THE STORY OF A DARK PLOT Or, Tyranny on the Frontier

Hardback. Reprint (1st pub. 1898). Intro' by J.H.F. Sutton. A temperance narrative set in Brome County, Quebec. It recounts the real-life attempted murder of W.W. Smith, a Canadian Pacific Railway agent and temperance advocate, by liquor sellers opposing his enforcement of the Scott Act. Attacked with a lead pipe in 1894, Smith survived, and the perpetrator, Walter Kelly, turned Queen’s evidence. The book blends factual accounts with letters from locals, highlighting the era’s prohibition struggles and moral tensions along the Canadian frontier. 198pp. small 8vo. h/back. With tiny label to fpd o/w Vg+ maroon cloth/gilt lettering.