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- His birth was recorded at Bethesda Meeting House Paradise Place Barker Gate-Notting (extracted)
Christening 30 SEP 1824 Fletcher Gate Sion Independent
Living on Peel St in Dundas for the 1852C
He is described as a merchant in Reid's Marriage Notices, / The Church, Toronto 1837-1849 pages 209-210, published on Friday, 16 July 1847 (published every Friday). The same source says he was married at St Andrews and that his bride was Eliza Anne, second daughter of Andrew Pettit, all of Grimsby
June 2, 1866: Canadian forces (the Queen's Own Rifles) under Lt Col Alfred Booker were driven back by the Fenians at Ridegway, Ontario with the loss of 10 dead and 38 wounded. Fenians retreated to Fort Erie
see http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/page_attachments/Library/1/1153183_Battle_of_Ridgeway_ENG.pdf
Lt Colonel Alfred Booker, of the 13th Battalion, a professional auctioneer from Hamilton who had been left in command of the volunteer column, was now in charge
Lt. Colonel Alfred Booker (13th Hamilton Battalion, later the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry), upon whom command of Canadian volunteers had devolved (because of another's stupidity or cowardice), was determined by a board of inquiry to have handled his men poorly at the Battle of Ridgeway (sometimes referred to as the Battle of Lime Ridge), during the Fenian Raid at Niagara on June 2, 1866. The Irish-Americans numbered about 900 (after 200 desertions upon crossing the Niagara River). On this day they clashed with about 800 advancing Canadian militia commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Booker. Fenian scouts on horseback were mistaken for cavalry, and orders to defend against a cavalry charge, although quickly countermanded, led to chaos in the Canadian ranks and Booker ordered a withdrawal after only one to three hours of battle. The Canadian line began contracting, "What are they doing?", the Fenians asked. It was a square. "Haven't seen that since Bull Run," was heard from the ranks. The battle commenced according to plan. The skirmishers engaged the Canadian enemy and then withdrew. Unfortunately someone in the first line fired revealing the trap. The Crown forces began to conform to meet this new threat. They advanced, and the Fenians fell back on their reserves.
Then the Canadians formed a square. Their officers had seen horseman, and, in the tradition of Wellington, adopted his tactics from Waterloo in 1815. The Fenians, being offered a stationary target in-depth, let them have it.
Mount Royal Cemetery,
1297 Chemin de la For [1]
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1824 - 1871 (47 years)
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