Walk Towards the Gallows : : The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 / / Tom Mitchell, Reinhold Kramer.
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.Blake uninten...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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