28 March-1 April 1918: Four days of rioting in Quebec City, including the exchange of gunfire between rioters & federal troops sent in to restore order, left five dead & over a hundred fifty injured; the internecine violence resulted from anti-conscription sentiments stirred up by the Military Service Act, 1917 & the boiling over of simmering ethnic tensions betwixt Anglo-Canadians & Franco-Canadians.
Lest we forget.
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