Plague

In January 1885, as the people of Montreal celebrated one of the greatest winter carnivals of the century, a deadly epidemic inched its way through the city streets. When the case of a railway porter suffering from smallpox was gravely mishandled, what followed was a "e;carnival of death"e; causing the preventable demise of over 3,000 Montrealers.In Plague, historian Michael Bliss uncovers one of ...