Dimitry Anastakis

Death in the Peaceable Kingdom

Canadian History Since 1867 Through Murder, Execution, Assassination, and Suicide

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Produktbeschreibung

Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 191mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781442606364
• ISBN-10: 1442606363
• Artikelnr.: 42202318

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By Dimitry Anastakis

Inhaltsangabe

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