At the end of the episode, titles mention that U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York in 1901 but does not name the murderer. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was the assassin and claimed that he was motivated to shoot the President after hearing Emma Goldman speak.
The phrase "Peace, order and good government" used by Terrence Meyers are the words used in the Candadian Constitution Act to define the Canadian Parliament's lawmaking authority in relation to provincial authority.
It has come to be considered the Canadian counterpart to the United States' "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in what was then Kovno in the Russian Empire but is today called Kaunas, Lituania. She emigrated to Rochester, New York in 1885.
This episode takes place in 1899.