Conversation so far:
What happened during the early years?
Townshend's cartoons lampooning General James Wolfe in 1759 are recognized as the first examples of political cartooning in Canadian history.
What other successes were there?
John Henry Walker's short-lived weekly Punch in Canada debuted in Montreal in 1849.
Where else were the comics seen?
In 1873, John Wilson Bengough founded Grip, a humour magazine in the style of Punch and the American Harper's Weekly.

Question: Is there anything else of note during this time?
Self-contained rewrite: Other than the Canadian comics Punch and Grip, is there anything else of note during the late 1800s?