CANADIAN CONNECTION

Displayed here are items of a Canadian nature which have an association with Abraham Lincoln. Of some note in this area are the accounts of a number of Canadians, mostly Montrealers, who had a direct link with Lincoln's assassins. It is no secret that there were Confederate sympathizers in British North America, especially in Montreal. During the 1867 trial of John H. Surratt, the son of Mary Surratt, several Montrealers were called to testify in Washington as to his behaviour and political activities while resident in Montreal and vicinity, prior to, and after Lincoln's assassination.

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