Episode Details

In the spring of 1885, a railway worker came into Montreal feeling ill. By September, the city was known as the centre of a smallpox epidemic. Efforts to limit the spread of the disease were met with anger and, eventually, a deadly riot. Thousands died in what would become the last major smallpox epidemic in a North American city in history.

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*sources*

• Macleans Archive
• Newspapers.com
• Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature
• History of Vaccines: https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/montreal-vaccine-riot-1887/
• National Library of Medicine: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8049636/
• CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/newspaper-smallpox-1885-vaccine-1.6335345

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