This afternoon Jenn and I went to beautiful Perth, Ontario. Our original plan (this morning) was to go to a maple syrup farm and eat pancakes there. But sleeping and other activities pushed our departure time back so we ate breakfast here and decided to go pancaking next weekend. This weekend we were just going to go somewhere.
Perth is about an hour south west of Ottawa, near the Mississippi River (yup, it’s true) and apparently part of the Rideau Canal network that goes between Ottawa and Kingston.
We did a walking tour that I got from the interweb and I was apparently as anal about seeing the points of interest in numerical order as I was insistent on following the blue carpet through the Ottawa Home Show last night — but that’s another story for another time.
So, one of the highlights of the tour was seeing the location of the “last fatal duel” in Ontario. Apparently two law students in Perth were arguing about a teacher. One Mr. Lyon was upset about a disparaging remark that another Mr. Wilson made regarding one Ms. Elizabeth Hughes. Apparently the first volley of shots didn’t kill anyone, but after the second, Mr. Lyon lay dead. Mr. Wilson then married Ms. Hughes and everyone lived happily ever after — except the dead Mr. Lyon.
Makes you wonder where the last non-fatal duel was.
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