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The Pale Horse of Smallpox (August–October)
From: Sir John A. MacDonald & the Apocalyptic Year 1885
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In this chapter, Dutil traces the devastating 1885 smallpox epidemic in Montreal, revealing how the disease tore through francophone and anglophone communities and killed over 5,800 people across Quebec.
Contributors
Patrice Dutil
Patrice Dutil is the author or editor of a dozen books, a frequent commentator on political and policy issues, and the host of over 100 podcasts in the Canadian history series “Witness to Yesterday.” He is a professor in the department of politics and public administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. He founded and for five years edited the Literary Review of Canada and served as president of the Champlain Society for seven years. He is a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Among his books are Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election, Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier and Borden and Macdonald at 200: New Perspectives and Legacies (edited with Roger Hall).
