The Origin and Services of the 3rd (Montreal)

During this service the Battery wore the ordinary artillery uniform, which ithad adopted in 1862 or 1863, and which, with few changes,it still wears.Between 1866 and 1870 nothing out of the ordinary occurred in the histor}^ ofin the celebration of the first Dominionthe Battery, apart from its participationDay, July ist, 1867. There was a big review on Logan s Park, in which the Batteryparticipated, and it also fired three separate salutes that day at the readingsof the Confederation Proclamation, by the Mayor, the Hon. Henry Starnes,at Logan s Farm, at Dalhousie Square and at Victoria Square.During all these years the Battery was ordered out frequently to fire salutes,and also often turned out with the regulars for field days and reviews on Logan sFarm. The Battery was almost regarded by the regulars as one of their owncorps, and the result was most beneficial to the Battery. At this time, and for"WHEELINGINTO LINE."many years previously, the Battery had taken a leading part in almost everypublic movement in the city.The paylist on the preceding page is interesting in more respectsthan one.It is a significant fact that at this time there was a large proportion of the originalmembers still in the Battery, as the following copy of the pay-list of the Batterysigned April, 1856, will show:Major, Wm. F. Coffin ;First Lieutenants, Henry Hogan, Henry Bulmer ;Second Lieutenant, A. A. Stevenson ;Staff Sergeant, Wm. Masterman; Sergeants,Charles Garth, Alex. Ramsay ; Corporals, Joseph Bauden, Alex. Wand, Wm. Robb;Bombardiers; John Buchanan, Wm. Almour, William McGibbon ; Gunners, R. W.Isaacson, W. H. Boyd, Wm. Hobbs, T. W. Boyd, Joseph Tees, David Brodie, Neil5 1