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Grace Marks (c. 1828 – after c. 1873) was an Irish-Canadian maid who was involved in the 1843 murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Her conviction for the murder of Kinnear was controversial and sparked much debate about whether Marks was actually instrumental in the murder or ...
Survey of Boundary, between the U.S. and Canada, is begun. Grace Marks is controversially convicted of murder after her trial on November 3 and 4, 1843. The crime and trial will form the basis for Margaret Atwood 's novel Alias Grace in 1996.
Moodie's books and poetry inspired Margaret Atwood's collection of poetry, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, published in 1970. It was also an important influence on one of Atwood's later novels, Alias Grace , based on an account of murder convict Grace Marks which appeared in Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush .
Grace Marks (c. 1828–after c. 1873) – convicted of murder in 1843; Bruce McArthur (born 1951) – serial killer; Allan McLean (1855–1881) – son of Fort Kamloops Chief Trader and leader and eldest of the group known as the Wild McLean Boys, who went on a killing spree with his brothers and accomplice Alex Hare in the British Columbia ...
From the outset the company had difficulty in selling the lands. The distance of the townships from the settled parts of the province, the absence of good roads, [g] the rough nature of the country, the Civil War in the United States, the Fenian raids on the border, the Long Depression of 1873–1879, and rival attractions of Western Canada, all combined to discourage sales.
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Then on July 18, 1843, Kinnear and Montgomery were killed by the jealous manservant in what was widely regarded as Upper Canada's most notorious murder case. How come this only says "the jealous manservant" and not "maid and manservant" like line 1 if both were convicted of murder? Inconsistent. ScratchMarshall 21:16, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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