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ompany. Ottawa Garrison Artillery (3rd Battery). Waterloo Infantry Company. Warwick Infantry Company. Amherst Island Infantry Company. Napanee Garrison Artillery. Port Hope Garrison Artillery. 10th Royals, Toronto (2 additional Companies). LOWER CANADA. Stanstead Infantry Company. Coaticooke Infantry Company. Ste. Hyacinthe Infantry Company. Sorel Infantry Company. Tingwick Infantry Company. Winslow Infantry Company, Clarenceville Infantry Company. Elgin Infantry Company. Longueuil Infantry Company. Boucherville Infantry Company. Vercheres Infantry Company. Abercorn Infantry Company. Huntingdon Infantry (3rd Company). St. Pie Infantry Company. Vaudreuil Infantry Company. St. Martine Infantry Company. St. Athanase Infantry Company. Beauharnois Infantry Company. Knowlton Infantry Company. Sutton Infantry Company. On the evening of the 2nd of June the whole of the Volunteer Force not already called out or enumerated in the above-mentioned lists, was placed on active service, and on Sunday, the 3rd of June, the Province had more than 20,000 men under arms, besides the numerous companies of Home Guards. The entire force turned out not only willingly, but eagerly, although at a season of the year when their business interests suffered greatly by their absence. It was enough for every militia man to know that the country needed his services, and personal interests were cheerfully sacrificed. Instances of devotion to Queen and country were general. Business matters were but a secondary consideration. Merchants and their clerks left their shops, students their colleges, professional men their offices, while factories were shut down and farmers left their ploughs in the furrows to take up their rifles to assist in the national defence. Those who were obliged by age or infirmities to stay at home were not idle, but nobly did their part in raising funds to assist the families of those bread-winners who had gone to serve on the frontier posts. All over the country large sums were raised for this purpose, and the patriotic Relief Committees were exceptionally busy attending to the proper distribution of food and supplies, both among the volunteers and the needy families who were depending upon them. In the order calling out the troops for active service the Governor-Genera
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