Click on the picture to return to Last Trip: The Death of Alfred Bonenfant.

Most Canadian horse cab bylaws set fares based on time, distance or geographical zones, but in trying to cover every possible exception or eventuality legislators tended to make regulations too complex for practical purposes. This excerpt is from a fare schedule that takes up more than a column in the 1898-99 Ottawa directory. In practice fares devolved into flat rates that were easier to understand and offered fewer grounds for dispute. McMillan and Bonenfant were clearly haggling over a flat rate, the two amounts probably reflecting day and night fares. Source: The Ottawa City Directory, 1898-99 [Microform]…. (Ottawa, Might Directory Co. of Toronto, 1898), pp. 22-23. National Library of Canada copy via archive.org.