Muddy York · event 3 of 5

1824

The first newspaper war. William Lyon Mackenzie founds the Colonial Advocate. Three years later a Tory mob throws his printing press into the harbour, and the damages he wins make him a political force.

The Muddy York era

  1. 1793
  2. April 1813
  3. 1824
  4. 6 March 1834
  5. 1837

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