1867The Morning ChronicleWe have before us a copy of the Telegraph, a small tri-weekly sheet, half in English and half in French, published in this city in 1837. It presents…
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Memorials and Things of Fame
1867The Morning ChronicleWe learn by a telegram from Father Point [Pointe-au-Père near Rimouski] of the destruction by fire of the Father Point Light-House and dwelling house. The oil, powder and…
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1867The Morning ChronicleIt is stated that a patient of one of the city hospitals, lately deceased, puzzled all the physicians as to the nature of his malady. After his death…
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1867The Morning ChronicleA dilapidated, but philosophical looking specimen of humanity, who had suddenly succumbed to some prostrating influence the night before last and had been found by the police reclining…
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1867The Morning ChronicleEaster, April 21st: On the afternoon of Holy Thursday, our Roman Catholic citizens as usual made the devotional round of all the churches, which, with the symbolical objects,…
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1867The Morning ChronicleOn Monday night about nine o’clock, a young man, while quietly walking on John Street a short distance outside the Gate, was brutally attacked and roughly handled by…
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1867The Morning ChronicleThe Island of Anticosti was seriously proposed as the home of a convict colony and certainly its reputation for dreariness and isolation and the dangerous character of its…
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1867The Morning ChronicleIn the eighteen fifties, the United States had more than 9,000 miles of railway lines, but Canada had only 66. So it might be said that Canada was…
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1867The Morning ChronicleOur Irish citizens have distinguished themselves this year for the heartiness and enthusiasm with which the national anniversary has been celebrated. Evidence of the joyous occasion was plentiful…
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1867The Morning ChronicleOn Monday night, the office of Mr. Fisher, broker, was entered by thieves who stole $60 in counterfeit United States notes lying in the window. Mr. Fisher was…