Congrégation

1832 · Best.-Nr. 159890 — Quebec: Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan 1832-33. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. 42. 44 cm. Bound in brown cloth. Lettering on spine reads "Journals House of Assembly Lower Canada 1832-33 Appendix." New endpapers. Front free endpaper has light dampstain to bottom corner. English and French title pages have professional repair to bottom near margin. Some thumbing to pages. Certain sections have wrinkling and staining; approx. the last 60 leaves are more stained. Last 4 leaves have stuck together and last leaf has holes. Very last page of text is illegible in places due to sticking. "From the 15th November 1832 to the 3d April 1833. In the Third year of the Reign of King William the Fourth. Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Provincial Parliament of This Province." Includes reference to the May 21 election riots in Montreal. On that occasion three supporters of Daniel Tracey of the Parti Patriote were shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day it was announced that Tracey had been elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West. Appendix M approx. 140 p. of this volume pertains to correspondence concerning these events in both English and French. There was also a cholera epidemic in Quebec that year and Appendix D refers to sickness and burials at the Quarantine Station at Grosse Isle. Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan hardcover