Publisher: McMullen and Co. Brockville, Ontario 1868
Believed second edition
  613 pages -- Approx. size: 9" by 6"

Rare book on the history of Canada. Previous owner, William Watts, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario.
Endpaper, Title page show his stamp. (see photos)

Excerpt: ...Early in August Mr Galt resigned, owing to complications which arose in connexion with a school bill, giving larger privileges to the Protestant minority of Lower Canada. It failed to pass, and Mr Galt, as representing that minority, deeming it treated with injustice, unexpectedly resigned, although avowing himself still prepared to support the general policy of the Government. On the 15th of August, the Cabinet having carried all its measures with large majorities, and the public business having been fully completed, Parliament was prorogued. Towards the close of summer a most disastrous fire occurred at Quebec, by which all of the St Roch suburb and also much of the St Saveur were burned down. Only a few buildings were left standing in a district a mile long by about half a mile wide, two thousand one hundred and nineteen houses, mostly belonging to the poorer classes, were destroyed, and over twenty thousand people left homeless.

Rust colored cloth covers shows the spine rough and torn in areas but intact. The corners bumped as well. Back cover shows a water stain. Interior clean and clear but slightly toned due to it's great age.  Only very slight bumped corners. No photos, No markings.

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