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After a thirty-year exile in Toronto, self-described ?mid-listing?

In mid-June 1864, the Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) was experiencing what contemporaries call ?political deadlock?: no political party could hold a majority in the Assembly.

Travel back in time to when Christmas was a simple affair: children were content to receive an apple, an orange, or a piece of barley candy in their stockings; clothes, meals, and decorations were

Bill Bailey, the rugged Liverpudlian, was now a fully-fledged Tyneside building contractor, as staunchly loyal to his squad of workmen as they were to him.