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56 Sill ROYAL SCOTS OF CANADA Major General E. Selby Smythe, at that time in command of the Canadian Militia. The 5th Royal P'usileers were numerically the strongest unit on parade, the brigade parade state being given as follows:—Montreal Hussars, 30; Montreal Engineers, 38; 1st Prince of Wales Rifles, 232; 3rd Victoria Rifles, 260; 5th Royal Fusileers, 270; 6th Fusiliers (formerly 6th Hochelaga Light Infantry), 254. According to the newspapers reports the 5th Fusileers made a very favorable impression upon this occasion. Of the march past, the Herald report stated that the cheering with which the crowd had greeted the preceding corps "was doubled when the Royals came forging ahead towards the pivot like one man. Each company came in for special applause, but it is not lessening the recognition of the rest of the corps to say that the Highlanders excell in the steady and constant compact form of their ranks." At the conclusion of the inspection the Major General, addressing the field officers in a brief speech, remarked: "I wish you to express to the battalions on parade the great satisfaction I have in seeing such a fine military body of men, so very smart, soldierlike, and steady on parade. I need hardly say to a body of intelligent men, as I know you are, that in the critical state of affairs in Europe (the Eastern crisis), though there has been a lull of late, we cannot tell what may occur in the future. I can only tell you that from what I have seen, nothing will give me greater pleasure, if England should become involved in a lengthened European war, than to place in line of battle some of the splendid soldiers I see in this line." --î-^^r^S^^S^î^^C&f^—
Service in the Seventies in Aid of the Civil Power Historical Ceremonial Parades If there is any particular class of service which is especially distasteful to a citizen soldiery it is that in aid of the civil power, and the reason this class of service is so unpopular it is easy for any one to understand. If it is distasteful, it is nevertheless, a duty, and the Fifth Royals have never shirked it. They have had an exceptional lot of such service too, and the first of it came very soon after the reorg'anization of the regiment as the 5th Royal Fusileers. As a matter of fact the movement for the reorganization was to some extent assisted by the anxiety produced by the outbreak of ill-feeling and lawlessness, which developed from the regrettable incident known as the Guibord Affair, (i) The discussion over the points involved in this dispute was kept up for some time, ugly words were used on both sidtes, and narrow sectarianism reigned supreme not only in Montreal, but throughout the whole vicinit}^ Orangeism expanded rapidly on one side and new branches of the Irish Catholic Union, and similar organizations sprang into existence on tne other. Threats were made and challenges thrown down. The local Orangemen, spurred on by the taunts of the opposite party, and carried away by the enthusiasm engendered by the recent accession to their numerical strength, and by the defeat of the Church party in the Guibord matter, took steps towards holding a triumphant procession in Montreal on the succeeding Twelfth of July. This it was feared would precipitate a serious breach of the peace, and the Orangemen were asked to desist. For some time the Orangemen persisted, but calmer counsels prevailed, and the procession was cancelled, this sensible decision being followed by charges of cowardice against the members of the order. The very natural consequence was that the question of holding a procession the following Twelfth of July (1877) was soon broached, and (1) Joseph Guibord was a printer and a member of the Institut Canadien, which was put under the ban of the Roman Catholic Church (burial in consecrated ground being forbidden the members) for keeping preset ibed books in its library. GuitK)rd, who died Nov. 20th, 1S69, owned a lot in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, and his widow took proceedings in the courts to secure his interment therein She dying, the case was prosecuted by the Institut Canadien. Novemljer 28th' 1874, a decree of the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council, the highest court in the realm, was issued, ordering the interment to take place ; and an attempt was made to carry this into effect September 2, 1875, the hearse being stoned and turned back by a mob gathered at the Roman Catholic Cemetery gates. The interment finally took place, under protection of the whole Montreal militia brigade, November 16, 1875. decided upon. As the date approached, the excitement became intense. As threats to raid the armories of the city corps had b«en made, the militia authorities instructed Lieut.-Colonel P^letcher, D.A.G., to place guards on the armories, which were then temporarily situated in the ruins of the old drill shed on the site of the psesent structure on Craig street, and in the old Quebec Gate Barracks, which were situated on Commissioners street, on the site at present occupied by the C.P.R., east end freight offices, Berri street. So evident was it that in the prevailing temper of the community, a public procession of the Orangemen would produce disturbance, that a couple of days before the Twelfth, Mr. John Kerry, President of the St. George's Society, Mr. Ewan McLennan, President of the St. Andrew's Society, and Mr. W.- J. McMaster, President of the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, waited on the local officers of the Orange order to dissuade them from holding their procession. They succeeded after some trouble, the Orangemen agreeing to abandon their procession in the interests of public peace, contenting themselves with going singly to Knox Church to hear a special sermon delivered in commemoration of the day. Although the procession was abandoned, trouble was feared owing to public feeling being wrought to such a high tension, and the ihree representatives of the national societies, called upon the mayor and the civic authorities generally to take steps for the preservation of the peace. But nothing of any practical character was done, and a noisy mob, including many of the worst characters in the city, gathered on Victoria Scûare. Several citizens were molested, and about half pasi one, a young Orangeman, named Thomas Lett Racket, who while returning quietly to his office from the service in Knox Church had gone to the assistance of another man molested by some of the mob, was shot dead, and several revolver bullets fired into his body. Instantly the excitement throughout ihe city reached fever heat, and very grave consequences were feared. Lieut.-Colonel Fletcher, D.A.G., of the 5th Military District, at once issued orders to the officers commanding the Troop of Cavalry, Montreal Engineers, Garrison Artillery, ist Prince of Wales Rifles, 3rd Victoria Rifles,
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