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Known for. National secretary of the Hells Angels in Canada. Robert Donald "Donny" Petersen (17 April 1947 – 12 December 2021) was a Canadian outlaw biker, writer, and alleged gangster. The author of 21 books, Petersen won the International Book Award in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and served as the national secretary and principal spokesman for the ...
Convicted. 6 of first-degree murder. The Shedden massacre involved the gang-related killing of eight men, whose bodies were found in a field five kilometres north [1] of Shedden, a small village in the Canadian province of Ontario, on April 8, 2006. Four vehicles, with the bodies inside, were first discovered by a farmer. [2]
1923. The Southwold Earthworks is the remains of a pre-contact village site of the Neutral people, occupied about AD 1450 to 1550. The entrance to the site is located on Iona Road, approximately three kilometres south of Iona Ontario, Canada. A double oval ring of raised earthworks surrounds the remains of the village.
Roger "Mad Dog" Caron (April 12, 1938 – April 11, 2012) was a Canadian robber and the author of the influential prison memoir Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars ( 1978 ). At the time of publishing, Caron was 39 years old and had spent 23 years in prison.
Jumbo the Elephant is a concrete and reinforced steel statue by Canadian artist Winston Bronnum. The statue was commissioned by the city of St. Thomas, Ontario to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Jumbo, a circus elephant that was killed in the community after being struck by a train. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The city funded the $70,000 sculpture ...
1952–1954 — Thomas H. Currah; 1955–1956 — Peter Laing; 1957–1958 — John M. Stirling Second Panel of Mayors & Reeves of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Located in City Hall, Talbot St. St. Thomas. 1959–1964 — Vincent A. Barrie; 1965–1966 — Donald R. Stokes; 1967–1968 — Vincent A. Barrie; 1969–1971 — Edward O. Fanjoy
Wise was first elected as a Progressive Conservative to the House of Commons of Canada representing the riding of Elgin in 1972. [1] He was re-elected in 1974, 1979, 1980 and 1984. He was the Minister of Agriculture in both Joe Clark 's cabinet (June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980) and Brian Mulroney 's cabinet (September 17, 1984 – September 14 ...
Played for. St. Louis Blues. Playing career. 1955–1976. Cornelius Dennis " Mad Dog " Madigan (October 4, 1934 – January 2, 2024) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 20 games in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues during the 1972–73 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1955 to 1976, was ...