The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, Vol. 38 : Nov;, 1911 to April, 1912, Inclusive (Classic Reprint). Unknown Author
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Unconventionality invariably exercises a charm over the mind; the unusual is always fascinating. A boy will revel in the extraordinary adventures of a Robinson Crusoe. A man will delight in the secret memoirs of a court favourite or the life-story of a self-made American millionaire. The mind forever craves the eccentric, the bizarre, the out-of-the-ordinary.
Canadian history, with all its crudities and imperfections and inadequacies, presents us with at least one extraordinary and unparalleled figure - a man, about whose memory a halo of romance is becoming ever more and more pronounced. Colonel Thomas Talbot, the intimate of princes, the friend of Britain's greatest soldier, the favourite of courtiers, the associate of rulers, the descendant of an ancient and noble family, by virtue of his apparently eccentric choice of a pioneer's life in the backwoods of Ontario, immediately arouses the interest of all lovers of the unusual. By the very contrasts in his career his name will live and become ever more and more attractive to a romance-loving generation.
The fame of the old pioneer has not remained unsung all the years since his death in 1853. He has been the theme of more than one author. Only recently a novelist has skilfully introduced him as a character in one of his books. The elements of many a good story cluster round the rude log castle on the shores of Lake Erie, where the Colonel exercised almost regal sway over a wide section of country. It is not from any apprehension lest the memory of the founder of the Talbot Settlement should sink into oblivion, that the present demonstration of the romantic elements of his life is undertaken, but simply because of the compelling force of his personality, which will ever stir the historical writer to pen commentaries on his unique career.
As Goldwin Smith was to the Canada of the latter part of the nineteenth century, so was Colonel Talbot to the Canada of the early years of the same century. Not that the two men were intellectually compeers, for Talbot was no scholar, but there existed a similarity between the positions occupied by both, which cannot fail to attract the attention of students of their lives.
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