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The first state funeral in Canada was held for Thomas D'Arcy McGee after his assassination in April 1868. [6] The first Governor General of Canada to receive a state funeral was the Lord Tweedsmuir in 1940, who died in office. Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister was also the first to receive a state funeral.
Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack (January 19, 1954 – October 23, 1966) was an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) First Nations boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School, where he boarded for three years in Kenora, Ontario, Canada.
Margaret Mick (1 June 1860 – 25 May 1925) was Canada's first female peace officer to be killed in the line of duty. On the night of Monday, May 25, 1925 Mick, who worked as a Matron, was the only staff member on duty at the Toronto Municipal Jail Farm for Women in Concord, Ontario.
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The "Black" Donnellys were an Irish Catholic immigrant family who settled in Biddulph township, Upper Canada (later the province of Ontario), about 25 km northwest of London, in the 1840s. The family settled on a concession road which became known as the Roman Line due to its high concentration of Irish Catholic immigrants in the predominantly ...
The men sacked the home and left with an undisclosed amount of money. Henri never regained consciousness, and died in August 1993. [136] 2000 Gaetano "Guy" Panepinto: 41 Toronto: Ontario: Gaetano Panepinto was a Toronto mobster and funeral home owner, who was attempting to distance himself from organized crime. The murder of his alleged lover ...
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster argued that the ongoing conflict in Gaza will continue and life for Palestinians cannot improve “until Hamas is destroyed.” McMaster joined ...
Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [39] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911.