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Dead Man's Gun: True Crime in Postwar Ottawa, Dr. A. Burtch, Canadian War Museum
| Location: | Ontario, Canada |
| Lecture Date: | 2010-01-20 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-01-12 |
| Announcement ID: |
173221 |
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Ottawa Historical Association
20 January, 8pm
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington, Ottawa
This presentation follows a chain of events that began in October 1945 with a break-in at the newly-opened Canadian War Museum, a crime that led to the fatal shooting of an Ottawa police detective, a sensational trial, and the last execution carried out in the city. The theft, murder, and trial that followed all reveal how the Second World War had shaped Ottawa and its citizens, including the city’s police and the criminal underclass. Crime and punishment linked in to early postwar social and political debates about capital punishment, criminality, and the safety of souvenir firearms brought back from European battlefields by a new generation of Canadian veterans.
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