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Cameron Carruthers was shot and killed as he lunged at two Chatham police officers called to a house break-in near Chatham's Public General Hospital in the middle of the night. He was stabbing himself with a kitchen knife when police arrived at the house. Carruthers had broken into the home shortly after he walked out of the PGH psychiatric ward.
The burial park was founded in 1936 and the funeral home was established in 1965. The cemetery contains the war graves of 37 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II . [ 1 ]
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.
Mountain View Cemetery is the only cemetery in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia.Opened in 1886, it is located west of Fraser Street between 31st and 43rd Avenues. It is owned and operated by the City of Vancouver and occupies 0.43 square kilometres (110 acres) of land, containing more than 100,000 grave sites and over 150,000 interred remai
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Jack McIlhargey, 68, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers), cancer. [532] Lorenzo Milam, 86, American writer. [533] Joan Moriarty, 97, British military nurse, Matron-in-chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (1977–1981). [534] Giuseppe Ottaviani, 104, Italian masters ...
Deborra Jane Hope CM (née Brown; October 11, 1955 – May 15, 2023) was a Canadian journalist, anchor, and producer for Global owned-and-operated station CHAN-DT in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] She joined the station in 1981, when it was known as BCTV, then a CTV affiliate.
George Garrett (16 November 1934 – 18 March 2024) was a Canadian broadcast journalist who was widely recognized as a prominent voice in news radio. [1] [2] [3] He worked for CKNW in Vancouver, British Columbia, and covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots. [4]