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caribou hunt, in Decemlier, to the north of Parrsborough, 

 and of moose-calling near Beaver Bank, being guided by 

 John Williams on the two last expeditions. Some of the 

 chapters had originally appeared, over the nom-de-plume 

 "Alces," in "The Field'' and "Land and Water." He refers 

 frequently, under the name of "The Old Hunter,'' to that 

 king of local sportsmen, Capt William Chearnlej^ whose 

 name is indelibly associated with the history of sport in this 

 province; and in after years he carried on an extensive cor- 

 respondence with Chearnley until the hitter's death in July 

 1871. 



After leaving Halifax in 1867, he was stationed at Dover, 

 Gibraltar, Chatham, Aldershot, and Queenstown. He ob- 

 tained his majority on 5th July, 1872, and his lieutenant- 

 colonelcy on 16th Jan., 1875, and was promoted to colonel 

 on 16th Jan., 1880, finally retiring on full pay, 29th May, 1880, 

 with the honorary rank of major-general. He then went to 

 pass the concluding years of his life at 3 Victoria Park, 

 Dover, England, and resided in that garrison town until his 

 death. 



There he took a foremost part in all good works. In 

 1901-02, during the latter part of the South African War, he 

 and his daughter Lucy were intimately connected with a 

 convalescent home at Dover, at which invalid Colonial 

 soldiers, mostly Canadians (about 90), from Shorncliffe Camp, 

 went to recuperate. They again did a vast amounc of good 

 work among the soldiers and invalids of the Great War. 



About 1900 Lord William Seymour told me that General 

 Hardy was still alive and keenly interested in Nova Scotia 

 and our Institute, and desired to be remembered to some of 

 my family with whom he had been associated in sport. This 

 renewed an acquaintance by correspondence, which evidenced 

 how vivid were all his recollections of those old days. He 

 still cherished an earnest desire to revisit Nova Scotia, to 

 see its forests and rivers and other well-remembered scenes, 

 his surviving friends and the Indians, and to once more fish 

 and shoot here; but this wish he was not able to gratify. On 

 30th Oct., 1903, he renewed his connection with the Institute, 

 being elected a corresponding member in consideration of 

 his past services and continued interest, and as being its 

 last surviving original member. 



