The Riot That Never Was: The Military Shooting of Three Montrealers in 1832 and the Official Cover-Up
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The Riot That Never Was: The Military Shooting of Three Montrealers in 1832 and the Official Cover-Up
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During the Montreal West by-election in 1832 that was won by Irish immigrant and newspaper editor Daniel Tracey, magistrates supporting his opponent, Stanley Bagg, called in the military on the pretence that a supposed mob was rioting. Ordered to open fire, the soldiers killed three innocent bystanders. The author argues that the riot never happened and that there was no mob when the soldiers opened fire. A Grand Jury, comprised mostly of recently arrived English-Protestant farmers, exonerated the soldiers and commanding officers.
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Montreal
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Baraka Books
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2009
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en
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Jackson, James. The Riot That Never Was: The Military Shooting of Three Montrealers in 1832 and the Official Cover-Up. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2009.
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