Eating, Drinking, and Being Married: Epidemic Cholera and the Celebration of Marriage in Montreal and Mexico City, 1832-1833
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Eating, Drinking, and Being Married: Epidemic Cholera and the Celebration of Marriage in Montreal and Mexico City, 1832-1833
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| Abstract |
The author examines the reaction to the cholera epidemic in Lower Canada in 1832, brought to the colony by Irish immigrants. As the epidemic approached, food and drink were carefully scrutinized and categorized; some of each were thought to increase the risk of sudden death from cholera. In Lower Canada, cholera exacerbated conflicts that followed the fissures of language more than religion. French Canadians felt threatened by the arrival of increasing numbers of impoverished immigrants whose emigration from Britain was sponsored by landlords and parish authorities as a way to solve social problems there.
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The Catholic Historical Review
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Vol. 92
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no. 1
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74-94
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January 2006
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en
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Stevens, Donald Fithian. “Eating, Drinking, and Being Married: Epidemic Cholera and the Celebration of Marriage in Montreal and Mexico City, 1832-1833.” The Catholic Historical Review Vol. 92, no. 1 (January 2006): 74–94.
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