The life of Francis Duncan, C.B., R.A., M.P., late Director of the Ambulance Department of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem of England / with an introduction by the Lord Bishop of Chester.

  • Blogg, Henry Birdwood.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life of Francis Duncan, C.B., R.A., M.P., late Director of the Ambulance Department of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem of England / with an introduction by the Lord Bishop of Chester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    much as the Americans, there was not even a hint thrown out as to tliis opportunity of rushing into the arms of a Grand Republic, nor a mur- mur uttered as to the losses which the Canadians would sustain by living in the scene of such a war as seemed only too probable.” And what was true regarding the loyalty of Canada to the mother-country in 1862, is, I venture to think, equally so to-day. To the fortifications and other defences of the colony Duncan paid special attention, and he pointed out that as we never contemplate for Canada any other foe than the United States, the only means of defence which she need possess are those against the inroads of an enemy by land. “The great point,” he wrote, ‘in a country which, like Canada, is sealed half the year_, is the keeping up some means of com- munication between the main colony and the sea, through the harbours of the Lower Provinces, which are never closed for navi- gation. “ The expenditure on such places as Halifax and St. John would, in a long campaign, prove more useful to the cities of Canada than many a powerful fortress. For it is by these harbours that assistance would come in winter from