CHAPTER XXIII.
The Rebel, Von Egmond, the first agricultural Settler on the Huron. --
Cutting the first Sheaf

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TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS IN CANADA WEST.



CHAPTER I.

EMBARKATION FOR CANADA. -- VOYAGE OUT. -- SEA-LIFE. -- ICEBERGS. --
PASSAGE UP THE ST. LAWRENCE. -- QUEBEC. -- MEMORIALS OF GENERAL WOLFE.
-- CATHEDRAL. -- HOSPITALITY. -- EARTHQUAKES. -- NUNS. -- MONTREAL. --
PROGRESS UP THE COUNTRY. -- MY ROMAN CATHOLIC FELLOW-TRAVELLER. --
ATTEMPT AT CONVERSION. -- THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITBY.

A PREFERENCE for an active, rather than a professional life, induced me
to accept the offer made by an old friend, of joining him at
Darlington, in Upper Canada, in the year 1825. I therefore took leave
of my family and pleasant home, in Suffolk, and engaged a passage in
the brig "William M'Gilevray," commanded by William Stoddart, an
experienced American seaman.

On the 28th of March we left the London Docks, and dropped down the
river to Gravesend, and on the following day put our pilot ashore off
Deal, and reached down as far as the coast of Sussex, where we were
becalmed for two days. Here one of our cabin-boys, a German, met with a
very serious accident by falling down the after hatchway, and