Very little has been written about the cholera epidemics that swept
the tiny town of York, in Upper Canada (now Toronto), in 1832 and
1834. Based on fact, this is the story of a young doctor and his
wife who struggled to save lives where facilities were almost
non-existent, the only hospital had only one bathtub, pigs served
as garbage collectors in the streets, and police and fire services
were elementary. Whisky cost 25 cents a bottle. The population
doubled every few years as poor immigrants poured in. Into this
cauldron, William Lyon Mackenzie brought his ill-fated insurrection
in 1837/
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