List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Canadian History
Introduction
Part One: Our Violent, Bloody Confederation
1. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Assassinated, Ottawa, 1868: Terror and Invasion in Confederation-Era Canada
Murderous Moment: Patrick James Whelan, Executed, Ottawa, 1869
2. Thomas Scott, Executed or Murdered? Fort Garry, Winnipeg, 1870: The Red River Resistance and the Politics of Westward Expansion
Murderous Moment: Elizabeth Workman, Executed, Sarnia, Ontario, 1873
3. George Brown, Assassinated, Toronto, 1880: Dreams of an Emerging Canada
4. Louis Riel, Executed, Regina, 1885: Open Rebellion and the Fate of the Canadian West
Tragic Tales: The Frog Lake Massacre and the Execution of Eight First Nations Warriors, Fort Battleford, Present-Day Saskatchewan, 1885
Murderous Moment: Killing the French Fact Outside of Quebec—Ending Separate (French) Schooling in New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta, and Ontario, 1871-1912
Part Two: A Nation Forged in Blood?
Murderous Moment: William C. Hopkinson, Immigration Officer and Secret Agent, Murdered, Vancouver, 1914
5. Private Harold Carter, Executed, France, 1917: The Tragedy and Heroism of the First World War, 1914-18
Tragic Tales: Collateral Damages—The Burning of Parliament Hill's Centre Block (1916) and the Halifax Explosion (1917)
6. Four Rioters Killed by the Canadian Military, Quebec City, Easter 1918: Conscription and the Politics of the Great War at Home
7. Michael Sokolowiski and Steven Skezerbanovicz, Murdered, Winnipeg, 1919: Capital and Labour Collide in Industrializing Canada
Murderous Moment: Theatre Impresario Ambrose Small, Murdered? Toronto, 1919
8. Tom Thomson, Murdered? Canoe Lake, Ontario, 1917: Art, Nationalism, and Americanization in the Interwar Period
Murderous Moment: William Lyon Mackenzie King Commits Regicide by (Mostly) Killing the British Constitutional Connection to Canada,
1920s
9. Filumena Lassandro, Executed, Edmonton, 1923: Women, the Roaring Twenties, and the Law
Murderous Moment: Qallanaaq (White Man) Richard Janes, Killed by Inuit Hunters, Baffin Island, 1920
Murderous Moment: Coalminer William Davis, Killed by Company Police, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1925
10. Peter Markunas, Nick Nargan, and Julian Gryshko, Murdered, Saskatchewan, 1931: Labour, the Great Depression, Regional Alienation, and State
Response
Tragic Tales: Two Killed as Police and Mounties Break up the On-to-Ottawa Trek, Regina, Dominion Day (July 1), 1935
11. Eleven Canadian Soldiers, Murdered by the Nazis, France, 1944: Canada's War?
Part Three: Postwar Canada—Peaceable, Prosperous, Yet Deadly
Murderous Moment: John Dick, Murdered, Hamilton, 1946
12. Death by Car: 2,921 Canadians Killed in Motor Vehicle Accidents, 1953: Cars, Consumption, and Postwar Canadian Society
Murderous Moment: King Car Kills the Street Railway in Canada, ca. 1955
13. Herbert Norman, Suicide, Cairo, Egypt, 1957: Cold War Diplomacy, Repression, and Relations with the United States
Murderous Moment: Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, Conspirator in the 1949 Canadian Pacific Flight 108 Bombing, Last Woman Executed in
Canada, Montreal, 1953
14. Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas, Executed, Toronto, 1962: The Death Penalty, Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Social Change in Postwar Canada
Tragic Tales: "To Kill the Indian in the Child"—Charlie Wenjack, Died in 1966 as Did over 3,000 Aboriginal Children in Indian Residential
Schools, 1870s-1990s
15. Pierre Laporte, Assassinated, Montreal, October 1970: Quebec, the Quiet Revolution, and the FLQ
Murderous Moment: Victims, Police, Politicians, and Terrorists: What Happened After the October Crisis?
16. Rochdale College's Cindy Lei Commits Suicide, Toronto, 1975: The Counterculture and the Sixties Revolutionary Moment in Canada
Murderous Moment: Paul Joseph Chartier, Killed While Attempting to Blow up the House of Commons, 1966
17. Three Employees of the Quebec National Assembly, Murdered, Quebec City, 1984: The Constitutional Wars Turn Deadly
18. "Leap of Faith": Brian Mulroney (and Ronald Reagan) Kill the National Policy, 1989: Trade Policy and Postwar Economic Development
Murderous Moment: Shidane Arone, Murdered by Canadian Troops, Somalia, 1993
19. Fourteen Quebec Women, Murdered, Montreal, December 6, 1989: Women in Postwar Canada and Violence
Tragic Tales: Tracy Latimer, "Mercy Killing," Saskatchewan, 1993
20. Dudley George, Murdered, Ipperwash, Ontario, 1995: Aboriginal Rights and Resistance in Postwar Canada
Tragic Tales: Sue Rodriguez, Death by Assisted Suicide, British Columbia, 1994
21. The 329 People on Air India Flight 182, Murdered over the Atlantic Ocean, 1985: Challenges to Immigration and Multiculturalism in an Age of
Terror
Tragic Tales: Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons, Suicide, 2012 and 2013
Conclusion: Canada, a Nation of Hope
Index
