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ties of the Niagara district to raise a cairn or monument of some kind to 

 commemorate the knding of the same loyal people on the banks of the 

 famous river. A movement is also on foot to erect a monument to Laura 

 Secord, the daughter of a Loyalist and the wife of another. It is an 

 encouraging fact that the women of Canada who are pursuing historical 

 researches with so much earnestness and profit, arc taking an active part 

 in this national movement for the revival of the history of our Past and 

 the erection of tablets and monuments in honour of our distinguished 

 Dead. How much can be achieved by the energy of one mian, can be 

 seen in the old historic township of Adolphustown, on the beautiful 

 Bay of Quinte, where the Reverend Mr. Forueret, after many years of 

 effort, has succeeded in erecting a pretty memorial church, in which 

 numerous tablets have been placed by the descendants of the Loyalist 

 Makers of British Canada. 



14. One Monument that should never be raised in Canada. 



The attempt that has been made within a year or two to obtain per- 

 mission to place in the city of Quebec a monument in honour of Briga- 

 dier-General Montgomery has not been renewed in the face of the deter- 

 mined opposition that it has properly evoked from all true Canadians, 

 especially from the women of the Dominion. We find nothing in Cana- 

 dian history or in the character or services of this soldier to justify our 

 encouragement of the proposed memorial. On the contrary, it would 

 be a positive desecration of Canadian soil, and a justification of treachery 

 on the part of an English soldier who had even served with Wolfe, and 

 of the invasion of Canada by the forces of a Continental Congress who 

 had only a short time previously insulted the religion of the French- 

 Canadians in an address to the British people. French and English 

 Canadians are animated by the kindliest sentiments towards their Ameri- 

 can neighbours, by the most sincere desire to have the closest possible 

 commercial and social relations with them, but such sentiments and 

 relations must be governed at all times by a sense of national respect 

 and dignity and not by forgetting what they owe to that memorable Past, 

 in which they remained faithful to the Crown and Empire — that past 

 from which has sprung the most loyal dominion of the Empire. 



If another national monument should sdon be erected in Quebec, it 

 ought to be in honour of Sir Guy Carleton — Lord Dorchester — who saved 

 Quebec from Montgomery and Arnold, drove tHe invaders from Canada, 

 and exorcised his powerful influence in doing full justice lo the French 

 Canadians when the Quebec Act — the charter of French Canadian civil 

 and religious rights — was in contemplation by the British Government 

 during the years he was Governor-General of Canada. 



