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took a similar view of their candidate and clung to him, as they had much 
reason to do, with similar steadfastness.” 
Sir Allan MacNab’s eldest daughter was married in 1855 to the Right 
Honourable Viscount Bury, who was civil secretary to a Governor-General 
of Canada, and subsequently became the Earl of Albemarle. He was the 
author of the “‘ Exodus of the Western Nations ” (London, 1855). He died 
in 1894, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Arnold Allan Cecil, who is the 
8th Earl, and grandson of Sir Allan MacNab. Sir Allan’s second daughter 
was married to a son of Sir Dominick Daly, for years identified with Cana- 
dian public affairs, and a brother of the present Lieutenant-Governor of 
Nova Scotia, Sir Malachy B. Daly. Sir Allan’s only son, by his first marriage, 
accidentally shot himself while a lad. 
Sir Allan died on the 8th August, 1862, at the age of 64 years and six 
months, in the old mansion of Dundurn. Some mystery appears to surround 
his deathbed. Although he had been always a member of the Anglican 
Church, he received the last offices of religion from the hands of a Roman 
Catholic Bishop just as his soul was about to leave its earthly shell, and 
was subsequently buried according to the rites of that Church. Much excite- 
ment was caused by the circumstances of this strange closing scene in the 
life of the Canadian statesman, but it is idle to reopen the story now, and I 
shall only refer the curious reader to the narrative of Dent and Fennings 
Taylor. In the words of the latter: ‘ The mystery of those last days will 
not be made clear to us; we must be content to ‘scan gently,’ and not 
presume to pass judgment on what we can now see only in part, and what 
peradventure in this life we can never understand perfectly.” 
“ Who made the heart, ’tis He alone 
Decidedly can try us. 
He knows each chord—its various tone, 
Each spring—its various bias ; 
Then at the balance let’s be mute, . 
We never can adjust it ; 
What’s done we partly may compute, 
But know not what's resisted.” 
ANCASTER. 
Note 13, page 9. 
Ancaster is the name of both a village and township in the historic 
county of Wentworth. Mr. Gardiner (‘ Nothing but Names,” p. 265) tells 
us that the name was given in honour of “the parish of Ancaster in Lin- 
colnshire, which is situated on the great Roman road, called Ermin Street, 
and bears strong evidence of having been a Roman station; many authors 
unite to fix there the ancient Causerne of Antoninus.” 
