Dragons in Canada
Dragons serving in the British Aerial Corps
The activities of the Aerial Corps in Canada appear to have been centred around the Halifax covert in the Colony of Nova Scotia. For example, Captain Prewitt, whom Laurence met in December 1807, and his Winchester were assigned to the Halifax covert, but from there had been stationed "on a lonely circuit out in Quebec to put [Prewitt] out of the way of anyone hearing his radical political views."
Note that at the time this conversation took place, the former Province of Quebec had not existed since it was partitioned by the Constitutional Act of 1791 into Upper Canada and Lower Canada. (The names refer to the direction of flow of the St. Lawrence River, with Lower Canada being further east.) It is not clear whether Prewitt was using the older name out of habit or referring specifically to the city of Quebec on the St. Lawrence. In any case, that this post was filled out of the Halifax covert suggests that the Aerial Corps' coverage of the eastern part of the country was fairly sparse. This is further underlined by the fact that Prewitt's Winchester had so little contact with other dragons that s/he escaped the Dragon Plague.
The Aerial Corps also maintained breeding grounds in the Colony of Newfoundland. Since St. John's on the Avalon Peninsula in eastern Newfoundland was already a thriving city, the breeding grounds were probably located in a more isolated area, possibly in the Long Range Mountains along the western coast of the island. Dragons known to have stayed at the Newfoundland breeding grounds include Praecursoris and the dragon known as Dakota.
