Office of the Annexation Association. Montreal, December 7, 1849.
The Montreal Annexation Association, desirous of urging upon the people of Canada the
question of peaceable separation from Great Britain, and of Annexation to the United States,
have instructed us to forward to you a copy of the Address to the People of Canada already
published, together with other documents showing the steps that have been taken by the
Association in this City. They have done this in the hope that you are favourable to the cause for
which this Association has been founded, and disposed to co-operate with them by exertion in
your own neighbourhood. This might be done by the organization of similar Associations for
Counties, Townships or Parishes throughout Canada, or by other means, which may suggest
themselves to you as most suitable for your own locality.
We are directed, at the same time, to request from you any information which you may be
disposed to communicate, and which may be of advantage to the cause, and to state that this
Association will be happy to furnish you with similar information calculated to promote our
mutual object, as it is important that regular communications should be kept up among the
friends of the cause throughout the country.
R. Mackay, A. A. Dorion, Secretaries.