Posts tagged Poison

Wolfers

On a winter's day in 1873, Canadian Donald Graham found himself in an armed standoff with a man remembered now only as “The Bigheaded Dutchman.”

ArticleCarolyn BenMay 18, 2021Fort Whoop-UpFort Whoop-Up, Furs, Pelts, Wolf, Wolves, Trapping, Poison, Strychnine, Animals, Trade, Donald Graham, Firewater, Hugh Dempsey, Southern Alberta, FortComment

War on Grasshoppers: “Just gas them!”

The Lethbridge Herald reported in 1920 that O. R. Gould, a then newly-elected MP from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, had proposed use of a poisonous gas, similar to chlorine gas used in the First World War, to exterminate grasshoppers in western Canada.

ArticleAndrew ChernevychApril 21, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrasshopper, Farm, Gas, Poison, Parliament, SaskatchewanComment