Punch in Canada, September, 1849.]
PAWNING THE FLAG.
Mr. Benjamin Holmes was one of the Members for Montreal in the first Parliament after the Union, and was amongst the most active public men of the time. In 1849 he was an advocate of Annexation, and subsequently voted for the reception of an address in favor of Canadian Independence. His Annexation proclivities are hit off in the cartoon, which represents him as pawning the British flag to Brother Jonathan.
Punch in Canada, October 10th, 1849.
LITTLE BEN. HOLMES
AND SOME NAUGHTY CHILDREN ATTEMPT TO PAWN THEIR MOTHER’S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, BUT ARE ARRESTED BY POLICEMAN PUNCH, WHO WAS STATIONED “ROUND THE CORNER.”
Punch in Canada, 1849.