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ex n 01 18 A CYCLOPEDIA OF Before Them," " Matrimonial Speculation," law. He represented Norfolk in the Par- and other works of a more or less fictitious liament of Upper Canada, and about six character. It may be said here that after months before his death, which occurred on eight years of travail in the woods, Mrs. the 8th of January, 1844, he was called to Moodie received the glad tidings that her the Legislative Council. Robert, the sub- husband had been appointed Sheriff of the ject of this sketch, entered the practice of County of Hastings. In a late edition of law in 1825, in the well known firm of Bald- " Roughing it in the Bnsh," brought out by win & Son, continuing this calling through Messrs. Hunter, Rose & Co., Publishers, his political career till 3848, when he re- Toronto, Mrs. Moodie writes a preface re- tired. He made his entry into public lif e by counting the social, industrial, educational being elected as the Liberal candidate for and moral progress of Canada, since the the Upper Canada Assembly in 1829, in op- time of her landing. After Mr. Moodie's position to Mr. Smsll, the henchman of the death at Belleville, in 1869, Mrs. Moodie Family Compact. The whole influence of made her home in Toronto with her younger the placemen was used against Mr. Bald- j aon, Mr. R. B. Moodie ; but on his removal win, and William Lyon Mackenzie, who,;:, -with all Ms rashness and roughness, was to a new residence out of towa, Mrs. Moo- 1 die remained with her daughter, Mrs.
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