A SKETCH NEAR THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES.
DEDICATED TO LOWER CANADA, AS A SAMPLE OF WHAT THE BEEF AND BEER OF
TORONTO HAVE DONE FOR ONE OF HER GREAT MEN.
Punch in Canada, 1849.
UP GOES THE DONKEY.
This was the first of a series of cartoons which appeared in Toronto, in 1858, in connection with the election contest between Mr. John Beverley Robinson and Mr. George Brown, for the representation of the city of Toronto in Parliament. Mr. Bowes was Mayor for several years. He was Mr. Robinson’s “right hand man” in the campaign, though, with a not over-friendly hand the artist represents the candidate as occupying a secondary position throughout. This was the occasion of Mr. Robinson’s first entry into parliamentary life. This, and the five following cartoons are inserted as an illustration of the manner in which public questions were caricatured in those days.
Fly Sheet, 1858.