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1S40, a detachmeiit of the 93rd Highlanders, under Lieut. Hay. In 1844, a detachment of the 

 84th regiment, under Lieut. "West. In 18-16, a detachment of the Royal Canadian Rifles, nndet 

 Lieut. Black. In 1S50, a detachment of the Roj'al Canadian Rifles, under Lieut Fitzgerald. 

 In 1851, a detachment of the Royal Canadian Rifles, Under Lieut. Moffatt. In 1351, some of 

 the Enrolled Pensioners, under Capt. Hodgetts. 



In regard to tlie Navy. In 1843, June 8th, the Minos, a large gun-boat, in charge of Mr. 

 Hatch and three men, arrived to l)e laid up. In the same year, the steamer Experiment, Lieut. 

 Boxer, Was stationed there. In 1847, the Same steamer, but commanded by Lieut. Harper. In 

 1847 also, tlie steamer Moliaiolc, commanded by Lieut. Tyssen. In ISoO, tlie same steamer, but 

 commanded by Lieut. Herbert. The place was also visited by Capt. Boss, R.N., when on his 

 Way to the Nortli Seas ; and by Lord Morpeth, Lord Prudhoe, and Sir Henry Harte, (the two 

 latter Captains in the Navy), on their Way to or from the Manitoulin islands. 



From Poulett Scrope's Life of Lord Sydenham, we learn that Fenetanguishene was visited by 

 that Governor of Canada in 1S40. " Prom Toronto across Lalce Simcoe to Fenetanguishene on 

 Lake Huron again, and back to Toronto, which I left again last night for the Bay of Quinte." 

 ^Private Letter, p. 190- 



The following account of the removal of the British post from Drummond's island to 

 Fenetanguishene in 1828, has been also derived from the Rev. Mr. Hallen, who gathered the 

 particulars from the lips of Mr. John Smith, aged SO, still living (1872) near Fenetanguishene, 

 formerly employed in the Ordinance Department at Quebec, and then as Commissariat Issuer 

 at Drummond's island. " Mr. John Smith and his wife remained on the island till the 14th of 

 November, 1828, when it Was given up to tlie Americans. Lieut. Carson commanding a 

 detachment of the 6Sth regiment Was tliere at the time ; and Mr. Smith well remembersdjieut. 

 Carson giving uj) the keys to the American officers, and that ' they shook hands quite friendly.' 

 The Governmeiit sent the brig Wellington to take away the British from the island, but it wag 

 too small, and they were obliged in addition to hire an American vessel. Mr. Keating was at 

 that time Port adjutant at the island, and Mr. RaWson, barrack master. Smitli arrived at 

 Fenetanguishene as a Commissariat Issuer on the 20th or 21st November, 1828. He does not 

 remember any vessels at Drummond islajid. He says that Commodore Barrie came up in the 

 Bullfrog ; and that the gossip of the island was, that he was the cause of its being given up to 

 the Americans. Mr. Keating, the Port adjutant. Was afterwards Port adjutant at Fenetangui- 

 shene, where he arrived in the spring of 1829, having been detained at Arnherstburgh. He 

 died in the year 1849. Mr. Smith said that, as far as he could recoUect, the detachments 

 stationed on the island were, of the 71st Regiment, under Lieut. Imisett ; of the 79th, under 

 Lieut. Matthews ; of the 24th, under Lieut. James ; of the 15th, under Lieut. Ingall. (The 

 last-named officer lived afterwards at Fenetanguishene.) In 182S, there were at Fenetangui- 

 shene 20 or 30 Marines, under the command of Lieut. Woodin, R. N. In regard to the four 

 gun-boats which are sunlc in the harbour, Mr. Smith said they were sunk there before 1828. 

 He remembers the name of only one of them, the Teciimseh." Mr. Hallen remarks: "The account 

 1 heard of these gun-boats when I came to Fenetanguishene was that they were brought here, 

 1 think, from Nottawasaga bay after the American war and were sunlv to prevent their rotting. 

 Vessels must have been built at Fenetanguishene," Mr. H. adds, "as 1 remember a place on the 

 Lalce Shore, about Ave miles N.W. of Fenetanguishene, bemg pointed out to me as the ' Navy 

 Tard.' Many of the logs Were still there." 



The Bee, which conveyed Mr. Gait when on his voyage of explorations along the western coast 

 of Lake Huron, was sold by public auction in 1832. In that year the first great reduction of 

 the naval and military establishment at Fenetanguishene toolc place. Step by step the process 

 went on until the ancient depot was finally extinguished, and in 1859 the stone barracks were 

 converted into a Public Reformatory. The enumeration of the stores disposed of by public 

 vendue, on Thursday the 15th of March, 1830, and six following days, at Fenetanguishene, will 

 not be without pathos. At all events, those who have, at any time, made boats and tlie appur- 

 tenances of boats one of their hobbies, will not dislike to read the homely names of the articles 

 then brought to the hammer. It wiU be observed that no mention is made of a certain memor- 

 able anchor laboriously dragged from York as far as the Landing en route to Fenetanguishene ; 

 but taken no further, becoming, when half embedded in the earth there, an object of per 

 petual wonderment to beholders : a thing too ponderous to be conveniently handled and 

 removed by an ordinary purchaser, let the amount paid for it be ever so trilling. 



