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278: 709: 29: 254:. A large audience assembled to hear him. When he had been speaking for somewhat more than an hour he was interrupted by violent and abusive exclamations. The interruption was the signal for action on the part of other protestors outside. A volley of stones came crashing through the windows of the church, and immediately afterwards a crowd of persons armed with bludgeons made a forcible entrance into the building. 285:
On June 9, a much more serious affray occurred at Montreal, in consequence of the delivery of a lecture there by Gavazzi. The place of delivery was Zion Church, Haymarket Square. A strong body of police were stationed opposite the church. While the lecture was in progress there was an attempt on the
294:, ordered the troops to fire upon the crowd. The order was obeyed, and five men fell dead. The firing by the troops put an end to aggression on the part of the mob. It is impossible even to approximate the number of the wounded. 257:
The principal participants were Irish Catholics who reacted violently to Gavazzi's anti-Catholic sentiments. Gavazzi attributed the failure of the Italian national movement of 1848-49 to the defection of
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On the evening of the June 6th, pursuant to previous announcement, Gavazzi proceeded to deliver a discourse in the Free Presbyterian Church, in St. Ursule Street, on the subject of the
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part of a band of Roman Catholic Irish to force their way into the church. A few minutes afterwards the latter returned to the assault, and were again driven back.
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Aspinwall, Bernard. "Rev. Alessandro Gavazzi (1808–1889) and Scottish Identity: A Chapter in Nineteenth Century Anti-Catholicism."
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Investigation of the riot proceeds at Montreal on June 26. The coroner's report deflected blame from Mayor Wilson.
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from the cause, and therefore rejected Catholicism. The Gavazzi Riot in Quebec was quelled by military forces.
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Horner, Dan. "" Shame upon you as men!": Contesting Authority in the Aftermath of Montreal's Gavazzi Riot."
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Engraving, Troops firing on the crowd, Gavazzi Riots, Montreal, QC, 1853, John Henry Walker (1831-1899)
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During the spring of 1853 Alessandro Gavazzi, an Italian patriot, visited
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Vol. III, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 396p., p. 13.
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in June 1853 by mobs which attacked halls in which ex-Catholic monk
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In February 1854, on acquittal of a Quebec rioter, Gavazzi was
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depicts the event in his work "Gavazzi riot" (1853).
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Quebec City
Montreal
Coordinates
46°48′43″N 71°12′18″W / 46.81194°N 71.20500°W / 46.81194; -71.20500
45°30′4.1″N 73°33′42.7″W / 45.501139°N 73.561861°W / 45.501139; -73.561861
EST
Alessandro Gavazzi
bludgeons
Charles Wilson
Quebec
Montreal
Alessandro Gavazzi
North America
Quebec
Montreal
Catholic
Inquisition
Pope Pius IX
burned in effigy

Charles Wilson
mayor of the city
John Dougall
Montreal Witness
James D. Duncan
"Charles Wilson, une toponymie contestable d'un ancien maire"
The Gavazzi Riots and their Consequences
Extensive resources on the Gavazzi riots
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