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Book Synopsis Outlaws & Lawmen of Western Canada by : Edited by Art Downs
Download or read book Outlaws & Lawmen of Western Canada written by Edited by Art Downs and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 1983 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic cases involving Western Canada's pioneer lawmen. Included are The Mad Trapper of Rat River, Saskatchewan's Midnight Massacre, The Yukon's Christmas Day Assassins, When Guns Blazed at Banff, The Strangler Who Terrified the Prairies and British Columbia's Boone Helm- The Murdering Cannibal.
Author :Heritage House Publisher :Heritage House Publishing Company Limited ISBN 13 :9780919214880 Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (148 download)
Book Synopsis Outlaws and Lawmen of Western Canada by : Heritage House
Download or read book Outlaws and Lawmen of Western Canada written by Heritage House and published by Heritage House Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Mad Trapper of Rat River; Saskatchewan's Midnight Massacre; Yukon's Christmas Day Assassins; When Guns Blazed at Banff, BC's Murdering Cannibal, Boone Helm; Winnipeg's Prairie Strangler and others.
Book Synopsis Outlaws & Lawmen of Western Canada by :
Download or read book Outlaws & Lawmen of Western Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Desperate Ones by : Edward Butts
Download or read book The Desperate Ones written by Edward Butts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction They were among Canada's most desperate criminals, yet their names have been all but forgotten in the annals of history - until now! In their day these lawless men made headline news. Author Ed Butts has rescued their stories from dusty newspaper pages and polished them up for today's readers in this fascinating volume. The Markham Gang introduced Canada West to organized crime long before anyone had heard of the Mafia. Lew Bevis took on the whole Halifax Police Department in a blazing gun battle. The wild Macdonald cousins went to Michigan, where they ended their violent careers as victims of a savage lynching. Reid and Davis, the notorious Border Bandits of the Roaring Twenties, were the nightmare of every banker from Manitoba to the state of Washington. This rogues' gallery of killers, robbers, and men of mystery shocked the nation, challenged the forces of law and order, and sometimes even got away with it.
Book Synopsis The Law and the Lawless by : Art Downs
Download or read book The Law and the Lawless written by Art Downs and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the nineteenth century, Canada's prairies were still sparsely populated. Crimes such as horse theft, random murders, and prison escapes were the order of the day, and the North West Mounted Police continued to rely on their horses, their contacts, and their wits to apprehend the culprits. By the mid-1930s, a sea change in technology and police science had changed the game. Major advances in transportation, communications, and sleuthing techniques made crime-solving a new art--but the criminals also had access to the new ways. The US had Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger, but Canada had its fair share of bad apples committing equally vicious crimes: a serial rapist and strangler who most often chose female proprietors of rooming houses as his victims; a father-and-son murder team, tracked by an enterprising detective all the way to Kentucky; and a group of murderous youths who sparked a manhunt across two provinces and a bloody shootout resulting in the deaths of four policemen. These stories offer an intriguing look at the skill, determination, and bravery of Prairie law enforcers as they risked their all to bring ruthless outlaws to justice.
Author :William Joseph Hulgaard Publisher :Heritage House Publishing Co ISBN 13 :9781894384391 Total Pages :228 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (843 download)
Book Synopsis Honoured in Places by : William Joseph Hulgaard
Download or read book Honoured in Places written by William Joseph Hulgaard and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Canadian prairies were first settled and the Mounties marched west to establish and maintain law and order, the names of individual officers have left their mark on the national landscape. Their long tradition has been honoured in many of the place names of Canada, especially in the West. In this collection, over 250 of the NWMP, RNWMP and RCMP members who died while on duty, or who enjoyed long or extraordinary careers, are remembered. Other place names are connected to a Mountie-related event or were named by a pioneering Mountie in honour of some significant occurrence. Authors William "Bill" Hulgaard and John "Jack" White, both retired Mounties, extended their research across Canada to compile the information for Honoured in Places.
Book Synopsis B.C. Provincial Police Stories by : Cecil Clark
Download or read book B.C. Provincial Police Stories written by Cecil Clark and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecil Clark's stories from the archives of B.C.'s first lawmen show why the B.C. Provincial Police was considered one of North America's best police forces. Included are tales of the McLeans, a gang of vicious young killers in the Interior; "Skook" Davidson, one of the force's most unconventional Special Constables; canine policemen; and Sergeant Sperry Cline and his one-of-a-kind approach to policing.
Book Synopsis The Burden of History by : Elizabeth Furniss
Download or read book The Burden of History written by Elizabeth Furniss and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city -- Williams Lake -- at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss analyses contemporary colonial relations in settler societies, arguing that 'ordinary' rural Euro- Canadians exercise power in maintaining the subordination of aboriginal people through 'common sense' assumptions and assertions about history, society, and identity, and that these cultural activities are forces in an ongoing, contemporary system of colonial domination. She traces the main features of the regional Euro-Canadian culture and shows how this cultural complex is thematically integrated through the idea of the frontier. Key facets of this frontier complex are expressed in diverse settings: casual conversations among Euro-Canadians; popular histories; museum displays; political discourse; public debates about aboriginal land claims; and ritual celebrations of the city's heritage.
