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     of Canada, and when the information of their capitulation had 
     
     been received the first act of the Commander-in-chief was to 
     
     enquire into the state of the militia and defence of the colony. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1813 Charles D. Smith, Esq., successor to Governor 
     
     DesBarres, arrived and assumed the reins of the government. 
     
     He at once formed new militia companies and in other ways 
     
     strengthened the various posts guarding the town, putting them 
     
     in a respectable state of defence. 
     
    

    
     The militia of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were likewise 
     
     placed in a proper state of discipline, and several expeditions 
     
     were dispatched from Halifax against the State of Maine, and 
     
     in a short time the whole region from the Penobscot to the St. 
     
     Croix—comprising Eastport, Castine, Bangor and Machias— 
     
     surrendered to the British; but it was in Canada where the 
     
     grand stand was made, and severe fighting endured. There, 
     
     with the aid of a few regulars, the loyal militia repulsed large 
     
     armies of invaders, and maintained the integrity of the soil 
     
     inviolable. This year, also, Thomas Tremlett, Esq., arrived as 
     
     Chief Justice of the Island. During December, 1814, the war 
     
     with the States was brought to a close, it being settled that both 
     
     countries should give up the conquests they had made—Est”)! 
     
     qf Canada. 
     
    

    
     Meanwhile the country, undisturbed in its forest isolation by 
     
     foreign events, prospered slow but steady and, as should be 
     
     borne in mind, while the lands were being cleared and the soil 
     
     cultivated, considerable progress was also made in ship-building; 
     
     a branch of industry which apparently had been established at 
     
     an early period of the Island’s settlement, increasing in interest 
     
     year by year, until the forests ceased to supply material for the 
     
     purpose. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ In 1815 a fine vessel, called the Seven Brothers, was built 
     
     and launched at Crapaud Harbor, by the Wood Brothers of 
     
     Lot 49. As the vessel lay moored in the roadstead, awaiting 
     
     her rigging and cargo, the autumn’s frost set in unusually early, 
     
     increasing with such severity that by the middle of November 
     
     the waters of the roadstead became frozen over, freezing the 
     
     vessel so firmly in the ice that nothing in the power of the 
     
     owners could budge her; it was therefore considered best for 
     
     the time to abandon her until the opening of navigation in the 
     
     following spring, but a change in the weather took place about 
     
     the 20th of December, the wind veering‘to the southward, it 
     
    

    
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