Colonel Talbot--His slanderous utterances with regard to Canadians--The beaver--Salmon in Canadian streams--U. E. Loyalists have to take the oath of allegiance--Titles of land in Canada--Clergy Reserve lands--University of Toronto lands--Canada Company lands 27 CHAPTER III. The War of 1812--Canadian feeling with regard to it--Intolerance of the Family Compact--Roger Conant arrested and fined--March of Defenders to York--Roger Conant hides his specie--A song about the war--Indian robbers foiled--The siege of Detroit--American prisoners sent to Quebec--Feeding them on the way--Attempt on the life of Colonel Scott of the U. S. Army--Funeral of Brock--American forces appear off York--Blowing up of the fort--Burning of the Don bridge--Peace at last 37 CHAPTER IV. Wolves in Upper Canada--Adventure of Thomas Conant--A grabbing land-surveyor--Canadian graveyards beside the lake--Millerism in Upper Canada--Mormonism 60 CHAPTER V. Abolition of slavery in Canada--Log-houses, their fireplaces and cooking apparatus--Difficulty experienced by settlers in obtaining money--Grants to U. E. Loyalists--First grist mill--Indians--Use of whiskey--Belief in witchcraft--Buffalo in Ontario 72 CHAPTER VI. A manufactory of base coin in the Province of Quebec--A clever penman--Incident at a trial--The gang of forgers broken up--“Stump-tail money”--Calves or land? Ashbridge’s hotel, Toronto--Attempted robbery by Indians--The shooting of an Indian dog and the consequences 87 CHAPTER VII. The Canadian Revolution of 1837-38--Causes that led to it--Searching of Daniel Conant’s house--Tyrannous misrule of the Family Compact--A fugitive farmer--A visitor from the United States in danger--Daniel Conant a large vessel owner--Assists seventy patriots to escape--Linus Wilson Miller--His trial and sentence--State prisoners sent to Van Diemen’s Land 97 CHAPTER VIII. Building a dock at Whitby--Daniel Conant becomes security--Water communication--Some of the old steamboats--Captain Kerr--His commanding methods--Captain Schofield--Crossing the Atlantic--Trials of emigrants--Death of a Scotch emigrant 114 CHAPTER IX. Maple sugar making--The Indian method--“Sugaring-off”--The toothsome “wax”--A yearly season of pleasure 122 CHAPTER X. Winter in Ontario--Flax-working in the old time--Social gatherings--The churches are centres of attraction--Winter marriages--Common schools--Wintry aspect of Lake Ontario 129 CHAPTER XI. The coming of spring--Fishing by torch-light--Sudden beauty of the springtime--Seeding--Foul weeds--Hospitality of Ontario farmers 136 CHAPTER XII.