Death in the Peaceable Kingdom

Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Our country's past is many things, but never has it been boring. And neither is this book. - Tim Cook, Canada's History

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsTimeline of Canadian HistoryIntroduction Part One: Our Violent, Bloody Confederation1. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Assassinated, Ottawa, 1868: Terror and Invasion in Confederation-Era CanadaMurderous Moment: Patrick James Whelan, Executed, Ottawa, 18692. Thomas Scott, Executed or Murdered? Fort Garry, Winnipeg, 1870: The Red River Resistance and the Politics of Westward ExpansionMurderous Moment: Elizabeth Workman, Executed, Sarnia, Ontario, 18733. George Brown, Assassinated, Toronto, 1880: Dreams of an Emerging Canada4. Louis Riel, Executed, Regina, 1885: Open Rebellion and the Fate of the Canadian WestTragic Tales: The Frog Lake Massacre and the Execution of Eight First Nations Warriors, Fort Battleford, Present-Day Saskatchewan, 1885Murderous 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, 19145. Private Harold Carter, Executed, France, 1917: The Tragedy and Heroism of the First World War, 1914-18Tragic 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 Home7. Michael Sokolowiski and Steven Skezerbanovicz, Murdered, Winnipeg, 1919: Capital and Labour Collide in Industrializing CanadaMurderous Moment: Theatre Impresario Ambrose Small, Murdered? Toronto, 19198. Tom Thomson, Murdered? Canoe Lake, Ontario, 1917: Art, Nationalism, and Americanization in the Interwar PeriodMurderous Moment: William Lyon Mackenzie King Commits Regicide by (Mostly) Killing the British Constitutional Connection to Canada, 1920s9. Filumena Lassandro, Executed, Edmonton, 1923: Women, the Roaring Twenties, and the LawMurderous Moment: Qallanaaq (White Man) Richard Janes, Killed by Inuit Hunters, Baffin Island, 1920Murderous Moment: Coalminer William Davis, Killed by Company Police, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 192510. Peter Markunas, Nick Nargan, and Julian Gryshko, Murdered, Saskatchewan, 1931: Labour, the Great Depression, Regional Alienation, and State ResponseTragic Tales: Two Killed as Police and Mounties Break up the On-to-Ottawa Trek, Regina, Dominion Day (July 1), 193511. Eleven Canadian Soldiers, Murdered by the Nazis, France, 1944: Canada's War? Part Three: Postwar Canada-Peaceable, Prosperous, Yet DeadlyMurderous Moment: John Dick, Murdered, Hamilton, 194612. Death by Car: 2,921 Canadians Killed in Motor Vehicle Accidents, 1953: Cars, Consumption, and Postwar Canadian SocietyMurderous Moment: King Car Kills the Street Railway in Canada, ca. 195513. Herbert Norman, Suicide, Cairo, Egypt, 1957: Cold War Diplomacy, Repression, and Relations with the United StatesMurderous Moment: Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, Conspirator in the 1949 Canadian Pacific Flight 108 Bombing, Last Woman Executed in Canada, Montreal, 195314. Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas, Executed, Toronto, 1962: The Death Penalty, Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Social Change in Postwar CanadaTragic 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-1990s15. Pierre Laporte, Assassinated, Montreal, October 1970: Quebec, the Quiet Revolution, and the FLQMurderous 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 CanadaMurderous Moment: Paul Joseph Chartier, Killed While Attempting to Blow up the House of Commons, 196617. Three Employees of the Quebec National Assembly, Murdered, Quebec City, 1984: The Constitutional Wars Turn Deadly18. "Leap of Faith": Brian Mulroney (and Ronald Reagan) Kill the National Policy, 1989: Trade Policy and Postwar Economic DevelopmentMurderous Moment: Shidane Arone, Murdered by Canadian Troops, Somalia, 199319. Fourteen Quebec Women, Murdered, Montreal, December 6, 1989: Women in Postwar Canada and ViolenceTragic Tales: Tracy Latimer, "Mercy Killing," Saskatchewan, 199320. Dudley George, Murdered, Ipperwash, Ontario, 1995: Aboriginal Rights and Resistance in Postwar CanadaTragic Tales: Sue Rodriguez, Death by Assisted Suicide, British Columbia, 199421. The 329 People on Air India Flight 182, Murdered over the Atlantic Ocean, 1985: Challenges to Immigration and Multiculturalism in an Age of TerrorTragic Tales: Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons, Suicide, 2012 and 2013 Conclusion: Canada, a Nation of HopeIndex