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Beat to death with a club, an axe, and a hoe by a freedman wanted for relations with a girl and his two brothers [15] Constable William Lindsay Comber Police Comber, Ontario May 3, 1894 Killed by a drunken disgruntled farmer by a shot to the abdomen Constable Alexander Wright Brockville Police Service: Brockville, Ontario: September 19, 1895
Eishia Loretta Hudson (June 2, 2003 – April 8, 2020) was a teenage Indigenous person who was shot by the Winnipeg Police Service following a robbery, car chase and collision. [1] [2] She later succumbed to Her wounds. [3] [4] After her death, there was public outrage and rallies against police brutality towards indigenous peoples. [5]
Brian Sinclair (1963 – September 21, 2008) was an Indigenous Canadian man whose death in a hospital waiting room led to widespread concern on the state of the healthcare system in Canada. On September 21, 2008, Sinclair waited 34 hours for medical attention at Winnipeg 's Health Sciences Centre . [ 1 ]
William Wayne Heindl Jr. (May 13, 1946 – March 1, 1992) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 18 games in the National Hockey League for the Minnesota North Stars and New York Rangers between 1970 and 1972, and in the World Hockey Association with the Cleveland Crusaders during the 1973–74 season.
The University of Winnipeg's Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre is located in a building named after Osborne. On March 26, 2008, the Osborne family again grieved as her brother was found slain in his apartment in downtown Winnipeg. [7] It was Winnipeg's sixth homicide of 2008.
Catherine Ann McKay was born on May 31, 1961. [1] Her parents were from Cross Lake First Nation, but she was raised outside of Winnipeg. [6] When she was around two years old, she was taken from her parents as part of the Sixties Scoop, as a social worker had deemed her parents unable to care for her due to having several children already. [6]
Tina Michelle Fontaine (1 January 1999 – c. 10 August 2014) [1] was a First Nations teenage girl who was reported missing and died in August 2014. [2] Her case is considered among the high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada, and her death renewed calls by activists for the government to conduct a national inquiry into the issue.
Hall returned to Winnipeg in 1999 or 2000 after working construction jobs in Saskatchewan. He became homeless in 2001, spending time in the Saint Boniface area and living in tents along the Red River. He occasionally drank socially, but after his mother's murder in 2004 he began to drink more heavily. Neil Hall said, "That tore him apart.