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Montreal Hunt
The Montreal Hunt is the oldest fox hunting club in North America. It was founded in 1826, by Lt.-Colonel The Hon. John Forsyth, of the Royal Montreal Cavalry.〔(Memorial of the family of Forsyth de Fronsac )〕 Now entirely Francophone, in 1983 it was renamed the Club de Chasse à Courre de Montréal.
==Early years==
From 1826, the hounds of the fledgling Montreal Fox Hunt were hired from a local butcher.〔Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal (2011) By Stéphane Castonguay, Michèle Dagenais〕 In 1829, Forsyth purchased a pack of English foxhounds from his nephew's father-in-law, Mathew Bell, Seigneur de Trois-Rivières, and was named Master of the Hunt and of the Montreal Jockey Club. Before the Confederation of Canada, its members were for the most part made up of British officers stationed or settled at Montreal. To the eye, they were a rough bunch compared to their English counterparts, as one Englishman observed in 1831: "Equipped in dirty, dingy trousers and Wellington boots (they) took their leaps in very grand style; but who ever saw good leaping without a ''clean top''?"〔Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal (2011) By Stéphane Castonguay, Michèle Dagenais〕
The officers who hunted with the club during this time included many young aristocrats who, free from the usual rigours and restraints of home, enjoyed indulging in their eccentricities which usually involved them being on horseback. One such man was the young Lord Kerr, aide-de-camp to the Governor-General Lord Elgin (another Montreal huntsman). Kerr is remembered to have ridden his Hunter, "Marmion", into the Bank of Montreal to cash a cheque. On another occasion, he rode Marmion backwards through Côte-des-Neiges under a large umbrella when there was neither sun nor rain. The villagers merrily ran behind him thinking he was part of a circus - much to Kerr's delight.〔Montreal Gazette - August 15, 1970〕
In the 1830s, the terrain on which the club hunted was very different to that of later, and particularly that of which the huntsman were used to in England. Under the Seigneurial system of New France, the farmland around Montreal was divided into narrow strips, which was not conducive to travelling far and fast. The ditches were broad and the fences too high, as one English foxhunter remarked at the time, it was "deucedly ugly country to ride over!"〔Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal (2011) By Stéphane Castonguay, Michèle Dagenais〕 The climate, which did not change, also posed a problem as snow usually fell by mid to late November, giving the club at best a three month window from the season's start in September.
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