The US govt has always taken a dim view of violations of its own consulates abroad. Like when a group of (inebriated) Canadian militiamen tore down the US flag at the consulate in St Thomas, ON, in 1894, prompting late-night telegrams to DC (transcript in alt-text) #cdnhist #onthist #vexillology

Clipping from the Ingersoll Chronicle and County of Oxford Intelligencer, October 21, 1864. To the Coward! If the unmitigated scoundrel and coward who wrote, on Tuesday last, an insulting letter to a young lady residing in Ingersoll, will make himself known to her brother, the double-dyed villain and poltroon will be publicly cow-hided through the streets of Ingersoll. The brother hereby charges the writer of the letter referred to with being a coward, a blackguard, a thing unfit to live, and dares him to make himself known. Ingersoll, October 6, 1864

#otd (OK, OK, a few days earlier) in 1864, someone wrote an insulting letter to a young lady of Ingersoll, ON. Her brother was unimpressed, and threatened the "double-dyed villain and poltroon" with a "public cow-hiding." Hell. Hath. No. Fury. Full text in alt-text.

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A screenshot of the first page of a chapter in an edited collection.

The cover of the book titled Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader 2nd edition.

Thrilled to finally see my chapter in print! A great collection recently published by University of Toronto Press. #cdnhist #onthist #ruralhist