Item: The Quebec Dilemma

Digitized page of Canadian Illustrated News for Image No.: 71850
Title:
The Quebec Dilemma
Artist:
Unknown
Date:
1879-01-25
Description:
A cartoon depicting Luc Letellier, Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, hanging to the side of a cliff while Sir John A. Macdonald tells him to hang on to a branch named "Clause 58 and 59 of the Constitution". The cartoon is a reference to the constitutionality of Letellier's decision to dismiss the Premier of Quebec.
Pagination:
vol.XIX, no. 4. 49
Date:
1879-01-25
Remark:
"For Heaven's sake, don't shove me over, Johnny." -- "Be easy, old boy. I won't shove you over nor pull you up. Hold on to these branches and you may save yourself yet."
Item Number:
4532
Date modified: