Hanging In Canada
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Drop Dead
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Author : Lorna Poplak
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2017-07-29
Drop Dead written by Lorna Poplak and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-29 with True Crime categories.
Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada. Take a journey through notable cases in Canada’s criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada’s most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will also encounter other memorable characters, including the man who was hanged twice and the gun-toting bootlegger who was the only woman every executed in Alberta. Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada illustrates how trial, sentencing, and punishment operated in Canada’s first century, and examines the relevance of capital punishment today. Along the way, learn about the mathematics and physics behind hangings, as well as disturbing facts about bungled executions and wrongful convictions.
The Practice Of Execution In Canada
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Author : Ken Leyton-Brown
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2010-04-10
The Practice Of Execution In Canada written by Ken Leyton-Brown and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-10 with History categories.
It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of execution can be seen as a crucial social institution. Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition. Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism.
Double Trap
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Author : John Melady
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2005-09-17
Double Trap written by John Melady and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-17 with History categories.
A dozen years before the Black Donnellys were butchered at Lucan, Ontario, another murderous rampage took place a few miles away. On June 6, 1868, three men robbed and killed a rich farmer, his wife, and her unborn child. They concocted an alibi, stuck to it, and almost got off. In fact, two of them did. The third, Nicholas Melady, went to prison and fell in love with a beautiful woman in a nearby cell. There to entrap him, she listened, learned, and led him to the gallows. When he was hanged in Goderich, hundreds watched, but thousands were late for the spectacle. They were bitterly disappointed because they had missed the last public hanging in Canada.
Hanging In Canada
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Author : Frank W. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Frontier Books
Release Date : 1982
Hanging In Canada written by Frank W. Anderson and has been published by Surrey, B.C. : Frontier Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Capital punishment categories.
Hanging In Canada A Concise History Of Capital Punishment In Canada
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Author : Frank W. Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Hanging In Canada A Concise History Of Capital Punishment In Canada written by Frank W. Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Capital punishment categories.
Walk Towards The Gallows
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Author : Tom Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-02-11
Walk Towards The Gallows written by Tom Mitchell and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-11 with History categories.
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'
Last Moments
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Author : Dale Brawn
language : en
Publisher: Quagmire Press
Release Date : 2011
Last Moments written by Dale Brawn and has been published by Quagmire Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Capital punishment categories.
Before the final execution in 1962, more than 700 men and women were executed by hanging in Canada. Legal scholar Dale Brawn shines a light into a dark corner of Canadian history with dramatic stories of the condemned and their last moments.
The Hanging Of Ang Lique
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Author : Afua Cooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2007
The Hanging Of Ang Lique written by Afua Cooper and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
New light is shed on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada through this portrait of slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, who in 1734 was arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for starting a fire that destroyed more than forty Montreal buildings. Simultaneous.
They Were Hanged
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Author : Alan Hustak
language : en
Publisher: Lorimer
Release Date : 1987
They Were Hanged written by Alan Hustak and has been published by Lorimer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book contains short biographies on the last person to be executed in every Canadian province. Each entry contains information on the crime, a picture and biography of the criminal, and descriptions of the investigation and trial.
A Hanging Offence
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Author : Don Cummer
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Release Date : 2015-02-01
A Hanging Offence written by Don Cummer and has been published by Scholastic Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason - a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?