Episodes
Dated historical events that sit within the Order's Canadian story — riots, parades, electoral incidents, and public controversies documented from contemporary press and primary records.
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- 1883-12-26
On Saint Stephen's Day 1883, a parade of between four and five hundred Newfoundland Orangemen at Harbour Grace met a blocking crowd of Catholic Riverhead residents. In the confrontation that followed, four men were killed and seventeen injured. Nineteen men were tried in February 1884; all were acquitted. The fallout helped unseat Premier Sir William Whiteway's government in 1885.