The visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to America; reprinted from the Lower Canada Journal of Education - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...roof of the Hon. Sydney Smith, Postmaster General, and started in the morning for the West by railroad. On the way His Royal Highness was shown Rice Lake, where he was received by the Mississaga Indians. Their chief, whose age is upwards of a hundred years, harangued the Prince and made him a present of many curious articles. Having met with a hearty and loyal reception at Peterboro and at Port Hope, the royal party again embarked on board the steamer Kingston and reached Toronto by 7 o'clock p. M. As the proceedings at Kingston and Belleville were by this time known throughout the Province, much anxiety was felt as to the result of the conference between the Orange Lodges and the municipal authorities of the old capital of Upper Canada. This city is the political centre of that part of the Western Province sometimes called the Peninsula; among its citizens are to be found men of the most adverse parties, and its press finds an echo in a hundred small journals issued in the other towns and villages. It is here also that the Grand Orange Lodge meets, and that the Grand Master, Mr. Hillyard Cameron resides. As it was said that the lodges of Kingston had acted in conformity to the advice of this gentleman, it was plain that the bearing of the Orangemen in their head-quarters would determine the nature of the relations between the people of Upper Canada and their future sovereign. When it became known that, on the 7th September, Toronto had given the Prince a most brilliant reception, a feeling of intense satisfaction prevailed in the public mind. A vast amphitheatre had been erected for this'occasion upon the esplanade near the wharf; poles supporting escutcheons, trophies and streamers were arranged in a semi-circular row on each side of the dais,...