The burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal occurred on the night of April 25, 1849, and is a crucial event in the development of the Canadian democratic tradition. The St. Anne's Market building lodging the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada was burned down by Anglo-Protestant rioters in retaliation for the Rebellion Losses Bill while the members of the Legislative Assembly were sitting in session.
Read more about Burning Of The Parliament Buildings In Montreal: Parliament Moved To Montreal, Economic Crisis, Rebellion Losses Bill, Mob Attacks Parliament, Damages, First Series of Arrests, Continuation of Violence Until May, Case Before Westminster, Second Series of Arrests, Capital Moves To Toronto
Famous quotes containing the words burning, parliament and/or buildings:
“But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my
water-trough
And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth?”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)