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the son of the attorney general
Charles Heward was not the attorney general’s son. Contemporary and later sources identify him as Stephen Heward’s son and the attorney general’s nephew.
Full reasoning
A contemporary account of the riot published by William Lyon Mackenzie identifies Charles R. Heward as “son to ... the Auditor General of Land Patents, nephew to the Attorney General.” In the same document, Stephen Heward is separately identified as the father to Charles and Henry Heward. A later historical account by John Charles Dent likewise describes Charles Heward as “a son of Colonel Stephen Heward.”
So the relationship in the article is misstated: Charles Heward was not the attorney general's son. He was the son of Stephen Heward and the nephew of Attorney General John Beverley Robinson.
2 sources
- The History of the Destruction of the Colonial Advocate Press
“MR. CHARLES R. HEWARD ... son to ... the Auditor General of Land Patents, nephew to the Attorney General”
- The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion
“Charles Heward, a son of Colonel Stephen Heward”