On this day, May 28, 1832, Dr. Ebenezer Johnson became the City of Buffalo’s first mayor. The two term mayor presided over a city population of 10,000 that knew a total of six churches ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...