Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

StoryNet

2012-2013 Project:

Through StoryNet, QAHN explored, gathered and presented the stories of Quebec's English-speaking communities and, in this way, contributed to a strengthening of the arts, culture and heritage of these communities.

Temperance Tempest in the Townships: Excerpt #1 from the "Private Journal of Henry Joseph Martin"

The following is an excerpt from a "Private Journal" kept by Henry Joseph Martin, a resident of Stanstead, Quebec. It is the first excerpt in a series of six to be published in Townships Heritage WebMagazine. Martin's diary, a large, leather-bound volume that has remained in private hands since it was written a century and a half ago, spans the period from 1859 to 1868.