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A Game of Cards. Partie de cartes. Corneilius Krieghoff, LAC C-011003, 1848




Activities at a Clallam Mat Lodge Village near Fort Victoria, John Linton Palmer, 1851, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




Faro by J. D. Borthwick, 1851, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




Yankee Notions, New York, 1852




Devil seated at a gambling table, satirical print, 1860 to 1870, British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




Gambling and Cree Indians celebrating a Dog Feast. Rupert's Land 13 Sept. '57. Jeu et Indiens cris à un festin de chien. Terre de Rupert, 13 septembre 1857. George Seton, LAC Acc. No. 1950-63-1.9R, 17 April 1862



"These fools [gold rush miners] . . . have learnt that the chances are always so thoroughly in favour of the gaming-house proprietors that the loss of the gambler's money and the gain of the gaming-house proprietor is only a question of time… a man might as well chuck is gold back into the creek as pitch it on the gaming table; gaming is the miners' curse all the world over… Professional gamblers track the successful miner as the carrion crow scents the dead on a battlefield."
                          Cariboo The Newly Discovered Gold Fields of British Columbia, 1862











L'opinion publique journal illustré, Montréal, 3 November 1881



 









Slim Jim, or The Parson Takes the Pot, Rowland Lee, BC Archives PDP02292, 1892
"Slim Jim a noted gambler is represented in the painting, in the garb of a parson, one of his favourite disguises. With his usual good luck he takes the pot."




Albert Guillaume,1890s?, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




                                      THE  UNWILLING  CONFEDERATE
Congress ought to take Uncle Sam out of this shameful position by passing the anti-lottery bill.
Judge, New York, 23 August 1890, Wikimedia Commons









EVICTING  THE   GAMBLERS.
When Montreal is rid of its "gamblers," Le Canard will point out other thieves to kick out.
Le canard, Montréal, 13 May 1899

























Life, New York, 3 December 1908





The start of the race, Kelowna, British Columbia.G.H.E. Hudson, LAC PA-029614, 1909














 




Sunday laws in force in Ontario, Toronto Reference Library 1911. Sunday Laws. 5, 1911




Puck, New York, 24 Aug 1912









The British Columbia Federationist, Vancouver, 10 July 1914





Gambling, Hy Myer, Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-28085, 12 September 1914




Horse races on Main Street in Lillooet, VPL 20708, 1 July 1919




New York World, reprinted Cartoons magazine, Chicago, October 1920



 



 








New Masses, New York, September 1928











 


  










 






 











 



 



 











 















     































 






 







 











Timbrell, [Ed Broadbent NDP, Joe Clarke Conservative, Pierre Trudeau Liberal]. McGill Daily, Montreal, 31 January 1980







 










 





George Shane, 1989?, LAC


The Lance, Windsor, 25 October 1993




 





   




   

"From the moment a government encourages its citizens to finance the state by gambling¬¬––instead of through creativity, work and productivity, that state is in an unacknowledged crisis."
                                                         John Ralston Saul, The Daughter's Companion.