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Became third Earl Grey
Grey was secretary for the colonies 1830-1833, and secretary for war 1835-1841 and it was in June 1841 that he kept this journal of a military survey trip through the Township of Lower Canada. He and his company, combined business with pleasure and did considerable fly fishing for trout in the Yamaska and Pike Rivers along the way. He says fly fishing was new to the local people of Brome and they showed great interest in it.
Some places they rested were at Frelighsburg, (the City, he says, the people call it), Philipsburg, Richford Mills, Cogniac Street (this was the name for a road from the south end of Dunham Pond. (Selby Lake we call it) to East Dunham.) They stopped over at the Old Church Tavern in Churchville (later called Sweetsburg) where they had the usual Township dinner of ham and eggs. They also stopped over at Reynolds Hotel in Waterloo. They seemed to be travelling on horseback.
This man's son, the fourth Earl Grey became Governor General of Canada in 1904, (for biog: see Who's Who.)
The journal is a photostat copy from Col. Grey's Diary in the Public Archives of Canada.