Book Synopsis Prohibition Lawman by : Steve B Davis
Download or read book Prohibition Lawman written by Steve B Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of war hero and prohibition lawman Steve Lawson. September 21, 1922 is a fateful one for Constable Lawson of the Alberta Provincial Police. The force is charged with stopping the illegal importation of liquor into the province. After an ill-fated run-in with police the rum runners confront Lawson at his office and home in Coleman in the Crowsnest Pass. There is a brief scuffle, shots are fired and the unarmed officer falls to the ground dead. After the arrest and subsequent sensational trial the rum runners are hanged the following year. The focus in this story is on the victim and his family, not on the criminals and the crime. Too often victims are forgotton in the media frenzy after crimes are committed. Readers will be surprised to learn Steve Lawson is more than a historical footnote, but a major player in the history of the West.
Book Synopsis Scoundrels and Saloons by : Rich Mole
Download or read book Scoundrels and Saloons written by Rich Mole and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon--the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were fought by historical heavyweights, including Matthew Baillie Begbie (the "Hanging Judge") and Wyatt Earp, and a contentious assortment of murderous whisky traders, angry Natives, corrupt policemen, patronage-loving politicians and trigger-happy drunks. Liquor was a serious and life-threatening issue in 19th-century west coast settlements. In 1864 Victoria, there were at least 149 drinking establishments to serve a thirsty population of only 6,500. Despite various prohibition efforts, the trade in alcohol flourished. Recreating British gunboat arrests, the evangelistic fervour of Billy Sunday and the tireless crusade of the Anti-Saloon League, author Rich Mole chronicles the first tempestuous and tragic struggles for and against having a drink in the Pacific Northwest.
Book Synopsis Sitting Bull's Boss by : Ian Anderson
Download or read book Sitting Bull's Boss written by Ian Anderson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Morrow Walsh can rightfully be called the original Mountie. In late 1873 he led the first troop of scarlet-coated policemen toward the great Canadian prairie. In the summer of 1875 he was assigned to construct Fort Walsh in the Cypress Hills above the Canada-U.S. border. Below the border, or medicine line as the Sioux Nation knew it, 15,000 Native Americans were drawn a year later to the camp of Sitting Bull on the Little Bighorn River. By 1877, newspaper headlines from Chicago to New York tweaked the curiosity of millions by referring to Walsh as "Sitting Bull's Boss." The years leading up to those headlines and the times that followed were the most dramatic era in the history of the west.
Download or read book Steele's Scouts written by Wayne F. Brown and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a fatal encounter between Louis Riel's Metis rebels and the North West Mounted Police at Duck Lake in March 1885, the Canadian government mobilized forces in both Ontario and Alberta to suppress what became known as "The Northwest Rebellion." The western force was assembled in Calgary by Gunner Jingo Strange, a retired major general who readily knew the right man to lead an advance unit: Samuel Benfield Steele. He called them "Steele's Scouts." Steele's Scouts patrolled through bush and swamp, under the constant threat of ambush. They were vital to the furious battles near Frenchman Butte and Loon Lake, where the scouts alone fought the Cree warriors. Their actions contributed significantly to the defeat of Canada's last rebellion. Wayne Brown, a long-time admirer of Sam Steele, knows well the landscape and rebellion battle sites of the Northwest Rebellion and has followed the trails of Steele's Scouts. With each stage of Steele's journey, Brown gives detailed directions so that history buffs or the curious can visit these heritage sites.
Book Synopsis Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by :
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hunger, Horses, and Government Men by : Shelley A.M. Gavigan
Download or read book Hunger, Horses, and Government Men written by Shelley A.M. Gavigan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. In this illuminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the criminal courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. Gavigan draws on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts and insights from critical criminology to interrogate state formation and criminal law in the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905. By focusing on Aboriginal people’s participation in the courts rather than on narrow categories such as “the state” and “the accused,” Gavigan allows Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, and informants to emerge in vivid detail and tell the story in their own terms. Their experiences stand as evidence that the criminal law and the Indian Act operated in complex and contradictory ways that included both the mediation and the enforcement of relations of inequality.
Download or read book BC Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drop Dead written by Lorna Poplak and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Outlaws and Lawmen of Western Canada by : R. G. Evans
Download or read book Outlaws and Lawmen of Western Canada written by R. G. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1983-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More drama. The first hanging in Calgary, a murder of a policeman in Manitoba, B.C.'s hanging that set a world record, Manitoba's first official outlaw, and many others. Includes eighty photos and maps.
