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78-554: Thomas Talbot (July 19, 1771 – February 5, 1853) was an Irish-born Canadian soldier and colonial administrator. He founded the community of Port Talbot, Ontario , which was at one time the most prosperous town in the region due to his insistence on building quality roads, and was responsible for enticing 50,000 people to settle in the Thames River area. Talbot was born at Malahide Castle in County Dublin , Ireland. He

156-582: A depression in the Anglo-American world. This was worsened in Upper Canada by bad wheat harvests in 1836 and farmers were unable to pay their debts. Most banks – including the Bank of Upper Canada – suspended payments by July 1837 and successfully obtained government support while ordinary farmers and the poor did not. One fifth of British immigrants to Upper Canada were impoverished and most immigrant farmers lacked

234-536: A fort to protect against invasion via Lake Erie on Mount Pisgah, and another that was more land-based. During the War of 1812 , several former settlers of Talbot's settlement had defected to the American side. These men included Andrew Westbrook, Simon Zelotes Watson, Daniel Norton, Samuel Doyle, and James Pelton; of these, Westbrook and Watson were the most venomous in their contempt for Talbot. Watson had had interest in becoming

312-835: A legislative councillor, President of the Toronto and Lake Huron Railroad, Governor of the British American Fire and Life Assurance Company and President of the Board of Trade." Members of the Family Compact utilized their official positions for monetary gain, especially through corporations such as the Bank of Upper Canada , and the two land companies (the Clergy Corporation and the Canada Company ) that between them controlled two-sevenths of

390-481: A messenger to Lount to tell him not to arrive until December 7 but was unable to reach Lount in time. The men gathered at Montgomery's Tavern but were disappointed at the lack of preparation and the failure of the Lower Canada rebels. Although Lount wanted to launch an attack that night, other rebels leaders rejected that plan so that the troops could rest after their march and they could get information from Rolph about

468-416: A negotiation with Rolph, who accepted. Rolph and Robert Baldwin met the rebel troops at Gallows Hill and stated the government's proposal of full amnesty to the rebels if they dispersed immediately. Lount and Mackenzie asked that this offer be presented in a written document and a convention be organised to discuss the province's policies. When Rolph and Baldwin returned to Bond Head, they were informed that

546-424: A partner with Talbot who rejected him out of hand. Craving vengeance against his strict control over the settlers, they wanted to capture Talbot and take him prisoner. In 1814, they conducted several raids across Lake Erie, attacking Port Dover and other locations. As part of a rampage of destruction, on May 19, 1814, a small raiding party under the command of U.S. Colonel John B. Campbell attacked Port Talbot with

624-525: A rebellion began in Toronto. The mayor of Toronto refused to ring the City Hall bell if a rebellion began because he felt Fitzgibbon was causing unnecessary concern over a possible revolt. A Tory supporter obtained a copy of Mackenzie's declaration and showed it to authorities in Toronto. Government officials met at the Lieutenant Governor's residence on December 2 to discuss how to stop rumours of

702-425: A rebellion. Fitzgibbon warned the men of rebels forging pikes north of the city and he was appointed adjutant general of the militia. Rolph tried to warn Mackenzie about the warrant for his arrest but could not find him so delivered the message to Lount instead. Upon receiving Rolph's message Lount marched a group of rebels into Toronto for December 4. When hearing about this change, Mackenzie quickly tried to send

780-449: A sarcastic tone that belittled reformers. The Reform-dominated Assembly responded by refusing to pass the money bill , which halted the payment of salaries and pensions to many government workers. Bond Head then refused to pass any legislation from that government session including major public works projects. This caused a recession in Upper Canada. The movement was disappointed when Bond Head made it clear he had no intention of consulting

858-642: A sawmill, a cooper shop, a blacksmith shop, and a poultry house along with a barn. When settlers began to arrive in 1809, Talbot added a gristmill as well. Here he ruled as an absolute, if erratic, potentate, doling out strips of land to people of his choosing, a group that emphatically did not include supporters of the American Revolution, liberals or anyone insufficiently respectful. For every settler he placed on 50 acres (200,000 m) of land, Talbot received an additional 200 acres (0.81 km) for himself. He wanted permanent and compact settlement. One of

