Royal Scots of Canada Highlanders - Electric Scotland

6o 5th ROYAL SCOTS OF CANADA
wall, Sherbrooke and other cities, and so worked up
was public feeling, and so apprehensive every body of
acts of violence being precipitated, that the railway
companies ran pilot engines ahead of the special trains,
conveying the Orengemen. Strong guards of militia and
armed police were mounted at the railway depots. The
funeral took place from the Orange Hall, 8i St. James
street, to Christ Church Cathedral, of which congregation,
Hackett was a member, thence to Mount Royal
Cemetery. It was made the occasion of the biggest
Orange demonstration which ever took place in Montreal,
marched to the Champ de Mars, and the various corps
received orders for the night, strong guards remaining
on duty at the depots, the armories, and elsewhere, and
being relieved at convenient intervals. The following
morning the corps were put under arms at eight o'clock,
and at half past nine relieved from duty, the city being
then perfectly quiet.
But the keen sectional spirit showed no signs of
dying out, but steadi,y developed. The Orange lodges,
subsequent to the Hackett murder, passed solemn resolutions
declaring that henceforth thcv would exercise
and one of the largest ever held in Canada. The lodges
marched in full regalia, bearing flags and banners and
headed by their own bands. The militia did not take
part in the funeral procession, but occupied successive
commanding positions, moving, when changing stiation,
by side streets, parallel to the route of the procession.
There was a big di.splay of military force on Fletcher's
Field and along the cemetery avenue, the 5th Royals and
6th Fusiliers being drawn up on the height of ground in
the upper part of the field. After the conclusion of the
funeral these two regiments marched at the head of the
Orangemen on their return to the city. The brigade
their rights come what may. An early determination
was taken to hold a monster Orange celebration on the
succeeding Twelfth of July, preliminaries were forthwith
arranged, and these who had previously pleaded with the
Orangemen to abandon public demonstrations were now
silent. During the winter a feeling of apprehension once
more developed, and as the year 1878 wore on, and the
1 2th of ,Tuly apjjroached, grave troxible seemed to be unavoidable.
Threats of raids on the militia armories
having been made, guards were mounted on the old
drill
hall, the Quebec Gate Barracks, and the Bonsecours
Market, of an average strength at each place of forty.