The early years of Confederation both appalled and titillated Canadians with perhaps the country’s most sensational—or sensationalized—political corruption and scandals. John A. Macdonald urgently called on industrialized Hugh Allen for “another ten thousand” dollars in secret election campaign funds (the total came to $350,000) before awarding Allen’s syndicate the contract to build the […]
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Fatal blast dampens Compact meeting
A reform newspaper unleashes its most vitriolic prose in a report of a meeting by supporters of Upper Canada’s Family Compact. The meeting, however, comes to a shattering end. From the Hamilton Free Press, April 12, 1832, reprinted in the Brockville Recorder, April 26. We understand a meeting was called at the Village of Victoria, […]