The Coldstream continued all this time to remain at Quebec, nor were they moved therefrom until they left North America in 1842. During these years small drafts were annually sent out to keep up the Battalion to its proper strength, and upon almost every occasion they were inspected previous to departure by the Colonel of the Regiment, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. Arrangements for winter clothing were made by the Commanding Officer, who authorized a coat and cap to be worn by the Officers, in cold weather, the former to replace the ordinary red coatee, then used instead of the present tunic. An allowance was made by the Treasury, calculated at £1 10_s._ for every effective soldier serving in Canada for the first winter, and at 5_s._ for subsequent winters. This money formed a fund, from which a supply of winter clothing was provided for Non-commissioned officers and men. These articles were to be considered public property, and could, if necessary, be transferred from one man to another. In the winter, parties were sent out into the woods when snow lay deep on the ground, to be practised in “camping, etc.,” or rather, in constructing log huts. The public duties in Quebec appear to have averaged two Subalterns (on guard at the Castle and at the citadel), 10 sergeants, 15 corporals, 2 drummers, and from 110 to 180 men,—besides ten to fourteen men of the Royal Artillery. It may here be mentioned that the stuffed goose’s head, adorned with a gorget (to be seen in the Regimental Orderly Room), records an incident which took place at this time. The goose, having attached itself to the Battalion, became the constant companion of one of the sentries in the citadel, and a humble, though faithful friend and follower of the Regiment. While it lived it wore the gorget that now is to be found round its neck; and a picture, also in the Orderly Room, testifies to its never varying attendance on the beat of the sentry it had chosen to follow. On March 27, 1841, Officers were posted to companies as under:— Compy. Lieutenant-Colonels. Captains. Lieutenants. No. 1. Hon. James Hope. J. Forbes. Hon. L. Hope. Hon. C. Grimston. No. 2. Hon. T. Ashburnham. J. Elrington. Hon. A. Graves. No. 3. C. Hay. R. Hulse. M. Tierney. S. Perceval. No. 4. H. Bentinck. P. Bathurst. W. Clayton. No. 5. T. Chaplin. H. Daniell. J. Kirkland. W. Verner. No. 6. W. Codrington. R. Vansittart. P. Somerset. No. 7. W. Stewart-Balfour. Earl of Caledon. G. Whyte-Melville. No. 8. E. Wigram. C. Windham. T. Wigram. E. Milman.