This page is dedicated to some of the many people we found in the scrapbooks that were interesting, but did not have enough information about them to make a full page. 

The scrapbooks can provide a look into what was going on in Ottawa during his tenure as mayor. On March 20th, mayor Nolan and the city council were faced with an immigration crisis: people were coming into Ottawa seeking economic relief, evidently putting a considerable strain on Ottawa’s economy. It got to the point where nearby municipalities were under such strain that they refused to stop giving such relief to people immigrating to them. In response to that, Nolan decided to ensure that Ottawa would not suffer from the nearby municipalities’ decision to stop supporting those immigrants, by not supporting those immigrants that could not support themselves. The response was simple: Nolan enlisted the chief of police to turn away those who were not already residents of Ottawa and who could not support themselves financially. The article in the scrapbook that outlined Nolan’s response to the economic crisis posed by the immigrants also outlined Ottawa’s other contemporary economic woes. For one, Ottawa citizens were paying too much for rent, up to between 3 and 8 dollars more than what they should have been. Another issue Ottawa faced was that sick people were not getting the care they needed due to a lack of supplies, and so Nolan had other problems to worry about. As such, he needed a decisive answer to the immigration issue and fast, and I suggest this might have been why, at least in part, Nolan chose this particular course of action.