A talk by David Beasley to the members of the Waterloo Historical Society on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 and at the Erb St Mennonite Church, Waterloo, Ontario and to members of the Markham Historical Society on Monday April 11, 2005 at the Baptist Church at the Markham Museum, Markham, Ontario. (18p. 2 illus)
Author: David R. Beasley
ISBN:0-915317-19-2
Paper: $4.00 Cdn & US
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This talk follows the talk by David Beasley in 2002 printed in the pamphlet Richard Beasley, the Character of the Man and his Times which dealt with the influences of Albany, N.Y. and the American Revolution on Richard in his efforts to build a new civilization from the Upper Canadian wilderness and his political career. This second talk concentrates on Richard Beasley's experiences as a land speculator in the 1790s and the first decade of the 1800s. He was unjustly blamed for misleading the settlers when the real culprits were government officials who schemed to control the Indian nations and who feared, not without cause, the republican intentions of American speculators to expropriate parts of Upper Canada in conjunction with Napoleon's French agents who planned to sieze Lower Canada (Quebec). The main protagonists in these political machinations were Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, William Berczy, Chief Joseph Brant, William Claus of the Indian Department, and Aaron Burr, Vice-president of the United States.
