Had it been solely in the hands of the Snuneymuxw first nation , the crime might have been forgiven. But to the Canadian legal authorities killing a four-year-old because of his name, was unambiguously capital murder, and so Tsimequor was arrested and brought to trial. He maintained his innocence, but was convicted on November 7, 1888 and sentenced to death. 

From the same cell-block that had housed the famous Louis Riel, Gaddy and Racette were led to the scaffold on June 13, 1888.  A grimly humorous footnote was added in 1894. Photographer Allen Sutherland visited the Crooked Lake Reserve that summer and was attracted to an aged Indian whose face he thought would make an  excellent portrait. To his surprise, the man refused to pose. Sutherland later learned that the old Indian didn't want his picture taken "by the machine that hung Gaddy and Racette."

In 1887 Robert Neil had received a two-year sentence in the Central Prison for stealing a barrel of apples from a G.T.R. car on Dominion Day 1887.. he would eventually kill guard john Rutledge ...

The Toronto Central Prison, colloquially know as The Toronto Jail was a 336-bed facility located near the intersection of King Street and Strachan Avenue. It opened in 1873, when the area was still well away from any residential development. Hard work and discipline were considered the best forms of rehabilitation 

The tale of Robert Evan Sproule is indeed a sad one. It has been much talked about and written about over the years, He came from Maine, Poor Robert really was an unfortunate man. He had found a promising area on the Kootenay Lake, in British Colombia in 1881, and in 1882 he staked a claim, planning to mine there. He filled in all the right paperwork, so it was an official claim. He was mining for minerals and he called it the Blue Bell mine.

The Frog Lake Massacre was part of the Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion in western Canada. Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree men attacked officials, clergy and settlers in the small settlement of Frog Lake in the District of Saskatchewan in the North-West Territories on 2 April 1885. Nine settlers were killed in the incident. Although it was not a military engagement, the incident proved to be one of the most influential events associated with the NORTH-WEST RESISTANCE. Incited by hunger and mistreatment rather than political motives, 

What can be said that has not already been said about the man who gave his heart for his country 

Louis Riel was the undisputed spiritual and political head of the short-lived 1885 Rebellion. He never carried arms nor hindered the work of his military head, Gabriel Dumont. But Riel was increasingly influenced by his belief that he was chosen to lead the Métis people. On May 15, shortly after the fall of Batoche, Riel surrendered to forces and was taken to Regina to stand trial for treason.

In 2007, a rough stone slab was discovered in a section of the Glenwood Cemetery in Picton set aside for families unable to afford the price of a plot. Scratched in uppercase letters on the stone are the words “G. Louder Hanged 1884 Unjustly.” 

The execution was shockingly bungled. Instead of a quick and possibly more humane death from a broken neck, he died by strangulation. “the published accounts of the hanging confronted the community with the horror that hostility had produced.” 

William Robert Robertson, commonly known as Robby, about 19 years old, was hanged in the prison in New Westminster in the spring of 1884. He was convicted mainly on his own evidence for the murder of Richard (Dick) Bailey, like him, a son of mixed ancestry. His contemporaries questioned the verdict. In all probability he was innocent