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936-699: A similar armed rebellion, the Newport Rising , in Wales in 1839. The Canadian Alliance Society was reborn as the Constitutional Reform Society in 1836, and led by the more moderate reformer, William W. Baldwin . The Society took its final form as the Toronto Political Union in 1837 and they organized local "Vigilance Committees" to elect delegates to a Constitutional Convention in July 1837. This became

1014-871: The 12th Parliament of Upper Canada but the Family Compact held the majority in the Legislative Council. The union was reorganized as the Canadian Alliance Society in 1835 and adopted much of the platform of the Owenite National Union of the Working Classes in London , England, that were to be integrated into the Chartist movement in England. In pursuit of this democratic goal, the Chartists eventually staged

1092-552: The Family Compact incurred as the results of general improvements to the province, such as the Welland Canal . The Upper Canada legislature refused to pass a supply bill in 1836 after Bond Head refused to implement responsible government reforms. In retaliation Bond Head refused to sign any bills passed by the assembly, including public work projects. This contributed to economic hardship and increased unemployment throughout

1170-580: The French Revolution of 1789–99, the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 , and the independence struggles of Spanish America (1810–1825). While these rebellions differed in that they also struggled for republicanism , they were inspired by similar social problems stemming from poorly regulated oligarchies, and sought the same democratic ideals, which were also shared by

1248-691: The Home District and Simcoe County created weapons for the rebellion. On October 9, 1837, a messenger from the Patriotes of Lower Canada informed Mackenzie that the rebellion in Lower Canada was going to begin. Mackenzie gathered reformers at John Doel's brewery and proposed kidnapping Bond Head, bringing him to city hall and forcing him to let the Legislature choose the members of the Executive Council. If Bond refused, they would declare independence from

1326-404: The "baneful domination" of the mother country. Struggling to avoid the charge of sedition, reformers later purposefully obscured their true aims of independence from Britain and focused on their grievances against the Family Compact. Thus, responsible government became a "pragmatic" policy of alleviating local abuses, rather than a revolutionary anti-colonial moment. William Kilbourn stated that

1404-687: The British Empire. Reformers such as Thomas David Morrison opposed this plan and the meeting ended without consensus on what to do next. The next day Mackenzie convinced John Rolph that a rebellion could be successful and happen without anyone being killed. Rolph convinced Morrison to support the rebellion but they also told Mackenzie to get confirmation of support from rural communities. Mackenzie sought out support in rural communities but he also proclaimed that an armed rebellion would happen on December 7 and assigned Samuel Lount and Anthony Anderson as commanders. Rolph and Morrison were reluctant about

1482-710: The British North American colonies, so that Arthur reported to Durham. Durham was assigned to report on the grievances among the British North American colonists and find a way to appease them. His report eventually led to greater autonomy in the Canadian colonies and the union of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada in 1840. Over 800 people were arrested after the rebellion for being Reform sympathisers. Van Egmond died of an illness he acquired while imprisoned while Lount and Peter Matthews were sentenced to

1560-600: The British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario ) in December 1837. While public grievances had existed for years, it was the rebellion in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec ), which started the previous month, that emboldened rebels in Upper Canada to revolt. The Upper Canada Rebellion was largely defeated shortly after it began, although resistance lingered until 1838. While it shrank, it became more violent, mainly through

1638-523: The Crown providing goods for the people. Reformers such as Mackenzie and Samuel Lount lost their seats in the Legislature and they alleged that the election was fraudulent. They prepared a petition to the Crown protesting the abuses, carried to London by Charles Duncombe , but the Colonial Office refused to hear him. The new Tory-dominated Legislature passed laws that exacerbated tensions including continuing

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1716-413: The Executive Council in the daily operations of the administration. The Executive Council resigned, provoking widespread discontent and an election in 1834. Unlike previous Lt. Governors, Bond Head actively supported Tory candidates and utilized Orange Order violence in order to ensure their election. He appealed to the people's desire to remain part of the British Empire and a paternalistic attitude of

