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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.
Grace had helped Mary get home and into bed, but awoke the next morning to find Mary dead. Grace was troubled afterwards by the idea that she should have opened the window during the night when Mary died to let her soul out (p. 178). Grace continues her story in vivid detail, making an effort to keep the doctor interested.
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 .
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)
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 ...
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