In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...
Life in the West wasn’t easy. Those who chose to leave the comforts of Back East in favor of the rigors of the West did not make the decision to do so haphazardly. During most of the 19th ...
The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the 19th century. Starting in 1819, a series of cholera pandemics spread the ...
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