[le moine] HON. HENRY CALDWELL AT QUEBEC SI 



Caldwell failed to succeed in this project; it was thought too 

 important a monopoly to be given to one man, over sudli a large extent 

 of the harbour. Caldwell, a brave, intelligent and ajnbitious man, elated 

 with past honours confeiTed, aspired to a high post. He applied for 

 the position of Lt.-Governor, to be vacant by the return of Cramahé to 

 England. Greneral Haldimand, Governor of tlie colony, on being con- 

 sulted replied to Lord Germaine, that though he acknowledged tlie 

 fitness of Caldwell, still he preferred to see Col. Hamilton appointed 

 to the position previously held by Cramahé, which was done. 



Col. Henry Caldwell, during his tenure of office as Legislative- 

 Councillor, met with some contradictions and occasionally official 

 reproof; one instance in point: a complaint had been made to the 

 Colonel in 1783, about a captain of mUitia residing at St. Nicholas. 

 General Haldimand, in a letter on the subject to Caldwell, took 

 the militia-captain's part, Caldwell complained and justly too, of 

 favouritism having been shown to colonists, such as de Kouville and an 

 other; his juniors in rank, being made full colonels over his head. 



Later on. Col. Caldwell, smarting under the sense of injustice 

 that his military service was forgotten, resigned his commission as Lt.- 

 Colonel — but his permanent appointment as Eeceiver-General, in 

 1794 — allayed his irritation, one is led to believe. 



Caldwell was the friend of progress; had introduced the latest 

 machinery in his large grist-mills and saw-mills — and various 

 improvements on the numerous farms he had acquired in the country, — 

 in the system of tilling and fertilizing the soil, and improving the 

 breed of cattle and farm stock generally. 



In the year 1789, he became president of the first Society of Agri- 

 culture organized in Canada. On the 6th April of that year, the rank, 

 fashion, nobility and clergy of all denominatiojis, as well as com- 

 moners, crowded the halls of the Chateau St. Louis, at the beck of Lord 

 Dorchester to enter their names as subscribers to the Quebec 

 Agricultural Society. The Governor-General, Lard Dorchester was 

 named patron; Hon. Henry Caldwell, presid.ent, and the Hon. Hugh 

 Fin] ay. Deputy Postmaster-General, secretary. 



Subscribers. 



The Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec. Major R. Matthews. 



Chief Justice Wm. Smith. Capt. Rotson. 



Rev. Philip Toosey, Military Chaplain. Capt. Fraser. 



T. Monk, Attorney-General. Kenelm Chandler. 



John Blackwood. Peter Stewart. 



Matthew Lymburner. Malcolm Fraser. 



A. de Gaspé. Hon. Hugh Finlay. 

 Ohediah Aylwin. " Thos. Dunn. 



