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SUBYIFOBS OF WATIBIOO.The presence In Canada of an officer whofought at Waterloo Is brought to mind bythe letter of a London Times correspondentwho wrote In a recent Iisne of that journal: I can add one name to the list of officers■till surviving who fought at Waterloo—that of Lient. Maurice Shea. Trne be wasnot an officer daring the battle, bat be wonhis commission by the valor be then displayed.Liat. Shea has long been a resident of LowerCanada, and, although in his 9Gth year, he was strong enough on the 20th of last Jane to attend the military celebration of the Waterloo anniversary in the drill hall at Sherbrooke, the capital of the eastern townships of Quebec. While I write another Waterloo reminiscence ocean to me. When travelling in the backwoods of Glengarry, Ontario, in the end of 1884,1 visited a Highlander named Archibald Maclanren, who had come oat with a large party of emigrants from Klllin, Loch Tay, In 1815. Mr. Mac-lanren bad been thereover SO years then, and was consequently over 100 at the lime of my visit. I foond him very deaf and quite blind, bat otherwise healthy and cheerfpl. Ills tangs seemed good for another cent dry or so(tbongh he died In the following year), and In stentorian tones be told me how, as the ship sailed out of the Clyde, the cannons on tbore were roaring oat the news of Wellington’s final victory ove^ Napoleon Bonaparte.”
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Saint Johns Evening Herald
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Mon, Oct 12, 1891
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