CHAPTER IV.
THE LANDING IN CANADA--PRELIMINARY OPERATIONS OF THE FENIAN FORCES NEAR FORT ERIE--ADVANCE INTO THE INTERIOR.
About half-past three o'clock on the morning of June 1st the peaceful shores of Canada were reached by the invaders.

The embarkation was made at Pratt's Iron Furnace Dock on the American side, and the landing took place at what was then known as the Lower Ferry Dock, about a mile below the village of Fort Erie.

Just as the boats struck the shore, the color-bearers of Col.

Owen Starr's 17th Kentucky Regiment sprang on to Canadian soil and unfurled their Irish flags amid terrific cheering by the Fenian troops.

This was the first intimation that the people of the quiet vicinity received that an invasion had actually occurred, and it was a terrible awakening from peaceful slumber to most of them.