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Shiners' War Hist. 
a protracted donnybrook involving the Shiners and other loggers, such as Canadiens, and resulting from the bellicose attitude of the former.
- 1896 [The Shiners . . . were at enmity with the Canadian French nearly as much as with their Protestant fellow craftsmen, wishing the monopoly of the shanty business to be in their own hands, if that had been a possibility.]
- 1960 The so-called "Shiners' War" was waged between 1837 and 1845 in the woods, along the slides and in the streets of Bytown.
- 1964 In these years [1837-45] the so-called "Shiners' War" turned the future capital of Canada into a brawling, barbarous camp.
- 1896 [The Shiners . . . were at enmity with the Canadian French nearly as much as with their Protestant fellow craftsmen, wishing the monopoly of the shanty business to be in their own hands, if that had been a possibility.]