1866 in Canada

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Events from the year 1866 in Canada.

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Historical Documents

Sarnia, Canada West guards against Fenian attack [4]

Charge given by a Canada West judge to a grand jury in the Fenian invaders case [5]

U.S. President Andrew Johnson hopes Canadian courts will show mercy to condemned Fenians [6]

Washington learns Fenian invaders' death sentences are to be commuted [7]

References

  1. Sherwin, Allan L. (2012). Bridging two peoples : Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843-1909. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9781554586332. OCLC 806521138.
  2. Fetherling, Douglas (2008). "John Wesley Dafoe". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  3. Niosi, Jorge (2008). "Edward Rogers Wood". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  4. "Letter, Newton Wolverton at Sarnia, Ont. to brother Alonzo Wolverton at Wolverton, Ont., February 2, 1866," Examples of Wolverton Family Letters from Darroch Donation, Archives of Ontario. Note: scroll to bottom of page; accessed 9 September 2018 http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fenians/darroch_acquisition.aspx
  5. Trials of the Fenian Prisoners at Toronto, Who Were Captured at Fort Erie, C.W., in June, 1866 (Toronto: Printed at the Leader Steam-Press, 1867), pg. 3. Accessed 9 September 2018 http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/5641327?n=5&s=4
  6. "...from the President of the United States," Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873; Monday, December 3, 1866, pgs. 16-17. Accessed 9 September 2018 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(sj0593)):#0590016
  7. United States Department of State, "Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward," Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives, during the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress, 1867-'68 (1867-1868), pg. 181. Accessed 9 September 2018 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS186768v01.p0249&id=FRUS.FRUS186768v01
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