The Seventy-first remained stationed here for twelve months. During the summer and part of the autumn they suffered much from fever and ague, having had at one period nearly a third of the men in hospital.
1829.
Upon the 1st of June 1829, the head-quarters embarked in a steam-boat for York, now called Toronto, the capital of the Upper Province, and arrived there on the following morning.[33]
One company was detached to Niagara, another to Amherstburg, and a third to Penetanguishene on Lake Huron. A small number of men occupied the naval post at Grand River on Lake Erie. The Seventy-first occupied these posts for a period of two years.
On the 10th of August 1829, the depôt companies embarked at Gravesend for Berwick-on-Tweed.
Major-General Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B., was removed from the colonelcy of the ninety-fifth to that of the Seventy-first regiment, on the 21st of September 1829, in succession to General Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B., who was appointed to the forty-ninth regiment.
1830.
In June, 1830, the depôt companies were removed from Berwick-on-Tweed to Edinburgh Castle.
1831.