Our Earliest Canadian Ancestors in Canada
![Henry Bull Wallis’s
Ribbon Ridgeway F923, Acc. 11488
Scrapbook of Fenian Raid 1870 (contains clippings from Huntingdon Gleaner) [1936] (Archives of Ontario, F 923, MU 2648, #98, Acc. 11488)
Hamilton Spectator, June 4, 1866 Archives of Ontario P2;N184,Reel 34
The Battle of Ridgway(sic) will long form an important incident in the history of the Canadian Volunteers, an incident replete with reflections of a pleasant and of a most unpleasant character; of duty done, and of a reckless sacrifice of brave men to the incompetency(sic) or neglect of those upon whom their chief reliance in the moment of danger was placed. So many and contradictory have been the reports of the battle which have reached the city, and been published, that we are sure the public will be glad of a record of the doings of our brave fellows since, full of life and spirits, they left us on Friday morning. And in order that this natural wish may be gratified, we have secured information from all who were competent, from personal observation on the field, either during the engagement or immediately after it, to give it.
That the record maybe circumstantial, we commence with the leaving of our volunteers on Friday morning. After some little delay at Paris, which under the circumstances was perhaps not much to be wondered at, the troops proceeded to Dunnville, being joined by the Queen’s Own Rifles of Toronto, and some other companies, and proceeded as far as Dunnville where, after the men had been billeted, they were ordered to move on to Port Colborne(map of area) that night.](Wallis_%26_The_Fenian_Raids_2_files/shapeimage_4.png)
Our Earliest Canadian Ancestors in Canada