1794-623: The Honourable Peter Robinson, Dr. William Dunlop , Bishops Stuart and Strachan, Sir George Arthur, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Aylmer and many others. He lies buried at Port Talbot overlooking his beloved Lake Erie. Talbotville (a community in Southwold , Ontario) and the city of St. Thomas , Ontario, were named after him, as well as Colonel Talbot Road and Talbot Street in both London and St. Thomas. Port Talbot, Ontario Port Talbot

1872-636: The Legislative session after the death of the King, prohibiting members of the Legislature from serving as Executive Councillors, making it easier to sue indebted farmers, protecting the Bank of Upper Canada from bankruptcy, and giving Legislative Councillors charters for their own banks. On July 10, 1832, US President Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill for the refinancing of the Second Bank of the United States , causing

1950-661: The Rebellion involved the provisions of the Constitutional Act of 1791, which had created Upper Canada's political framework. The Family Compact dominated the government of Upper Canada and the financial and religious institutions associated with it. They were the leading members of the administration: executive councillors, legislative councillors, senior officials and some members of the judiciary. Their administrative roles were intimately tied to their business activities. For example, William Allan "was an executive councillor,

2028-495: The State of Upper Canada that closely resembled the objectives in the constitution of the Canadian Alliance Society in 1834. Mackenzie printed broadsheets listing grievances and a call to arms to communities surrounding Toronto. Mackenzie also printed handbills declaring independence which were distributed to citizens north of Toronto. Bond Head did not believe the reports that stated the severity of resources and discontent gathered by

2106-622: The Thames River area. Many, if not most, of the settlers were American. He had placed about 20,000 immigrants on the Talbot settlement by 1826. Because he had done his work so well, the government placed the southwestern part of the province under his charge. This afforded Talbot the opportunity of extending the Talbot road from the Long Point region to the Detroit River. In 1823, Talbot decided to name

2184-514: The United Kingdom's Chartists . The rebellion in Lower Canada, followed by its Upper Canada counterpart, led directly to Lord Durham 's Report on the Affairs of British North America , and to The British North America Act, 1840 , which partially reformed the British provinces into a unitary system, leading to the formation of Canada as a nation in 1867. Many of the grievances which underlay

2262-603: The Windmill , just eleven months after the initial battle at Montgomery's Tavern. The British government was concerned about the rebellion, especially in light of the strong popular support for the rebels in the United States and the Lower Canada Rebellion . Bond Head was recalled in late 1837 and replaced with Sir George Arthur who arrived in Toronto in March 1838. Parliament also sent Lord Durham to become Governor-in-Chief of

2340-524: The bank's workings. Politician and former journalist William Lyon Mackenzie saw the bank as a prop of the Government and demanded farmers withdraw the money they had deposited in the bank and public confidence in the bank decreased. The government of Upper Canada feared a growing interest in American-inspired republicanism in the province because of the increase in immigration of American settlers to

2418-472: The capital to pay for purchased land. Debt collection laws allowed them to be jailed indefinitely until they paid their loans to merchants. In March 1837 the Tories passed a law making it cheaper to sue farmers by allowing city merchants to sue in the middle of harvest. If the farmer refused to come to court in Toronto, they would automatically forfeit the case and their property subjected to a sheriff's sale. Among

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2496-422: The city and Mackenzie marched his troops towards Toronto. A group of twenty-six men led by Samuel Jarvis met the rebels on their march and fired upon them before running away. The rebels believed there were several battalions of troops firing upon them and several ran away. Lount encouraged some riflemen to return fire before realising that the enemy had left the battlefield. Lount and the riflemen marched to find

2574-405: The conditions attached to the free grant of 50 acres (200,000 m), which he offered to settlers, was the right to purchase an additional hundred and 50 acres (200,000 m) at $ 3 each, and the promise of a road in front of each farm within three and a half years. The other condition was the building of a small house and the clearing and sowing of 10 acres (40,000 m) of land. The result of

2652-623: The former rebels were compensated by the Canadian government for their lost property in the rebellion aftermath. The rebels from Toronto travelled to the United States in groups of two. Mackenzie, Duncombe, Rolph and 200 supporters fled to Navy Island in the Niagara River and declared themselves the Republic of Canada on December 13. They obtained supplies from supporters in the United States, resulting in British reprisals (see Caroline affair ). On January 13, 1838, under attack by British armaments,

