4 - Francis Evans Cornish
Sources
Begg, Alexander. Ten Years in Winnipeg (1879).
Cherney, Bruce. “Election Riot of 1872”, Winnipeg Real Estate News. Part 1 | Part 2
Cherney, Bruce. “Political Mudslinging,” Winnipeg Real Estate News. Part 1 | Part 2
Cherney, Bruce. “Winnipeg’s First Council Meeting”, Winnipeg Real Estate News. Part 1 | Part 2
Schroeder, Declan. “The Cornish Connundrum”, Winnipeg Free Press, Oct 18th 2020.
Swan, Ruth. “Francis Cornish – The Man”, Manitoba History, Number 9, Spring 1985.
Ronaghan, Allen. “James Farquharson – Agent and Agitator”, Manitoba History, Number 17, Spring 1989.
Death, Disaster and Disgrace in Victorian London: Francis Evans Cornish.
City of Winnipeg 1874 Council Minutes.
Preliminary Investigation into the Trial of Ambrose D. Lepine, 1874.
We briefly talked about Lord Gordon Gordon, you can listen to our episode on him here.
Buckle up folks, it’s the big moment: Winnipeg is about to become a city. And rushing headfirst to the mayoral race is Francis Evans Cornish, local lawyer and known drunk. Surely everything will go well.
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