Death in the peaceable kingdom
Subtitle: Canadian history since 1867 through murder, execution, assassination, and suicide
By: Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781442634558; 9781442606364; 9781442606371; 9781442606388
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Suicidés; Meurtre; Executions and executioners; Histoire; Suicide victims; Murder; Exécutions capitales; Assassins; History
Description: Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring. Using the "hooks" of murder, execution, assassination, and suicide, Dimitry Anastakis introduces readers to the full scope of post- Confederation Canadian history. Beginning with the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Anastakis recounts the deaths of famous Canadians such as Louis Riel, Tom Thomson, and Pierre Laporte. He also introduces lesser-known events such as the execution of shell-shocked deserter Pte. Harold Carter during the First World War and the suicide of suspected communist Herbert Norman in Cairo during the Cold War. The book concludes with recent Canadian deaths including the suicides of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons as a result of cyberbullying. Complementing the chapters are short vignettes--"Murderous Moments" and "Tragic Tales"--that point to broader themes and issues. The book also contains a number of "Active History" exercises such as activities, assignments, and primary document analyses. A timeline, 24 images, and further reading suggestions are included.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Our violent, bloody Confederation. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Assassinated, Ottawa, 1868 : Terror and Invasion in Confederation-era Canada; title: Thomas Scott, Executed or Murdered?, Fort Garry, Winnipeg, 1870 : the Red River Resistance and the Politics of Westward Expansion; title: George Brown, Assassinated, Toronto, 1880 : Dreams of an Emerging Canada; title: Louis Riel, Executed, Regina, 1885 : Open Rebellion and the Fate of the Canadian West; title: Part Two. A Nation Forgd in Blood? Private Harold Carter, Executed, France, 1917 : the Tragedy and Heroism of the First World War, 1914-1918; title: Four Rioters Killed by the Canadian Military, Quebec City, Easter 1918 : Conscription and the Politics of the Great War at Home; title: Michael Sokolowiski and Steven Skezerbanovicz, Murdered, Winnipeg, 1919 : Capital and Labour Collide in Industrializing Canada; title: Tom Thomson, Murdered?, Canoe Lake, Ontario, 1917 : Art, Nationalism, and Americanization in the Interwar Period; title: Filumena Lassandro, Executed, Edmonton, 1923 : Women, the Roaring Twenties, and the Law; title: Peter Markunas, Nick Nargan, and Julian Gryshko, Murdered, Saskatchewan, 1931 : Labour, the Great Depression, Regional Alienation, and State Response; title: Eleven Canadian Soldiers, Murdered by the Nazis, France, 1944 : Canada's War?; title: Part Three. Postwar Canada?Peaceable, Prosperous, Yet Deadly; title: Death by Car: 2,921 Canadians Killed in Motor Vehicle Accidents, 1953 : Cars, Consumption, and Postwar Canadian Society; title: Herbert Norman, Suicide, Cairo, Egypt, 1957 : Cold War Diplomacy, Repression, and Relations with the United States; title: Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas, Executed, Toronto, 1962 : the Death Penalty, Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Social Change in Postwar Canada; title: Pierre Laporte, Assassinated, Montreal, October, 1970 : Quebec, the Quiet Revolution, and the FLQ; title: Rochdale College's Cindy Lei Commits Suicide, Toronto, 1975 : the Counterculture and the Sixties Revolutionary Movement in Canada; title: Three Employees of the Quebec National Assembly, Murdered, Quebec City, 1984 : the Constitutional Wars Turn Deadly; title: "Leap of Faith" : Brian Mulroney (and Ronald Reagan) Kill the National Policy, 1989 : Trade Policy and Postwar Economic Development; title: Fourteen Quebec Women, Murdered, Montreal, December 6, 1989 : Women in Postwar Canada and Violence; title: Dudley George, Murdered, Ipperwash, Ontario, 1995 : Aboriginal Rights and Resistance in Postwar Canada; title: The 329 People on Air India Flight, Murdered over the Atlantic Ocean, 1985 : Challenges to Immigration and Multiculturalism in an Age of Terror; title: Conclusion : Canada, a Nation of Hope.