1885: Montreal's Annus Horribilis

Speaker: Robert N. Wilkins
When: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 19:30 to 21:00
Where: Centennial Hall,
             288 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield, H9W 4A4
Lecture in English followed by a bilingual question period.

Our speaker, Robert N. Wilkins, will highlight different events of 1885 in Montréal, including the Winter Carnival, the Election of Honoré Beaugrand as Mayor of Montréal, the Spring Floods, the Smallpox Epidemic and the Hanging of Louis Riel.

Born in Montreal in 1947, Robert N. Wilkins was educated at Concordia University, Carleton University, and McGill University. High school teacher in the Montreal area for some 35 years, he was also a contributor to the Quebec Family History Society quarterly Connections, The  Westmount Examiner, The Suburban, The Montreal Gazette, and, occasionally, other national newspapers as well. He published the books Montreal, 1909 (Shoreline Press, in 2017), Montreal Recorder’s Court, 1906 (in 2020), and Grandad’s Montreal, 1901 (in 2022).

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