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Anton Fladeby came to Canada from Norway in the spring of 1909, a few of months prior to his 20th birthday and on December 1, 1914, at the age of 25, he enlisted as a guard at Manitoba Penitentiary (known today as the Stony Mountain Penitentiary). During World War I, he saw action overseas in France with the Canadian Army. In 1919, he returned ...
For prisoners held by Canada that died in prison custody, see Category:Prisoners who died in Canadian detention. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Name Date of death Nationality Cause of death Known for Comments Michael Tan Teow: 1990-05-08 Singapore: Suicide by pill overdose Convicted murderer and former actor Died in a solitary confinement cell at Changi Prison's death row section. Found guilty in 1985 of murdering a landlady and her two children, and sentenced to hang.
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The Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989.
Michael Mvogo is a man who was unidentified for a decade, but thought to be possibly of African or Caribbean origin, who was detained in Toronto until 2015. He was initially arrested using the name Andrea Jerome Walker, and later used and claimed a number of different identities and nationalities, none of which have been conclusively proven to be true.
A man named Allan MacDonald was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murders. He later killed himself following a high-speed chase in 1994. MacDonald is thought to have been responsible for the 1990 murder of University of Western Ontario student Lynda Shaw.
On 27 October 1995, Boucher's bail hearing relating to the charges attracted unusual publicity, during which a used car dealer described Boucher as one of his best employees, who had sold $70,000 worth of automobiles in the last year, which was a remarkable achievement for a man who just spent three months in prison. [101]