Editing Duel (section)

====Canada====
In [[Upper Canada]], then a British colony, [[John Wilson (Ontario politician, born 1807)|John Wilson]] killed [[Robert Lyon (duellist)|Robert Lyon]] on June 13, 1833, in [[Perth, Ontario|Perth]]. That incident is believed by some to have been the last fatal duel fought in Canada; it was certainly the last in what is now Ontario. However, several reliable sources state that the last fatal duel in what is now Canada occurred in [[Lower Canada]] (now Quebec) on May 22, 1838. The duelists were British officer Major Henry Warde and lawyer Robert Sweeney; Warde was wounded in that incident and subsequently died.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/06/13/the-last-duel-in-upper-canada/ |title=The last duel in Upper Canada |date=June 13, 2014 |publisher=[[Radio Canada International]] | access-date=June 13, 2019 |quote=This was however not the last fatal duel in what is now Canada.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://montrealgazette.com/sponsored/mtl-375th/from-the-archives-lady-rose-blossomed-after-scandal |title=From the archives: Lady Rose blossomed after scandal |date=June 13, 2014 |newspaper=The Gazette |location=Montreal |access-date=June 13, 2019 |quote=They met early the following morning, May 22, at the race track in Verdun. Pistols were raised, but only Sweeney fired. Warde fell, mortally wounded. A farmer witnessing the affair passed a sobbing Sweeney and said, 'You have had a bad beginning to the day.' It was the last fatal duel in Canada.}}</ref>