A genuine one - sorry, it is local.
During our independence, 1855-1933, Newfoundland was basically the Balkans. That's
barely an exaggeration. Prior to that we had the strictest penal laws in the British Empire - Protestants couldn't even give a Christmas gift to a Catholic. With independence, suddenly the wealthy, Protestant minority found itself at the mercy of the Catholic masses. Newfoundland was still pretty evenly split between the two, but Catholics were the majority in urban areas. There were SO MANY RIOTS. Parliament prohibited an entire town from voting in a national election because it had too many Catholics. There was a shooting on Water Street in St. John's on election day. Neighbouring towns burned each other to the ground (most famously Elliston and Mayberly, which is recorded here as an actual war). It was chaos, especially in the 1860s. We sacked our own Parliament - every window broken, everything not nailed down looted, the Prime Minister almost lynched.
All of this was lessened somewhat by WWI (it gave Newfoundlanders a sense of national identity. Fighting in Gallipoli and Africa did for us what it did for Australia and New Zealand. The British used us as cannon fodder, and it made us realize hey we're not just English and Irish, we're not each other's enemy, we're Newfoundlanders). But the chaos continued in many ways until the 1930s - it just wasn't as deadly. But it was as entertaining. Franks shared this with me from some French TV show:
And that's just one from thousands of similar incidents, most of them much worse, and it's an example from a relatively peaceful time in our history. So you probably didn't know it was literally
chaos here for centuries.