Peter Aylen & The Shiners' War
The early days of Canada's future capital were plagued with violence and anarchy. One group in particular, the Shiners, wreaked havoc on its citizens. Bytown was a lawless place and the Shiners ran the town. #Ottawa #OttawaHistory #OttawaPast #Bytown Continue reading on Forgotten Ottawa: https://forgottenottawa.ca/stories/sh... Created and narrated by: Kevin Ballantyne / @kevinballantyne9371 https://www.kballantyne.ca/ Sources: 1. The Historical Society of Ottawa. "The Shiners' War". https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.c... 2. Cotton, Larry D. Whiskey and wickedness. No. 1, Rideau River Valley of Carleton, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Counties. Lanark, ON: Larry D. Cotton Associates, 2007. Accessed from https://archive.org/details/whiskeywi... 3. WHC-CPO Workers' Heritage Center - Centre Patrimoine Ouvrier. "The Shiners' War". http://whc-cpo.ca/shinerswar_e.html 4. Schneider, Stephen. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Accessed at https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZO8j... Image Sources: 1. Library & Archives Canada 2. Wikimedia Commons 3. A Brief History of Bytown - Run Ottawa, https://www.runottawa.ca/a-brief-hist... 4. Image: Bytown in 1853, https://kids.kiddle.co/Image:Bytown_i... 5. https://heritagepassages.ca/recherche...
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