HIST 1500Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fenian Raids, Irish Canadian, Innocent Victims
Document Summary
The terror of the green ghost : the fenian raids, 1866-70. Irish flag was designed due to green for the catholics, orange for the protestants and white to represent peace in between. Increased budget for militia and troops were called out day they would be attacked: canadians saw themselves as innocent victims of fenians terror. Illustrated the fenian efforts were beginning to lose steam: didn"t have many soldiers, not enough support, not enough leadership, not enough weapons. Impact of the raids: ordinary people, created a new-found sense of patriotism in canada, emerged because of the fenians (attacked in new brunswick, quebec and. Part 2 the meaning of mcgee"s assassination, the fenians and the making of canada. Trial and execution of james patrick whalen: mcgee had become an enemy of the fenians, had been killed with a bullet to the head outside his border house (sparks street) after a speech at the house of commons.
