on is contained in an
item appearing in the _Amherstburg Courier_ of March 10, 1849,
reporting a meeting of Negroes in Sandwich township to protest against
the Rebellion Losses Bill.[6] Colonel Prince was thanked for his
opposition to the measure.[7]

Eighty years after the rebellion the Negro men of Canada were again
called upon to fight, this time in another land and in a conflict that
was destined to affect every race and every land. The service that was
rendered in the Canadian army by the colored companies of pioneers
will some day receive due recognition at the hands of an historian. In
the meantime, it is not forgotten by the people of Canada.

FRED LANDON
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
LONDON, ONTARIO

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A convention of Hunter's Lodges of Ohio and Michigan, held at
Cleveland, September 16-22, 1838, was attended by seventy delegates.

[2] Head, Sir, F. B., _A Narrative_ (London, 1839), page 392.

[3] Loguen, J. W., _The Rev. J. W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman_
(Syracuse, 1859), pp. 343-345.

[4] _An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson_, "Uncle Tom," from
1789 to 1881 (London, Ont., 1881), page 177. A sketch of Josiah Henson
appeared in THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY for January, 1918 (Vol. III,
no. 1, pp. 1-21). This is condensed from his autobiography which
appeared in several editions.

[5] MacMullen, John, _History of Canada from its first Discovery to
the Present Times_ (Brockville, Ont., 1868), pp. 459-460. He gives as
his authority Radclift's despatch, "10th January, 1838."

[6] The Rebellion Losses Bill proposed compensation for those who had
sustained losses in Lower Canada (Quebec) during the troubles of 1837.
It was fiercely opposed in Upper Canada (Ontario) by the element that
regarded the French as "aliens" and "rebels." When Lord Elgin, the
Governor, gave his assent to the bill in 1849 there were riots in
Montreal in which the Parliament Buildings were burned.

[7] Col. Prince was one of the leaders in the defense of the Canadian
frontier along the Detroit River during 1838, afterwards a member of
the Canadian Parliament. During the troubles of 1838 he ordered the
shooting of four prisoners without the form of a trial. The act was
condemned by Lord Brougham and others with great severity and is one
dark spot on the records of the Canadian forces during the trying
period.

LOTT CARY,[1] THE COLONIZING MISSIONARY

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