Tag: Edward Price of Wales
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Canada Seventy Years Ago, or, Prince Edward’s Visit to Niagara by J. P. Merritt
Jedediah Prendergast Merritt wrote a long poem on Prince Edward’s visit to Canada in 1860, bound with a number of other poems that he wrote. This page contains the introduction to the poem, and the parts relevant to the Niagara area. The complete book can be viewed here on the Hathi Trust website Introduction Through…
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Visit of the Prince of Wales to Laura Secord by Sarah Anne Curzon
(Chippawa, 1860) Laura Secord poem poetry Now wherefore trembles still the string By lyric fingers crossed, To Laura Secord‘s praise and fame, When forty years are lost? Nay, five and forty, one by one, Have Borne her from the day When, fired with patriotic zeal, She trod her lonely way. Her hair is white, her step…