A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time: A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers
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A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time: A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers
other churches in the province, and hopes while he has the power of
utterance to speak a word for the Master and for the edification of his
followers. Three of his children have been called from this world, and
three remain, viz., Rowan Robert, Q.C., stipendiary magistrate and
recorder of Charlottetown; Sidney David, chemist and druggist, now
residing at Kansas, U.S.; and Minnitt John, for many years connected
with the Union Bank of Charlottetown, now amalgamated with the Nova
Scotia bank of Halifax. Mr. Fitgerald’s religious views have undergone
no change. He is to-day what he was fifty years ago, an Evangelical
churchman. He has been a member of the L. O. A. since 1832, when he
became secretary to Calvin lodge, No. 1509, then established in Dublin.
In 1848 he joined the order of the Sons of Temperance, and is a member
of the National division. He has seen some service and undergone some
labour, and trusts that the years already past have not been spent in
vain.
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=Brock, Major-General Sir Isaac=, K.B., was the eighth son of John
Brock, and was born in the parish of St. Peter’s, Port Guernsey, on the
6th of October, 1769, the same year which gave birth to Napoleon and
Wellington. He entered the army as ensign in the 8th Regiment of
Infantry by purchase, on the 2nd of March, 1785. In 1790 he was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant, and at the close of the same year obtained
his captaincy and exchanged into the 49th regiment. In June, 1795, he
purchased his majority, and on the 25th of October, 1797, he was
gazetted lieutenant-colonel. In a little more than seven years he had
risen from the rank of ensign to that of lieutenant-colonel. He served
with his regiment in the expedition to Holland under Sir Ralph
Abercrombie in 1799. He greatly distinguished himself at the battle of
Egmont-of-Zee, where he was wounded. He was second in command of the
land forces in the celebrated attack on Copenhagen by Lord Nelson in
April, 1801. On its return from Copenhagen the 49th was stationed at
Colchester till the spring of 1802, when it was ordered to Canada, where
its distinguished commander earned the fame and performed the gallant
services which have so endeared his memory to the Canadian people. At
Fort George, shortly after his arrival in Canada, Brock quelled an
attempted mutiny with great firmness and tact. His regiment soon became
one of the most reliable in the service. In 1806 Brock succeeded to the
command of the troops in Canada, and took up his residence in Quebec. In
1811 Lieutenant-Governor Gore went to England on leave, and
Major-General Brock was appointed administrator of the government,—and
thus happened to be the civil as well as the military head of the
province of Upper Canada on the outbreak of the war with the United
States in 1812. He at once threw himself with great vigour, and with the
full force of his soldierly instincts, into preparations for the war.
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