17 July 2020

Canada Death Penalty Index

Maybe you recall something on this blog from 2009. I didn't.  But I was referred to it by Google when looking for information on the death penalty in Canada. That's thanks to a comment by DPW a 319-page document PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH  IN CANADA, 1867-1976:  An Inventory of Case Files in the Fonds of the Department of Justice, National Archives of Canada, 1994. Find it at
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001052.pdf.

Here's an example of an entry, this for the last woman to be hanged in Canada.

BLAKE, Emily Hilda
Female
Crime: Murder
Trial: 1899
Brandon, Man.
Judge: Killam
Result: O. in C. of 1899/12/26, PC 2695
Hanging: 1899/12/27; Brandon, Man.
Reference: RG 13, file 316A (missing).

Digitized newspapers now make it much easier to find information on such cases.

1 comment:

jon said...


This is the correct link:

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001052.pdf