Since medieval times, few people had the right to vote (“suffrage”). Parliament was rotten, representation was unequal, and elections were corrupt. The 1800s saw three Reform Acts (1832, 1867, 1884) ...

On this day, May 28, 1832, Dr. Ebenezer Johnson became the City of Buffalo’s first mayor. The two term mayor presided over a city population of 10,000 that knew a total of six churches ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...