[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Have a black sheep in the family? Or a victim of crime?

[Helen Gillespie]

If you think you might have a black sheep in the family - someone who might have received the death penalty for some heinous crime, or someone who simply disappeared and was possibly a VICTIM - Library and Archives Canada has an inventory of the Justice Department's files
 PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CANADA, 1867-1976:
An Inventory of Case Files   
in the Fonds of the Department of Justice
 
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001052.pdf    
 
Brief details are provided - the criminal and the victim . Some of the files might be online, but most would have to be ordered for details.  Sometimes newspaper clippings are included in the files.  

 
Some Western Canada folks.

For example - I found a Gustav Angermann in one of the files.  He was murdered by a young neighbour in Burstall Sask in 1945.  Newsclips gave details of family and the investigation.  Also found him in Find a Grave - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91339194  which had a few genealogy details.  So - if you're related - this explains his disappearance!

Couldn't say if others are as interesting - but it's another source.

Also http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/canada.html  a list for the whole of Canadaand the main link www.capitalpunishmentuk.org has bits on other countries and the US.

A bit gruesome but fascinating nonetheless......


 
Helen

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