Capture of York--Immigration increasing--David Annis--Niagara--Prosperous lumber business--Ship-building--High freight rates--Salmon spearing--Meteoric showers--An affrighted clergyman--Cold winters--A tragedy of the clearings 51 CHAPTER VI. Discontent in Upper Canada--Election riots--Shillelahs as persuaders--William Lyon Mackenzie--Rioting in York--Rebellion--Patriots and sympathizers--A relentless chase--Crossing Lake Ontario in midwinter--A perilous passage--A sailor hero--A critical moment--Safe on shore--“Rebellion Losses Bill”--Transported to Botany Bay--Murder of my grandfather--Canadian legends--A mysterious guest 65 CHAPTER VII. Religious movements--Itinerant preachers--$50 a year--Camp-meetings--Weird scenes at night--Millerites--World coming to an end--Dissenters attempt to fly--Affrighted by a “sun-dog”--Destruction fails to materialize--The Mormons--An improvised Gabriel--Raising the dead--Converts--Salt Lake--An Irish refugee and his poem 89 CHAPTER VIII. Canadian laws--Cases of justifiable homicide--Ineffectual attempt to discipline a church member--Major Wilmot--Asa Wallbridge--“Uncle Ned”--Cows and matrimony--A humorous dialogue--A witty retort--An amusing duel 102 CHAPTER IX. Paring bees--Mirth and jollity--Dancing and games--Playing “forfeits”--Anti-Slavery Act--Canada’s proud distinction--Refugee slaves--“Uncle Tom”--Old Jeff--Story of a slave 120 CHAPTER X. Civil war in the United States--Large bounties paid Canadian recruits--Prices of products go up--More than two million men under arms--I make a trip to Washington--Visiting the military hospitals--I am offered $800 to enlist--Brief interview with President Lincoln--A pass secured--I visit the Army of the Potomac--90,000 men under canvas--Washington threatened by the Confederates--Military prison at Elmira, N.Y.--Cheap greenbacks--A chance to become a multi-millionaire 137 CHAPTER XI. The “_Trent_ affair”--Excitement in Canada--Bombastic “fire-eaters”--Thriving banks--High rates of interest--Railway building--The bonus system--A sequestered hamlet--A “psychologist” and his entertainment--A mock duel--A tragic page of family history 153 CHAPTER XII. Fenianism--A claimant for my father’s farm--A scare at Port Oshawa--Guns, forks and clubs for fighting--Awkward squad--Guard catch a young man out courting--The Fenian raid of 1866--A Catholic priest taken prisoner--United States Government at last cries “Stop!”--Adventure in high life--A youth runs away from home--Tragic death of the mother of the runaway--Marries the serving-maid--Wedding and funeral journey in one 171 CHAPTER XIII.