“I have the honor, by direction of the General Commanding in Chief, to acquaint you, in reply to your letter, of the 4th of March last, that the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the battalion companies of the Thirty-fourth Regiment resuming the tuft worn by those companies, in commemoration of the action at Arroyo de los Molinos, on the 28th of October, 1811.
“I have &c.,
“(Signed) John Macdonald, A. G.
“Lieutenant-Colonel Honorable H. S. Fane,
“Commanding 34th Regiment.”
1837
The two flank companies, consisting of two captains, two subalterns, eight serjeants, two drummers, and one hundred and fifty rank and file, marched, under Captain Byron, for New Brunswick, 19th December, 1837.
On the 24th and 25th of December, they marched from St. John’s, New Brunswick, for Quebec, Lower Canada; they were conveyed on the ice of the St. John river, to the junction of the river Madawaska with the St. John, then up the river to the head of the Timiscouta Lake, in two-horse sleighs, each sleigh carrying eight men, with their arms and accoutrements: from the head of the Lake Timiscouta, they were conveyed in carioles, two men with their arms, &c., in each, across the Portage to the river St. Lawrence, and on reaching the village of St. André, they followed the course of the river to Point Levi, opposite Quebec, where they crossed in canoes, having suffered little from the severity of the weather, and the inhabitants aiding their progress in every way. The few men left at different places sick, were treated with every kindness, and were all sufficiently recovered to proceed with the head-quarters on their marching up, except two men left at Fredericton, but whose complaints were quite unconnected with the exposure of the march.
On the regiment being ordered to proceed to Canada, the following general order was issued by his Excellency Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., &c., Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
“(General order.)