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 PREFATORY NOTE

The object of this publication is to preserve an account of the Celebration, at Queenston Heights, of the Brock Centenary, in a more convenient and permanent form than that afforded by the reports (admirable as they are) in the local newspapers.

Celebrations were held in several places in On- tario, notably at St. Thomas, where Dr. J. H. Coyne delivered a fervently patriotic address. Had re- ports of these been available, extended reference would have been gladly and properly accorded to them in this book. Considerable effort, involving delay in publication, was made to secure the name of every person who attended at Queenston Heights in a representative capacity, and the list is prob- ably complete.

For valuable assistance acknowledgment is due to Colonel Ryerson, Chairman of the General and Executive Committees; to Miss Helen M. Merrill, Honorary Secretary, and to Mr. Angus Claude Mac- donell., K.C., M.P., Toronto; to Miss Mary Agnes FitzGibbon and Sara Mickle, for their kind permis- sion in allowing the use of the rare picture of General Brock, on the original of which they hold the copyright; to Mr. Walter E. Nursey, for the use of the pictures of General Brock, Col. Mac- donell, and Brock's Monument, from his interesting work: "The Story of Brock," in the Canadian Heroes Series; and to the Ontario Archives, To- ronto, for the use of the picture of the first monu- ment erected to Brock on Queenston Heights.

Alexander Fraser.

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