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Chris Hadfield OOnt MSC LLD DEng (born 1959) – first Canadian to walk in space, first Canadian to command the International Space Station; Steven MacLean ScD (born 1954) Julie Payette CQ FMC (born 1963) David Saint-Jacques (born 1970), B.Eng., Ph.D., M.D. Robert Thirsk (born 1953) – holds Canadian record for longest time spent in space (204 ...
Name Work Location Date of Death Cause of Death Guard Henry (or Harry) Traill [2] Kingston Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario: July 7, 1870 First post-confederation peace officer to be killed in the line of duty. Struck in the head during an escape. [3] Guard John Rutledge [4] Toronto Central Prison, Toronto, Ontario: c.1888 Instructor David ...
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.
Campione was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 25 years. [6] Leo Campione read a victim impact statement. [4] Campione filed appeals against her conviction in 2010. [5] In 2015, some of them were denied. [7] In 2019, the Parole Board of Canada allowed her to have escorted absences from prison. [1]
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Capital punishment in Canada dates to Canada's earliest history, including its period as first a French then a British colony. 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.
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
Clifford Robert Olson Jr. (January 1, 1940 – September 30, 2011) [1] was a Canadian convicted serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and teenagers (who were aged between 9 and 18) in the early 1980s. [2] In 1976, Olson was serving a sentence for his crimes as a con artist and was placed as a cellmate of Gary Francis Marcoux.