HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Susanna Moodie, Working Class Culture, Imagined Communities
15 Apr 2016
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Irish immigrants brought long unsettled sectarian conflict between protestants and catholics into canada. Orange order: lodges sprung up around canada as a hostile response to huge influx of irish catholics, orange = protestant / green = catholic. Took their name of william of orange because in a battle he defeated the catholics. Battle of york point = planned riot on july 12th 1849 of organized. As they set out on their pre-planned route of demonstration. Catholics were set up to make fun and jeer at them. Catholics build an arch in the york point county low enough that the. Protestant marchers would have to lower their flags to get under it (this was a provocation just like the march was a provocation in itself) Eventually a fight broke out - a planned attack between both factions - and 12 people were killed (all of them catholics)
