DCHP-3

Shiners' War

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a protracted donnybrook involving the Shiners and other loggers, such as Canadiens, and resulting from the bellicose attitude of the former.

Quotations

1896
[The Shiners . . . were at enmity with the Canadian French nearly as much as with their Protestant fellow craftsmen, wishing the monopoly of the shanty business to be in their own hands, if that had been a possibility.]
1960
The so-called "Shiners' War" was waged between 1837 and 1845 in the woods, along the slides and in the streets of Bytown.
1964
In these years [1837-45] the so-called "Shiners' War" turned the future capital of Canada into a brawling, barbarous camp.