Abstract
This chapter describes the festivities and theatricals that Charles Dickens and his wife enjoyed during the tour from America to Canada, May 1842. Dickens, always incensed at any sort of injustice, spoke at a dinner in Boston of the need for legal enforcement of International Copyright. He was appealing, he said, not only on his own behalf but on that of all authors whose works were printed and sold in other countries without one penny coming to the author in royalties or any other type of payment. By the end of April, after three and a half months of incessant and often exhausting travel and festivities in all parts of the United States, they reached Canada and the Niagara Falls. In Montreal, Dickens was able to indulge in his favorite pastime, theatricals. He was in his element as he threw himself, with a crowd of other enthusiasts, into the production of some private productions at the Queen's Theatre, Montreal.
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