Ridgeway
Two items to clear things up. Upper Canada College Cadet Corps was called out to place guards on important civil buildings in Toronto since most of the troops were on their way to the "front".
If they marched west it was to the end of the campus. They were stood down five days later.
Secondly the QOR was not on the field when the order to form square was given by an incompetent senior officer. The QOR had been moved to the reserve line because they had expended their ammunition. It was not too long ago that the memorial building at Ridgeway displayed a green flag with the gold harp prominently.
An incredible disgrace and they heard about it. Canadian store clerks and grocers shouldered arms bravely and marched into the field of battle to defend hearth and home against the invader. The second QOR man killed had less than thirty days in the Regiment. Wounds in those days were the loss of a lower jaw hit by a Fenian bullet. This QOR soldier later died. A doctor from Toronto rushed to the scene of the battle and watched his own son die in his arms. Terrible times.
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17-04-06, 22:34
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