TO ALL TRUE CANADIANS, 

OF WHATEVER DERIVATION, 

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED 

BY 

THE AUTHOR. 

PREFACE. 

The drama of "Laura Secord" was written to rescue from oblivion the name
of a brave woman, and set it in its proper place among the heroes of
Canadian history.  During the first few years of her residence in Canada
the author was often astonished to hear it remarked, no less among
educated than uneducated Canadians, that "Canada has no history;" and
yet on every hand stories were current of the achievements of the
pioneers, and the hardships endured and overcome by the United Empire
Loyalists.  Remembering that, as soon as she had conquered the merest