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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sailed for Europe (search)
d that the English Government are inaugurating active measures for the defence of the Canadian frontier. No naval armament is contemplated, but various points on the Lake coast will be fortified. Admiral Bayfield, noted as having been heretofore engaged in the survey of the Lakes and the river St. Lawrence, will shortly arrive in Canada, and will determine the location of the fortifications. Preliminary surveys are already in progress, under Col. Whittingham, of the Royal Engineers, Captain Collinson (who was one of the party in search of Sir John Franklin,) and Hon H. H. Killsby, of the Board of Canadian Public Works, assisted by Government Engineers Wyse and Turner. All of the harbors from Sault St. Marie to Amherstburg have already been visited, and it is believed that Ronde d'eau, in the county of Kent, Unper Canada, will be prepared as a naval rendezvous. At this point, directly north of Cleveland, there is an excellent harbor. The troops in the garrison at Toronto have bee