2730-450: The gallows for leading the rebellion. Other rebels were also sentenced to hang and ninety-two men were sent to Van Diemen's Land . A group of rebels escaped their prison at Fort Henry and travelled to the United States. A general pardon for everyone but Mackenzie was issued in 1845, and Mackenzie himself was pardoned in 1849 and allowed to return to Canada, where he resumed his political career. John Charles Dent , writing in 1885, said

2808-480: The government to allow him to implement a land settlement scheme along the shore of Lake Erie. He chose property which today is in Elgin County , Ontario in adjoining townships, Dunwich and Aldborough (today called West Elgin), when his petition for 5,000 acres (20 km) was granted in 1803. It was May 21, 1803, that he landed at a spot which has been called since Port Talbot , and built a log cabin. Nearby, he added

2886-527: The government troops. They agreed to send sixty men to the Don Bridge to divert government troops. That afternoon a sentinel reported the government force's arrival from Gallows Hill. At this point only 200 men at Montgomery's Tavern were armed. The armed forces were split into two companies and went to fields on both sides of Yonge Street. The rebels without arms were sent to the tavern with their prisoners. The government forces also split into two companies when

2964-446: The government's offer had been withdrawn. Rolph and Baldwin relayed the rejection to the rebels, and Rolph told Mackenzie that they should attack as soon as possible because the city was poorly defended. Instead, Mackenzie spent the day burning down the house of Bank of Upper Canada official and questioning the loyalty of his troops. A few hours later Rolph sent a messenger to Mackenzie that Toronto rebels were ready for their arrival to

3042-418: The government. At noon Bond Head ordered that the troops, consisting of 1200 men and two cannons, march towards the rebels. Anthony Van Egmond arrived at the tavern on December 7 and encouraged the rebel leaders to disperse, as he felt the rebellion would not be a success. His advice was rejected, so he proposed entrenching and defending their position at the tavern. Mackenzie disagreed and wanted to attack

3120-406: The intent to destroy the port. Five days earlier, the team under Campbell had attacked Port Dover , burning several flour mills, saw mills, distilleries and a significant number of houses, of which senior U.S. officers were disgusted and the U.S. government later disavowed knowledge. Other raids on Port Talbot were conducted in July, August and September of the same year. The attack on September 9

3198-406: The land in the province. Lacking the minimum capital needed to found the bank, the corporate leaders persuaded the government to subscribe for a quarter of its shares. During the 1830s, a third of the bank's board were Legislative or Executive Councillors, and the remainder all magistrates. Despite repeated attempts, the elected Legislature – which had chartered the bank – could not obtain details on

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3276-412: The letter and continued his plan for rebellion. On Wednesday morning Peter Matthews arrived at the tavern with sixty men, but Mackenzie could still not convince the rebel forces to march towards Toronto. Instead, they decided to wait for Anthony Van Egmond to lead the rebellion into Toronto. The rebels raided a mail coach, stole the passenger's money and looked for information about the progress of

3354-409: The more than 150 lawsuits they launched that year, the Bank of Upper Canada, sued Sheldon, Dutcher & Co., a foundry and Toronto's largest employer with over 80 employees in late 1836, bankrupting the company. Mackenzie's first plan for rebellion involved calling on Sheldon & Dutcher's men to storm the city hall, where the militia's guns were stored. The Reformers were incensed at the debt that

3432-533: The most prosperous of its time in Upper Canada , noted for its good roads, with Talbot keeping out land speculators and securing hard-working settlers. Talbot's authoritarian control of the settlers led to conflicts with the Executive Council of Upper Canada and a reduction in his powers. As a result of invading American forces during the War of 1812 , the community was burned in 1814 in a series of raids and

3510-520: The most prosperous part of the province. Eventually, however, he began to make political demands on the settlers, after which his power was reduced by the provincial government. Talbot's abuse of power was a contributing factor in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. During the War of 1812 , Talbot commanded the 1st Middlesex Militia . Talbot's home in Port Talbot was called Malahide (which

