On the morning of August 11, 1938, the family of John Ritchie was up early. Mary Ritchie, John’s wife, had already made breakfast when one her sons, Norman, and her nephew, Gordon Fisher, came into the kitchen at 6:30 a.m. The two young men ate and left to work in the fields, leaving Mary, JohnContinue reading “The Unbalanced John Ritchie”
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The Suspicious Death of Thomas Gore
On the morning of April 3, 1914, Mr. Speers, of Speers Undertaking in Regina, and Sergeant Dubuque, of the RNWMP, left Regina with a casket wagon and made their way out to the Tregarva cemetery north of Regina. They were there to exhume the body of Thomas Alexander Gore. Thomas Gore had been a wealthyContinue reading “The Suspicious Death of Thomas Gore”
The Murder of Kosto Surkin
Good Friday, April 14, 1922 – North Regina It was late in the evening when Kosto Surkin and several of his friends were walking down the street in North Regina on their way to one of the men’s houses. They’d had a few drinks and were singing and shouting. when John Amaniuk, whose house theyContinue reading “The Murder of Kosto Surkin”
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