Lot 534
Four Documents Relating to the Fenian Raids, 1866-1870
Lot 534 Details
Four Documents Relating to the Fenian Raids, 1866-1870
1) Autograph Telegraph Notice Signed by J. (John) Whitmore, Grand Trunk Railway Agent, Buffalo, NY, May 28, 1870, written in quill on passenger manifest:
Transcription:
Buffalo G.T.R. To Agent Geo. R.
11:40pm
Please advise Military immediately that British Consul here expects Fenians to cross somewhere near Niagara frontier
28.5.70
J. Whitmore, Agent
2) Town of St. Catharines budget ledger 'For Provisions and of necessaries furnished the Volunteers while at the Front during the Fenian raid in June 1866, quill on four pages, blue lined paper, signed by Mayor Thomas Burns
3) The Canadian Gazette Extra, February 20, 1869, 12 pp., with a bilingual list of militia volunteers, signed in print by Lt. Col. Walker Powell, D.A.G. Militia
4) Globe Extra newspaper broadside, Sunday Evening, June 3 [1866]
Estimate $300-$400
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Note:
Whitmore served as an agent at the Buffalo Grand Trunk Railway station from 1867-1874.