Montreal And The Red Death
Channel: Paige Saunders
Date: 2021-01-31

Pandemics usually play out the same way, playing on the same anxieties and exposing the same flaws in our glass castle of civilization. The smallpox pandemic of 1885 was no different, complete with yahoos, bad policing and bad communication.

Extra Content: https://www.patreon.com/PaigeSaunders
Mastodon: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige
Peertube: https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/paige
Get On The Fediverse! https://fedihost.co/
________________
References & Sources
________________
[1] https://youtu.be/pokFfm2vVhU?t=43 
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG5ZnyzI6rg 
[3] https://www.outbreak1885.com/history.html 
[4] https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature 
[5] https://www.drugs.com/slideshow/deadly-diseases-1248
[6] https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/826358104/the-1918-flu-pandemic-was-brutal-killing-as-many-as-100-million-people-worldwide 
[7] https://www.med.mun.ca/Medicine/CommunicationsNews/NewsMedicine/October-2010/Rare-books-on-display.aspx 
[8] https://www.cmaj.ca/content/161/12/1543
[9] 1885-1798
[10] https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/assets/history/book/history-book-print_all_e.pdf 
[11] https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/04/28/anti-vax-vaccination_n_16296618.html 
[12] https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2020/08/03/witnessing-history-through-parish-registers-the-1885-smallpox-epidemic/ 
[13] Daily Witness September 28 1885 p3
[14] http://coolopolis.blogspot.com/2013/09/montreal-mythbuster-were-we-really-so.html 
[15] https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature 
[16] https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1991/10/28/tragedy-of-errors 
[17] https://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/bitstream/handle/11143/16028/007_MacDougal_Monnais.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y (Dr William Bessy)
[18] https://www.outbreak1885.com/history.html
[19] Bliss, Michael, Montréal au temps du grand fléau : l'histoire de l'épidémie de 1885, Montréal, p. 255
[20] http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/emery_coderre_joseph_11E.html 
[21] https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature
[22] http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcshane_james_14E.html
[23] http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/democratie/democratie_en/expo/maires/beaugrand/index.shtm 
[24] Montreal Daily Witness, September 28th, 1885 (Was it 29th)
[25] https://montrealrampage.com/1811-the-montreal-herald-other-quebec-curios/
[26] http://querythepast.com/french-canadians-epidemic-1885/
[27] Daily Witness September 29, 1885 pg8 
[28] https://newrepublic.com/article/144739/liberals-get-wrong-identity-politics 
[29] http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/sel/sypre-consultation/afficherpdf?idDoc=23322&typeDoc=1 
[30] https://cliniquealtermed.com/en/therapies/homeopathy/ 
[31] https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2005_atlantic_storm/flash/pdf/issues_0900_a.pdf