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The Military Reign of Terror Part II

When lawyer Joseph Dubuc stepped outside the courthouse on Main Street near Upper Fort Garry, he didn’t expect to be a victim of violence arising from animosity that had contributed to a riot during the previous year’s federal election. Yet, emboldened by alcohol and waiting outside the courthouse was the man who would eventually become [...]

The Military Reign of Terror

Schultz from running through the village crying, ‘Death to the Pope! Death to Catholics! Death to the Half Breeds! Death to the priests! and from burning Donald Smith in effigy.”
Using the nom de plume Veritas, a Manitoba man wrote the St. Paul Press in Minnesota on November 6, 1870, that the English soldiers had come [...]