. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. â 109 â tliinuler: colonial grievances of three generations. Some hundreds of alert young French Canadian horsemen, neat in their home-spun coats, mounted on their Xor- man ponies and armed with their long duck-guns, sur- rounded the banquet tables festooned with maple leaves, and spread al fresco, with abundance of good rustic fare, but bereft of all dutiable wine and liquors. Tlw sparce French colony, forgotten a century previous on the shores of the St. Lawre
. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. â 109 â tliinuler: colonial grievances of three generations. Some hundreds of alert young French Canadian horsemen, neat in their home-spun coats, mounted on their Xor- man ponies and armed with their long duck-guns, sur- rounded the banquet tables festooned with maple leaves, and spread al fresco, with abundance of good rustic fare, but bereft of all dutiable wine and liquors. Tlw sparce French colony, forgotten a century previous on the shores of the St. Lawrence, had resolved to give a lesson to Old England, kill oif her export track', and thus (h'v u]) this source of mercantile ])rolitI There were unfriendly lips which whisjiered that tlie Bois de Boulogne reformers would have difficulty in kecjting u]) to fever-heat their jiatriotism on the national bever- age, spruce-beer. Tlie wearers of liome-spun were to receive important accessions to their ranks, l)y the arrival in the city of Quebec of the Montreal members of ])arliament, habited also in home-s])unâsays the historian of the period, Kobert Christieâfor the meeting of parliament, which took pLice on the ieces had cleared a\\ay, the dictator, accompanied by ])rominent patriotcs, Dr. (later Sir) E. 1*. Tacbi', Messrs. L(^4ourneau, Tetu, Vallde, and otliers, drove down in open carriages, to meet, at Kamouraska, other active sympathisers. The writer, an eye-witness, vividly recalls the whole scene (1). Four days ]irevious to this festival, on tlie 20tli June, 1837, tliere was lying cold in death, in his turreted castle, at Windsor, the late sovereign of tlu^ realm, King William IV. Fifty years ])revious, as Puke of Clarence, he had landed in our midst on the 14tli August, 1787, from the frigate Piydsus, a roistering midshijtman. The City still retained the ^i â â 'â 'iK-'l ^. â ;.. ^ r-r* (1) Vide Explorations of Jonathan Ohlhuck, i>i>. Please note t
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