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1789 



PriNGLE, J. F. Lunenburgh or the old eastern district, its settlement 1789 

 and early progress: with personal recollections of the town of Cornwall, » rin g' e 

 from 1824; . . . Cornwall. 1890. Pp. 112. 165. 



Extracts from the journal of Miss Ann Powell who visited the Falls 

 in I 789 and from the travels of the Duke de la Rochefoucault as quoted 

 in Gourley's " Statistical Account of Upper Canada." On page 1 65 are 

 described the postal arrangements of one hundred years ago, when not 

 much facility was afforded for correspondence. The mail between Montreal 

 and Niagara was sent by couriers, who travelled most of the way on foot, 

 and took six months to make the round trip. 



1791 



CLARK, John. Memoirs of Colonel John Clark, of Port Dalhousie, 1791 

 C. W. (Ontario hist. soc. Papers and records. 7:173-175.) Clark 



Written in 1 860 when the writer was in his seventy-eighth year. A 

 brief account of the visit of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and father of 

 Queen Victoria, to the Falls in 1 79 1 . 



I recollect my brother, Peter Clark, then in the Naval Depart- 

 ment at Kingston in 1 793, accompanied Prince Edward, Duke 

 of Kent, and father to our present Queen Victoria, across Lake 

 Ontario on his way to the Falls. They sailed in his boat, fitted 

 up a little extra for the purpose, from the Government stores. 

 They arrived safe at Niagara and were welcomed by Governor 

 Simcoe, who paid the prince every attention his limited accommo- 

 dation would allow. 



From thence the party proceeded on horseback by the River 

 Road, then partly opened by the troops. 



On referring to my memorandum I find a further account of 

 the Duke of Kent's visit to Upper Canada. 



Our beloved Queen Victoria's father, and grandfather to the 



Prince of Wales, who paid us a visit in 1860, arrived from 



England at Quebec in the year 1791, a short time before the 



division of the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower 



Canada. 



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