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"Hy, yi, old Pickaroon!" came a child's shrill voice from a mill window. "There's a tramp under your tree." The old man raised his head from his work at the rack. "You must not come on dis place," he cried, with a strong French-Canadian accent. "Who says so?" inquired the stranger, putting his back against the tree and stretching out his legs. "I Etienne Provancher."
When Baldwin, who had been given a seat in the Executive Council, demanded in 1841 that this body should be reconstructed in such a way as to include some French-Canadian members and to exclude the Family Compact men, Sydenham flatly refused. Baldwin then resigned and went into opposition, but Sydenham unwillingly played into his hand.
Although, from his name, as from his strong accent, it was evident that old Jombatiste belonged, by birth, to our French-Canadian colony, he never associated himself with that easy-going, devoutly Catholic, law-abiding, and rather unlettered group of our citizens.
It is probable that while in captivity he acquired the power of commanding the Indians' interest and learned the secret of ruling them two capabilities few white men ever possessed. It is certain that he, like the noted French-Canadian Joucaire, delighted to sit round the camp fires and to go into the council-lodge and talk to the assembled Indians.
During the eighteenth the boat gained steadily on the canoe, which was more and more confined to the Indians. The local craft in chief civilized use on both sides during the fight for Canada was the bateau; and the best crews then and afterwards were the French-Canadian voyageurs. But everywhere beyond the immediate spheres of French and British influence the canoe was universal.
But the internal quarrel was irreconcilable. Hincks was defeated by a combination of Tories and dissatisfied Reformers, and a general reconstruction of parties followed. Sir Allan MacNab, as leader of the Conservative opposition, formed an alliance with the French-Canadian members of the Hincks government and with some of its Upper Canadian supporters.
"I am led to believe," wrote Metcalfe in 1845, "that the influence of the clergy is not predominant, among the French-Canadian people, and that the avocat, the notary, and the doctor, generally disposed to be political demagogues, and most of them hostile to the British government, are the parties who exercise the greatest influence.
Here, if ever, must be the man I was in search of. "You are a French-Canadian, I suppose?" "Yes, Sir, I am dat." "And where do you live?" said I. "I work in de mill; de largess mill in the Chaudiere. You know dat great water, the fall under the bridge, dat we call the Chaudiere." "I know it well," said I, "but I have never gone properly over any of the mills.
"Guess there's one man who's got Jake's measure, an' that's Black Anton." The butcher added a punctuating laugh, while Slum nodded. "And who's Black Anton?" asked Tresler of the saloon-keeper. "Anton? Wal, I guess he's Marbolt's private hoss keeper. He's a half-breed. French-Canadian; an' tough. Say, he's jest as quiet an' easy you wouldn't know he was around.
He was a French-Canadian, and a particularly bad speaker of the English language. We offer no apology for this elaborate introduction of Henri, for he was as good-hearted a fellow as ever lived, and deserves special notice. But to return.
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