markham and on one of the letters of .Surveyor Jones, the improvements at Oak Ridges are mentioneil as Puisajife's Town. . r^ I MK Historic;!! Room is open every Siiturday afternoon from Tiie pamphlets issued by our society are : N^i. I. Tiikir.j^' of Fort Geori^^e, wiili illustration of Niaj^ara River, 27tli May, 1S13, by Col. ('ruickshank. 20 cts. (The edition is now exhausted.) No 2. (With three illustrations.) Centennial poem by Mrs. Ciirzon ; Fort Nia_i,^ara, by Canon Hull ; Slave Rescue in Niiij^ara, 1837, by Miss Carnochan. 20 cts. No. 3. Blockade ot Fort Georj^e, by Col. Cruikshank with illustration of Niai^ara, 1806, 25 cts. No. 4 — Memmorial to United Fmpire Loyalists, by Jas. M. Coyne; History tiui^iit by Museums, by Davitl Boyle ; Battle of Queen- ston Hei,i,'hts. by Hon. J, G. Currie ; Monuments, by Janet Carnochan. 20 cts, N'>. 5 — Iv.Minjii by Rev. Robt. .Adilison ; History of Mrs. Jean llipiisle RousN..>aux, by .Alexander Servos ; Historic Houses by .Alox uidcr .Sei vos, Charles Tai^i^-art, Jessie McKenzie ; Palatine H:il aiid ICvi)hition o[' an llistoiical Room, by Janet Carno- il'.iiM. 20 cts. No. 6--Niai;ara Library, 1800 to 1820, ICarly Schools of Nia},^'lra, hy Janet Carnochan. 20 cts. No. 7 — The present issue. 20 cts.