List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Timeline of Canadian History Introduction Part One: Our Violent, Bloody Confederation 1. Thomas D''Arcy McGee, Assassinated, Ottawa, 1868: Terror and Invasion in Confederation-Era Canada Murderous Moment: Patrick James Whelan, Executed, Ottawa, 1869 2. Thomas Scott, Executed or Murdered? Fort Garry, Winnipeg, 1870: The Red River Resistance and the Politics of Westward Expansion Murderous Moment: Elizabeth Workman, Executed, Sarnia, Ontario, 1873 3. George Brown, Assassinated, Toronto, 1880: Dreams of an Emerging Canada 4. Louis Riel, Executed, Regina, 1885: Open Rebellion and the Fate of the Canadian West Tragic Tales: The Frog Lake Massacre and the Execution of Eight First Nations Warriors, Fort Battleford, Present-Day Saskatchewan, 1885 Murderous Moment: Killing the French Fact Outside of Quebec--Ending Separate (French) Schooling in New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Ontario, 1871-1912 Part Two: A Nation Forged in Blood? Murderous Moment: William C. Hopkinson, Immigration Officer and Secret Agent, Murdered, Vancouver, 1914 5. Private Harold Carter, Executed, France, 1917: The Tragedy and Heroism of the First World War, 1914-18 Tragic Tales: Collateral Damages--The Burning of Parliament Hill''s Centre Block (1916) and the Halifax Explosion (1917) 6. Four Rioters Killed by the Canadian Military, Quebec City, Easter 1918: Conscription and the Politics of the Great War at Home 7.

Michael Sokolowiski and Steven Skezerbanovicz, Murdered, Winnipeg, 1919: Capital and Labour Collide in Industrializing Canada Murderous Moment: Theatre Impresario Ambrose Small, Murdered? Toronto, 1919 8. Tom Thomson, Murdered? Canoe Lake, Ontario, 1917: Art, Nationalism, and Americanization in the Interwar Period Murderous Moment: William Lyon Mackenzie King Commits Regicide by (Mostly) Killing the British Constitutional Connection to Canada, 1920s 9. Filumena Lassandro, Executed, Edmonton, 1923: Women, the Roaring Twenties, and the Law Murderous Moment: Qallanaaq (White Man) Richard Janes, Killed by Inuit Hunters, Baffin Island, 1920 Murderous Moment: Coalminer William Davis, Killed by Company Police, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1925 10. Peter Markunas, Nick Nargan, and Julian Gryshko, Murdered, Saskatchewan, 1931: Labour, the Great Depression, Regional Alienation, and State Response Tragic Tales: Two Killed as Police and Mounties Break up the On-to-Ottawa Trek, Regina, Dominion Day (July 1), 1935 11. Eleven Canadian Soldiers, Murdered by the Nazis, France, 1944: Canada''s War? Part Three: Postwar Canada--Peaceable, Prosperous, Yet Deadly Murderous Moment: John Dick, Murdered, Hamilton, 1946 12. Death by Car: 2,921 Canadians Killed in Motor Vehicle Accidents, 1953: Cars, Consumption, and Postwar Canadian Society Murderous Moment: King Car Kills the Street Railway in Canada, ca. 1955 13. Herbert Norman, Suicide, Cairo, Egypt, 1957: Cold War Diplomacy, Repression, and Relations with the United States Murderous Moment: Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, Conspirator in the 1949 Canadian Pacific Flight 108 Bombing, Last Woman Executed in Canada, Montreal, 1953 14.

Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas, Executed, Toronto, 1962: The Death Penalty, Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Social Change in Postwar Canada Tragic Tales: "To Kill the Indian in the Child"--Charlie Wenjack, Died in 1966 as Did over 3,000 Aboriginal Children in Indian Residential Schools, 1870s-1990s 15. Pierre Laporte, Assassinated, Montreal, October 1970: Quebec, the Quiet Revolution, and the FLQ Murderous Moment: Victims, Police, Politicians, and Terrorists: What Happened After the October Crisis? 16. Rochdale College''s Cindy Lei Commits Suicide, Toronto, 1975: The Counterculture and the Sixties Revolutionary Moment in Canada Murderous Moment: Paul Joseph Chartier, Killed While Attempting to Blow up the House of Commons, 1966 17. Three Employees of the Quebec National Assembly, Murdered, Quebec City, 1984: The Constitutional Wars Turn Deadly 18. "Leap of Faith": Brian Mulroney (and Ronald Reagan) Kill the National Policy, 1989: Trade Policy and Postwar Economic Development Murderous Moment: Shidane Arone, Murdered by Canadian Troops, Somalia, 1993 19. Fourteen Quebec Women, Murdered, Montreal, December 6, 1989: Women in Postwar Canada and Violence Tragic Tales: Tracy Latimer, "Mercy Killing," Saskatchewan, 1993 20. Dudley George, Murdered, Ipperwash, Ontario, 1995: Aboriginal Rights and Resistance in Postwar Canada Tragic Tales: Sue Rodriguez, Death by Assisted Suicide, British Columbia, 1994 21. The 329 People on Air India Flight 182, Murdered over the Atlantic Ocean, 1985: Challenges to Immigration and Multiculturalism in an Age of Terror Tragic Tales: Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons, Suicide, 2012 and 2013 Conclusion: Canada, a Nation of Hope Index.