The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . ARRIVAL OF THE INFANTRY ON LIINDVS LANE OPPOSITE ANOTHER SECTION OF THE MILITARY PARADE ON LUNDYS LANE. COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES 39 plains. He believed this country would always remain amilitary colony, and his efforts were divided into cultivat-ing the military spirit among the comparatively few Britishsettlers, and placating the French, whose ancient laws andcustoms he succeeded very largely in restoring, by theImperial legislation of 1774. To conciliate the French, ifn
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . ARRIVAL OF THE INFANTRY ON LIINDVS LANE OPPOSITE ANOTHER SECTION OF THE MILITARY PARADE ON LUNDYS LANE. COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES 39 plains. He believed this country would always remain amilitary colony, and his efforts were divided into cultivat-ing the military spirit among the comparatively few Britishsettlers, and placating the French, whose ancient laws andcustoms he succeeded very largely in restoring, by theImperial legislation of 1774. To conciliate the French, ifnot carried too far, might be excellent policy; to restrict hisenergies to military interests in other parts of Canada was,of course, a proved mistake. Yet the latter view influencedand colored his regime, and after the close of the Revolu-tionary War helped to keep alive active antagonism to theUnited States. This was the real bone of contention be-tween himself and Governor Simcoe, whose ideas ofCanada were fundamentally different. Simcoe, from thebeginning, recognized the great possibilities that lay in thesoil, waters, and minerals of Upper Canada, in short, itsna
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