From the archives: Eric McLean at Papineau house

This story was first published on Sept. 3, 1995, in the Montreal Gazette.
“About six o’clock the loyalists marched up Bonsecours Street, and it was with great difficulty that they were restrained from attacking Mr. Papineau’s house.”
So read The Gazette on Nov. 7, 1837.  Passions were running high in Montreal at the time and the first shots of the 1837 rebellion would be fired just nine days later. Had that loyalist mob truly gotten out of hand, “Mr. Papineau&r