This weeks reading were discussing the use of pistol duels in Upper Canada. The events of duels were very common in Upper Canada during the early to mid 1800’s. The main reason for the duels to occur was generally to show the honour of a man regarding, class, religion, politics or another man degrading a related woman honour. Many of the supports for the duels to continue occurring were white, upperclass, anglo-american or British men. While these duels had many supporters there were also many opposers a main portion of the people opposing were women, journalists and family men. When duelling started to become popular, there was a list for rules that were established to ensure that all duels were conveyed in the same order, they were called “Clonmel Code” and it outlines 26 rules that were to be followed during all duels. During the duelling era it became very clear that the different levels of society held themselves to different standards. Many of the people who participated in these duels believed that it was the only way to show there honour. In one of this weeks reading titled “Pistoles at six o’clock” it follows the story of two men who end in a duel due to rumours that had been speed about a certain woman. The duel was purely started because of jealousy, and it ended in one for the men dying from a musket ball to the chest. When the man who survived was on trial the judge, expressed to the jury that all of the mediatory guidelines for the duel had been followed. When the jury returned with a verdict the man was dropped of all charges and was able to go back to his normal life the same day.