3588-497: The neck and escaped back to Toronto to report to Bond Head. The rebel leaders met that night to discuss who would become the rebellion's leader after the death of Anderson and Lount's refusal to lead on his own. It was decided that Mackenzie would become the leader. At noon on December 5, Mackenzie gathered the rebels and marched them towards Toronto. Meanwhile, Bond Head proposed a negotiating session with rebel leaders to Marshall Spring Bidwell , who declined. Bond Head then offered

3666-535: The organizational structure for the Rebellion and most of the rebel organizers were elected Constitutional Convention delegates. Sir Francis Bond Head was appointed as Lieutenant-Governor and the Reform movement believed he would support their ideas. After meeting with Reformers, Bond Head concluded that they were disloyal to the British Empire and allied himself with the Family Compact. He refused proposals to bring responsible government to Upper Canada, responding in

3744-590: The plan so Mackenzie sought Anthony Van Egmond to help lead the armed forces. In November 1837, in the lead-up to the Political Union's Constitutional Convention, Mackenzie published a satire in the Constitution , a round table discussion by John Locke , Benjamin Franklin , George Washington , Oliver Goldsmith and William Pitt and others. As part of this satire, he published a draft republican constitution for

3822-466: The port after his friend Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , whose son, Frederick would become Canada's governor general and donate to the ice-hockey world the trophy that still bears his name . According to returns placed before the House of Assembly in 1836, title to some 5,280,000 acres (21,400 km) located in twenty-nine townships had at one time gone through his hands. Talbot's administration

3900-601: The province. Mackenzie gathered reformers on July 28 and 31, 1837 to discuss their grievances with the government. The meeting created the Committee of Vigilance and signed a declaration urging every community to send delegates to a congress in Toronto and discuss remedies for their concerns. Mackenzie printed the declaration in his newspaper and toured communities north of Toronto to encourage citizens to make similar declarations. Farmers organised target practice sessions and forges in

3978-441: The province. The large number of migrants led American legislators to speculate that bringing Upper Canada into the American fold would be a "mere matter of marching". After the War of 1812 the colonial government prevented Americans from swearing allegiance, thereby making them ineligible to obtain land grants. Relations between the appointed Legislative Council and the elected Legislative Assembly became increasingly strained in

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4056-419: The raids, was never rebuilt which may have slowed the expanse of settlement from that point forward. Port Talbot was geographically located at the mouth of Talbot Creek. No remnants exist from the settlement and it is reported as being a location noted only on maps. The Talbot Regime Upper Canada Rebellion The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of

4134-456: The rebel's march into Toronto and notified Fitzgibbon, who tried unsuccessfully to have officials take action. On December 4, Mackenzie and other rebels were patrolling the area and encountered Alderman John Powell and Archibald Macdonald . Mackenzie took both men prisoner but did not search them for weapons as they gave their word that they did not have any. As they were approaching Montgomery's Tavern Powell mortally shot Anthony Anderson in

4212-577: The rebellion hastened the changes Reformers advocated by drawing attention to the province from the Colonial Office and the production of the Durham Report . Paul Romney argued that the above assessments are a failure of historical imagination and the outcome of an explicit strategy adopted by reformers in the face of charges of disloyalty to Britain in the wake of the Rebellions of 1837. In recounting

4290-416: The rebellion in London , Upper Canada. Mackenzie also attacked other travellers and robbed them or questioned them about the revolt. The government organised a council of war and agreed to attack the rebels on December 7. Fitzgibbon was appointed commander of the government's forces. Although initially believing the government's position was untenable he was inspired by a company of men that formed to defend

4368-408: The rebellion was a reaction from the public of the government mismanagement of the minority ruling elite. Frederick Armstrong believed the rebellion was a reaction to patronage afforded to members of the Family Compact after winning the 1836 election. Dent wrote that the rebellion caused England to notice the concerns of Canadian reformers and reconsider their colonial rule of the province. He thought

