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WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE PRELUDE TO THE 1837 REBELLION Chris Raible, author of Muddy York Mud: Scandal and Scurrility in Upper Canada will be speaking to the Society on William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion of 1837. Chris is a writer, broadcaster and historical interpreter. His book was published in 1993. He will have copies for sale at the meeting at $18.00, which includes GST. He will donate $5. from each sale to the Esquesing Historical Society. Chris Raible was educated at the University of Chicago, University of Manchester and a Unitarian theological seminary associated with the University of California. As a minister (he retired from active Church duties in 1986) he served churches in the United States and Canada, as well as teaching and lecturing at various universities and colleges. In Toronto he has taught at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and served for a season as resident historian for CBC Radio's "Later the Same Day." He currently works at Mackenzie House for the Toronto Historical Board, volunteers for the Ontario Historical Society and is President of the Town of York Historical Society which operates Toronto's first Post Office. JOHN STEWART Jr. LED ESQUESING REBELS John Stewart Jr. of the 3rd Line. Esquesing Township was the leader of the reformers in Esquesing Township that thought rebellion was the way to reform. He told his story in 1890 to Judge A.B. MacCullum of the Toronto Globe. It appeared in that paper on May 17th. An excerpt showing his role in December 1837, follows. "...They assembled to the number of 60, and immediately walked across two concessions where they were to wait until I should arrive 2