Sept 18, 1885 Montreal Quebec - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Sept 18, 1841 PEI - Census shows population of Prince Edward Island to be about 50,000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 18, 1813 Detroit Michigan - US General William Henry Harrison 1773-1841 forces Proctor to evacuate Detroit and withdraw up Thames River toward Lake Ontario; catches Proctor at Moraviantown Oct. 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 18, 1759 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay 1708-1777 surrenders Quebec garrison to Townshend after Lévis withdraws to Montreal; Brigadier General James Murray takes over as Governor, and sets about repairing the defenses; his garrison of 7,000 troops has meagre rations and rapidly falls victim to illness, particularly scurvy; by April, only about 3,000 troops will be fit to fight. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 18, 1679 Green Bay Wisconsin - René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 reaches Green Bay in Lake Michigan; continues south along Wisconsin shore; orders his ship the Griffin back to Niagara with a load of valuable furs; it is never seen again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sept 18, 1830 - A race was held between a horse and an iron horse. Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America, was pitted against a real horse in a nine-mile course between Riley’s Tavern and Baltimore. Tom Thumb suffered mechanical difficulties including a leaky boiler. If you had your money on the horse, you won! Tom Thumb lost by more than a nose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Sept 18,1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse (her Indian name was Ga-is-wa-noh: the Watcher) became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe. Converse became chief of the Six Nations tribe at Tonawanda reservation in New York. She had been adopted by the Seneca tribe 7 years earlier because of her efforts on behalf of the tribe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -