PLAYERS IN THE DEADLY GAME OF HANGMAN IN CANADA

THE VICTIM

 

 

“First, there had to be a body: spread-eagled on a city street, slumped over a desk, buried in a shallow grave in field or forest. Even in the one and only case where the convicted man, Louis Riel, was hanged for high treason and not for murder, there was a body.”

 

Statesman, journalist, public speaker, and poet. Thomas D’Arcy McGee was felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1868, becoming the only Canadian federal politician ever to be assassinated

 

— Excerpted from “Drop Dead” by Lorna Poplak
Copyright © Lorna Poplak, 2017 All rights reserved.
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