Description
An original Chatham Journal and Western District General Advertiser – Chatham, Canada Saturday, February 11, 1843 Volume 2 Number 22. The front page features a fully detailed descriptive chart of ‘Returns of Convictions made by the Justices in the Western District, to the 10th January, 1843’. Charges include: Dogging Pigs, Assault, Shooting on the Sabbath, Destroying P{ear Trees, Selling Spirituous Liquors Without a License, Trespass, Purchasing Articles of Soldiers Clothing, and etc etc etc… Very interesting and unique look into rural life in Canada almost 200 years ago. Fascinating articles and advertisements as well. Complete newspaper disbound from annual archive. Will be shipped rolled in a tube.
14 x 19 inches