Upon the 1st of June 1829, the head-quarters embarked in a steam-boat for York, now called Toronto, the capital of the Upper Province, and arrived there on the following morning.[33] One company was detached to Niagara, another to Amherstburg, and a third to Penetanguishene on Lake Huron. A small number of men occupied the naval post at Grand River on Lake Erie. The SEVENTY-FIRST occupied these posts for a period of two years. On the 10th of August 1829, the depôt companies embarked at Gravesend for Berwick-on-Tweed. Major-General Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B., was removed from the colonelcy of the ninety-fifth to that of the SEVENTY-FIRST regiment, on the 21st of September 1829, in succession to General Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B., who was appointed to the forty-ninth regiment. [Sidenote: 1830.] In June, 1830, the depôt companies were removed from Berwick-on-Tweed to Edinburgh Castle. [Sidenote: 1831.] In May 1831, the service companies moved down to Quebec, where the whole were assembled on the 16th of June. After a stay of nearly five months in that city, orders arrived for the SEVENTY-FIRST to proceed to Bermuda. The service companies embarked on the 20th of October 1831 in the transports Layton and Manlius, and arrived off St. George’s, Bermuda, upon the 11th of November, when they immediately disembarked, sending a detachment of one captain, two subalterns, and a hundred and twenty men to Ireland Island. The head-quarters were subsequently moved to Hamilton, and small parties were detached to the signal posts at Gibbs Hill and Mount Langton. [Sidenote: 1833.] During the years 1832 and 1833, the service companies continued at Bermuda, and the depôt remained in North Britain. On the 30th of August 1833, Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable Charles Grey exchanged from the half-pay to the SEVENTY-FIRST Regiment with Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Thomas Pidgeon. [Sidenote: 1834.] The tartan plaid scarf was restored to the SEVENTY-FIRST regiment by an authority (under the King’s Sign Manual) dated 17th of February 1834. On the 11th of September 1834, the service companies embarked at Bermuda for Great Britain, and arrived at Leith on the 19th of October following. The regiment was afterwards stationed at Edinburgh, where it remained during the year 1835. [Sidenote: 1836.] The regiment embarked at Glasgow on the 11th of May 1836 for Ireland, and was stationed at Dublin during the remainder of the year. [Sidenote: 1837.] In June 1837, the regiment proceeded from Dublin to Kilkenny. [Sidenote: 1838.] Major-General Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham, K.C.B., was appointed Colonel of the SEVENTY-FIRST regiment on the 28th of March 1838, in succession to Lieut.-General Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B., appointed to the thirty-first regiment. Meanwhile orders had been received for the regiment to proceed on foreign service, and on the 20th of April 1838 the six service companies embarked at Cork for Canada. The four depôt companies remained in Ireland.