This is a story of the early days of election campaigning in Nova Scotia. Historian Brian Cuthbertson describes the province's first ninety years of hard-fought elections from 1758-1848.
He describes an era when there were no secret ballots and voting was a spectator sport. Property owners voted by declaring their choice on a hastily erected platform before a sheriff and assembled crowd. Political supporters were often bribed with rum to intimidate those voting for other candidates. Merchants jostled for power by forcing their debtors to vote for them. Lawyers fiercely competed wih other lawyers to get elected, often carrying their rivalries into the courtroom.
Johnny Bluenose at the Polls revives the furious election battles of yesteryear, showing the issues at stake to be more familiar than we might like to think.
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