4446-424: The rebels fired upon them. The rebels dispersed in a panic after the first round of firing thinking the rebel's front row had been killed when they were simply dropping to the ground to allow those behind them to fire. The government continued their march and at Montgomery's Tavern a cannon shot into the dining room window. The rebels fled north and the morale of the rebellion was irreparably broken. Bond Head ordered

4524-561: The rebels fled. Mackenzie went to the United States mainland where he was arrested for violating the Neutrality Act . The rebels continued their raids into Canada using the U.S. as a base of operations and, in cooperation with the U.S. Hunters' Lodges , dedicated themselves to the overthrow of British rule in Canada. The raids did not end until the rebels and Hunters were defeated at the Battle of

4602-459: The rebels who fled and found Mackenzie trying to convince the rebels to continue their path towards Toronto. The rebels refused to march until daylight. On Tuesday night MacNab arrived in Toronto with sixty men from the Hamilton area. Morrison was arrested and charged with treason while Rolph sent a letter encouraging Mackenzie to send the rebels home then fled to the United States. Mackenzie ignored

4680-444: The rebels. In November 1837, James Fitzgibbon was concerned about soldiers leaving Upper Canada going to quell the Lower Canada Rebellion and urged Bond Head to keep some troops for protection, which was refused. Fitzgibbon's call to arm a militia was also denied and he refused an armed guard at the Government's House and City Hall. After the Battle of Saint-Denis Fitzgibbon prepared a list of men that he could contact personally if

4758-507: The road-making provision was that the settlement became noted for its good roads, especially for that named Talbot Road. By the late 1820s Colonel Thomas Talbot had organized the construction of a 300-mile-long (480 km) road linking the Detroit River and Lake Ontario as part of a grand settlement enterprise in the south western peninsula. By 1820, all of the land originally allotted to Talbot had been taken up. From 1814 to 1837 he settled 50,000 people on 650,000 acres (2,600 km) of land in

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4836-401: The settlement that would be his home for the remainder of his life. Two years earlier, he had attempted to secure a settlement at either Kettle Creek (now Port Stanley) or Catfish Creek but his land grant was detained which prevented his ability to settle in such an area. Upon his arrival in Port Talbot, he is reported to have remarked "Here will I roost and will soon make the forest tremble under

4914-520: The standard grains, the settlers planted Indian corn. Talbot was adept at finding individuals who had skill in infrastructure development. Roads were added to the new settlement by John Bostwick, starting with the Talbot Road in 1804. Bostwick was the son of the Reverend Gideon Bostwick, rector of Barrington of Massachusetts . John was not a novice to road surveying, having apprenticed under

4992-407: The status of rebels who lived in Toronto. A loyalist named Robert Moodie saw the large gathering at Montgomery's Tavern and rode towards Toronto to warn the officials. The rebels set up a roadblock south of the tavern on Yonge Street that Moodie tried riding through. He was wounded in an ensuing battle and taken to the tavern, where he died several hours later in severe pain. Another horseman saw

5070-637: The support of the Hunters' Lodges , a secret United States–based militia that emerged around the Great Lakes , and launched the Patriot War in 1838. Some historians suggest that although they were not directly successful or large, the rebellions in 1837 should be viewed in the wider context of the late-18th- and early-19th-century Atlantic Revolutions including the American Revolutionary War in 1776,

5148-620: The supposed atrocities committed by Bond Head against all suspected reformers to help increase anti-government support. It is estimated that there were between 400 and 500 rebels who assembled under Duncombe. Colonel Allan MacNab , who had just finished leading Upper Canadian militiamen during the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, was sent to engage Duncombe's uprising. He left Hamilton, Ontario on December 12 and arrived in Brantford on December 13. Although many rebels, including Duncombe, had fled prior to

5226-416: The surveyor who had laid out Aldborough Township. Later, John held the offices of high constable and sheriff of the London office and was the son-in-law of Joseph Ryerson . James Witton was contracted to build log houses and Mahlon Burwell constructed a bridge over Talbot Creek. Intending to protect his settlers, Talbot, deputized by Colonel Brock in 1812 and given charge of the Middlesex militia, built

