The madams at Montreal’s red light houses “are constantly endeavouring to find new victims,” the Montreal Herald reports. One young girl, however, is rescued from a life of infamy, as reported in this item from in the Quebec Daily News, November 21, 1862. Another unpleasant case has been brought to light. On Wednesday a woman […]
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Canadian Freeman, York (Toronto), Upper Canada rails against the town’s countless whore houses, one in a house controlled by a police magistrate, in this item published May 26, 1831. “And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Lord out of heaven. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, […]