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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 ...
The story fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada West. Two servants of the Kinnear household, Grace Marks and James McDermott, were convicted of the crime. McDermott was hanged and Marks was sentenced to life imprisonment. [1]
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. Births
The words on the brass tablet state: "This boulder marks the site where Chippewas camped as early as 1843. Early white settlers of the Town of Sherman exchanged provisions for Indian wares on this ...
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 ...
Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer both come from famous families, but they’ve enjoyed keeping their romance low-key. The couple were first romantically linked in September 2020 after they were ...
[49] The Robber Bride takes place in contemporary Toronto, while Alias Grace is a work of historical fiction detailing the 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery. Atwood had previously written the 1974 CBC made-for-TV film The Servant Girl , about the life of Grace Marks , the young servant who, along with James ...
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer both come from famous families, but they’ve enjoyed keeping their romance low-key. The couple were first ...