5304-419: The tavern to be burned down and the rebels arrested. News of the intended rebellion had reached London, Upper Canada and its surrounding townships by December 7. It was initially thought that the Toronto rebellion was successful, contributing to Charles Duncombe wanting to rise up as well. Upon hearing more details about the rebellion in Toronto, Duncombe convened a series of public meetings to spread news of

5382-409: The upcoming battle due to hearing about the failure of Mackenzie in Toronto and general disorganization, there were still some present in Scotland, Ontario and MacNab commenced his attack on Scotland on December 14, causing the remaining rebels to flee after only a few shots were fired. The victorious Tory supporters burned homes and farms of known rebels and suspected supporters. In the 1860s, some of

5460-410: The wings of the flock I will invite by my warblings around me!" Before long, he had erected a functional log house on a hill facing the lake and with a view of the valley of Talbot Creek. At his own expense, he built the first water mill in the settlement at Talbot Creek and had it functioning by 1808. He provided the settlers to his community with seed for wheat, barley, peas and oats. In addition to

5538-402: The years after the war, over issues of immigration, taxation, banking and land speculation. The Upper Canada Central Political Union was organized in 1832–33 by Thomas David Morrison and collected 19,930 signatures on a petition protesting William Lyon Mackenzie's expulsion from the House of Assembly. The Reformers won a majority in the elections held in 1834 for the Legislative Assembly of

5616-407: The “myths of responsible government”, Romney opined that after the ascendancy of Loyalism as the dominant political ideology of Upper Canada any demand for democracy or for responsible government became a challenge to colonial sovereignty. In his view, the linkage of the "fight for responsible government" with disloyalty was solidified by the Rebellion of 1837, as reformers took up arms to finally break

5694-582: Was demolished in 1997, generating much public outcry from heritage preservationists). Talbot died in the home of George Macbeth at London, Ontario, in 1853 and is interred in the cemetery of St. Peters Anglican Church near Tyrconnell , Ontario, in Elgin County . Talbot eventually moved to London where he lived until his death in 1853. When he died in 1853, at age 82, he had been visited at his historic home on Lake Erie by General Isaac Brock, Francis Gore, Mrs. Anna Jameson, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Sir John Colborne, Chief Justice Sir John Beverley Robinson, his brother

5772-454: Was never rebuilt. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1923. Thomas Talbot had served under Lieutenant Governor, John Graves Simcoe , as personal secretary in 1793. On Talbot's behalf, Simcoe requested 2,000 hectares of land along the coastline of Lake Erie for the benefit of creating a settlement. Talbot returned to Canada from England and in 1803, landed at the spot that would become Port Talbot, and established

5850-477: Was regarded as despotic. He was infamous for registering settlers' names on the local settlement map in pencil and if displeased, was alleged to have erased their entry. However, his insistence on provision of good roads (notably the eponymous Talbot Trail ), maintenance of the roads by the settlers, and the removal of Crown and clergy reserves from main roads quickly resulted in the Talbot Settlement becoming

5928-480: Was responsible for burning the gristmill to the ground. They additionally torched a saw mill, as well as several houses and barns, killing several of the animals contained within. None of the American attackers were able to capture Talbot in the series of raids. They did, however, capture Talbot's bridge builder, Mahlon Burwell and kept him imprisoned for six months in Chillicothe, Ohio . The gristmill, destroyed in

6006-786: Was the fourth son of Richard Talbot and Margaret Talbot, 1st Baroness Talbot of Malahide (see the Baron Talbot of Malahide ). Richard Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot de Malahide and Sir John Talbot were his elder brothers. Talbot received a commission in the army as ensign before he was twelve years old, and was appointed at sixteen to aid his relative, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He saw active service in Holland and at Gibraltar. Talbot immigrated to Canada in 1791, where he became personal secretary to John Graves Simcoe , Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada . After returning to England, Talbot convinced

6084-408: Was the name of a community located west of Port Stanley , about one hour's drive south from London, Ontario , Canada , where Talbot Creek flows into Lake Erie . The village was the original commercial nucleus for the settlement which developed on 5,000 acres (20 km ) of land granted to Thomas Talbot in 1800 by the Crown along the northwestern shore of Lake Erie . The settlement was one of

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