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A total of 26 Canadian soldiers were executed for military offences during the two world wars. 25 occurred during World War I for charges such as desertion or cowardice: 23 were posthumously pardoned on 16 August 2006, while the remaining two men were executed for murder and would have been executed under civilian law.
20th-century executions by Canada (1 C, 14 P) B. People executed by the Colony of British Columbia ... List of Canadian soldiers executed for military offences
From 1867 to the elimination of the death penalty for murder on July 26, 1976, 1,481 people had been sentenced to death, and 710 had been executed. Of those executed, 697 were men and 13 women. The only method used in Canada for capital punishment of civilians after the end of the French regime was hanging .
People of Canadian nationality who were executed. For people who were executed by Canada, see Category:People executed by Canada. Subcategories.
List of people legally executed in New South Wales; List of people legally executed in Queensland; List of people legally executed in South Australia; List of people legally executed in Tasmania; List of people legally executed in the Northern Territory; List of people legally executed in Victoria; List of people legally executed in Western ...
This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".
Canadian Expeditionary Force personnel executed during World War I (1 P) Pages in category "20th-century executions by Canada" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Canadian Expeditionary Force personnel executed during World War I (1 P) Pages in category "Canadian military personnel killed in World War I" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total.