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[Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL BROCK.

(_From miniature painting by J. Hudson._)

Copyrighted in the U. S. A. and Canada.

--From Nursey's "Story of Isaac Brock" (Briggs).]




                           BROCK CENTENARY

                              1812-1912

                   ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATION AT
                    QUEENSTON HEIGHTS, ONTARIO,
                     ON THE 12th OCTOBER, 1912




                        ALEXANDER FRASER, LL.D.
                               Editor




                              TORONTO
             PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE COMMITTEE BY
                          WILLIAM BRIGGS
                                1913




                             DEDICATED

                                TO

                 THE DESCENDANTS OF THE DEFENDERS




                   Copyright, Canada, 1913, by
                         ALEXANDER FRASER




PREFATORY NOTE


The object of this publication is to preserve an account of the
Celebration, at Queenston Heights, of the Brock Centenary, in a more
convenient and permanent form than that afforded by the reports
(admirable as they are) in the local newspapers.

Celebrations were held in several places in Ontario, notably at St.
Thomas, where Dr. J. H. Coyne delivered a fervently patriotic address.
Had reports of these been available, extended reference would have been
gladly and properly accorded to them in this book. Considerable effort,
involving delay in publication, was made to secure the name of every
person who attended at Queenston Heights in a