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Gregory Woolley (26 February 1972 – 17 November 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. [1] [2] [3] Woolley was the protégé and bodyguard of Maurice Boucher, a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine, in Quebec, from 1994 to 2002. [4]
La Gazette de Montréal/The Montreal Gazette, 1785, Montréal, Fleury Mesplet, printer; Le Courier de Québec ou héraut francois, 1788, Quebec City, William Moore, editor, and James Tanswell, collaborator; Quebec Herald and Universal Miscellany, 1788, Quebec City, William Moore, editor, and James Tanswell, collaborator
The first state funeral in Canada was held for Thomas D'Arcy McGee after his assassination in April 1868. [6] The first Governor General of Canada to receive a state funeral was the Lord Tweedsmuir in 1940, who died in office. Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister was also the first to receive a state funeral.
Mount Royal Cemetery (French: Cimetière Mont-Royal) is a 165-acre (67 ha) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It opened in 1852. Temple Emanu-El Cemetery, a Reform Judaism burial ground, is within the Mount Royal grounds.
The death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau took place in 2000. Pierre Trudeau was the 15th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1968 to 1984, with a brief interruption in 1979–1980. Trudeau died on September 28, 2000. His casket lay in state on Parliament Hill from September 30 to October 1 and the following day at Montreal City Hall.
He lay in state at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa on March 19–20, followed by laying in repose at St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal on March 21–22. [8] Flags were flown at half-mast on the Peace Tower and all federal buildings and establishments in Canada, from February 29 until sunset on the day of the funeral, March 23, 2024. [9]
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Beechwood Cemetery is the national cemetery of Canada, located in Vanier, Ottawa, Ontario.Over 82,000 people are buried in the cemetery, including Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn, Prime Minister Robert Borden, and several members of Parliament, premiers, Canadian Armed Forces personnel and veterans, Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel, Canadian Security Intelligence Service intelligence ...