The Riot that Never Was: The Military Shooting of Three Montrealers in 1832 and the Official Cover-up - Softcover

"The title of this excellent study reveals the formidable problem addressed: prove that no riot was taking place on St. James Street in Montreal when the British troops opened fire. (...) The Riot that Never Was provides a striking portrayal of mid-nineteenth-century Montreal: the vigorous debates that raged in Patriote and Conservative newspapers, the hot fighting during elections that often degenerated into open conflict between the Canadiens, the Irish, and the English, and the recurrent epidemics like the cholera epidemic in 1832. (...) Jackson brilliantly establishes the exact course of events on May 21. (...) This work is definitely an excellent opportunity to revisit that feverish period in the history of democracy in Canada."- Charles Turgeon, Cahiers d'histoire, Vol. XXVVIII, No. 2, Winter 2010

"In May of 1932, events related to a by-election pitting a Irish-born candidate over the English party candidate in Montreal, Canada, that led to the deaths of three French Canadian men at the hands of British regulars has long been termed a riot by generations of historians. This book's reconstruction of events, based on the proceedings of an investigation conducted by the House Assembly of the Province of Lower-Canada, contemporary news accounts, and the voting pollbook, overturns that assessment and concludes that the deaths of Francois Languedoc, Pierre Billet, and Casimir Chauvin were completely unjustified and that, in fact, there never was a riot that day in Montreal." (Annotation (c)2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)