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McMicking was the leader of the famed "Overlanders of '62" which traversed the continent in 1862 from Queenston, Canada West in search of gold in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. [3] The party, including McMicking's 2nd youngest brother, Robert Burns McMicking (July 7, 1843 - Nov 27, 1915). [4] [5] left Queenston in April 1862. Having ...
Mark Sweeten Wade (November 23, 1858 – 1929) [1] was a medical doctor and historian of early British Columbia history. A medical doctor at the Kamloops Home for Men in the 1920s, he was able to interview many veterans of the province's early gold rush, including many of the more famous names in the history of the Cariboo Road, the Cariboo Gold Rush and the Overlanders of 1862 led by Thomas ...
Staff and guests have reported that Whelan's spirit is one of many that haunts the hostel and will appear at the end of guests' beds or in his death-row cell. [6] [7] The third (official) and final execution at the jail took place on March 27, 1946, when Eugène Larment, who had killed an Ottawa police detective, was hanged. The building ...
The 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic sweeps through Fort Victoria area and up the length of the northwest coast, killing an estimated 20,000 First Nations people William Duncan , an Anglican missionary on the northwest coast, establishes the village of Metlakatla with 50 Tsimshian followers, who adopt the Christian faith and a European ...
After British Columbia joined confederation in 1871 and with the population of western Canada increasing, the need for a federal prison in western Canada became apparent. . The fact that the transcontinental railroad had not yet been constructed made transporting prisoners long distances east to other federal institutions costly and difficult, which further exacerbated this ne
An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison , although not always at the same prison where the death row population is housed.
The mountain's toponym was adopted by British Columbia on March 13, 1972, [4] and officially adopted January 30, 1980, by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. [3] The mountain and nearby Overlander Falls are named for the Overlanders expedition of 1862 which made part of their perilous journey through the valley beneath this peak. [4] "
Martin Gurule escaped from the Texas Death Row at Ellis Unit on 26 November 1998. He was shot during his escape and died the same night but his body wasn't found until a week later. [34] In 1999, Leslie Dale Martin and three other inmates on Louisiana's death row escaped from their cells at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. They were caught ...