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these short references to the war of 1812-15 with the mention of the fact 
that Lieutenant Fitzgibbon received promotion for his exploits at 
Beaver Dam, that a quarter of a century later he again performed good 
service for the Crown during Mackenzie’s mad insurrection, and that he 
died at a hale old age one of the military knights of Windsor Castle." 
Colonel Harvey received far higher honours for useful military and civil 
services. He obtained the knighthood of the Bath, was made a lieu- 
tenant-general, and became lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland, New 
Brunswick and Nova Scotia. I can well remember as a lad seeing his 
venerable, still soldierly figure on the streets of Halifax where he died 
a royal governor of my native province.*! It is a great pleasure for me 
now to recall the fact that I should have seen this eminent man, whose 
memory is as much respected by the student of constitutional govern- 
ment in Canada, as it is honoured by the lover of brave deeds in war. 
It is also a pleasurable thought of mine at this moment, that this historic 
district has another link of intimate connection with my native province, 
in the fact that the County of Wentworth has taken its name from that 
of a famous Governor of Nova Scotia, who left New Hampshire during 
the American revolution rather than be faithless to that Crown to which 
he had sworn allegiance. 
While these events were happening in this district a young lad, long 
associated in later life with the history of Hamilton, was just entering 
on a memorable career which lasted for half a century. Allan Napier 
MacNab, the son of a Loyalist,'? who served under Colonel, afterward 
Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, during the American revolution, was only 
a schoolboy of thirteen years when he fought by the side of his father 
on the taking of York by Chauncey and Dearborn. We hear of him next 
as a midshipman in the fleet commanded by Commodore Yeo, when 
General Prevost showed his incapacity by ordering a retreat from 
Sackett’s Harbor. Then MacNab left the navy and took service in 
the British army, which he accompanied in its attack on Fort Niagara 
and other places on the Niagara frontier. Later, he was engaged in the 
ignoble retreat of a splendid force of Peninsular veterans from Platts- 
burg, when the incapable Prevost had victory at any moment within his 
reach. On the return of peace MacNab studied law and eventually be- 
came identified with the fortunes of the town of Hamilton, which came 
into being soon after the close of the war. During the rebellion of 1837 
. he led “the men of Gore” to the support of Sir Francis Bond Head, that 
indiscreet lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada. “The men of Gore ” 
then became an historic phrase, illustrative from that day to this of the 
loyalty of the people of Wentworth and adjacent counties. The young 
loyalist fighter of 1812-15 became in the course of time a speaker of the 
