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Episode 132: In this episode we take a look at a topic not spoken of often, slavery in colonial Canada and its aftermath. As well, we learn a little about the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and the shameful destruction of the community of Africville near Halifax, beginning in 1966.

Sources and further information:
[Africville Museum]
[Africville]
[The story of Africville | CMHR]
[Remember Africville by  – NFB]
[Transmopolis  » Wild Reports   » Eddie Carvery and Africville]
[2020 Honouree: the community of Africville | NS Heritage Day]
[Nova Scotia Archives – Gone but Never Forgotten]
[Black History in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia]
[Black History in Canada Education Guide | Canadian Encyclopedia]
[CDC: Black Loyalists]
[Code Noir – Wikipedia]
[Africville: A Community Destroyed | CBC Radio]
[Stolen From Africville – Broken Homes, Broken Hearts – Documentary]
[Remembering Black Loyalists – Who were Black Loyalists?]
[The story of slavery in Canadian history | CMHR]
[The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you – | TED-Ed]
[Slave Voyages]
[The transatlantic slave trade: introduction]
[Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad — YouTube]
[Africville — Children’s Book Reading — YouTube]
[Africville | GlobalNews.ca]
[Africville sources | Source Guide | Halifax]
[HRM: Africville – Apology]
[Fundraiser: Eddie Carvery – 50 Years of Africville Activism]

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Episode 131 – For centuries, the indigenous peoples of the western Canada and in the forest along the west coast of the United States told tales of a an elusive massive, hair covered bipedal creature leaving giant footprints behind. Called Sasquatch by some, and Bigfoot by others, this giant man of the forest has been described as gentle but potentially dangerous. In this our inaugural episode on a massive topic Mike and Scott give listeners an overview of the legend, some examples of encounters and some of the theories. Special Guest Dave Scott of Spaced Out Radio tells of his own run ins with the creature. Happy Canada Day!!

Sources & Further Reading:
https://www.cryptozoology.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sasquatch
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1728-8
https://www.outsideonline.com/2095096/man-who-created-bigfoot
https://web.archive.org/web/20150819101546/http://www.sasquatchdatabase.com/
https://www.sasquatchcanada.com/https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1oUzrtOcvHs6Px-EfTRTdLt0cfDA&ll=50.639428965645266%2C-124.09120342344102&z=6&fbclid=IwAR1rnPwm8tRVUhqkHeT02B0geq-mV1O-Gz0eiXwLzzHp1qO87380nzTdPVc more than 900 sightings at CanadianSasquatch.com
http://anyflip.com/pzdt/mwly Bigfoot Sightings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willison_Green
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/johngreen-obit/
https://kilby.ca/learn/museum-exhibits/
https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot/bigfoot-part-01-of-01/view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2fsMsPz1DQ MONSTER of the WOODS the John Green interview 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKwc331mnxc John Green – Sasquatch Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJ-KORUt5E Bigfoot Man or Beast 1972 Patterson-Gimlin 16mm film Robert Morgan documentary full movie Sasquatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7SpzTeodx0 Discovering Bigfoot – movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOxuRIfFs0w&feature=emb_title Patterson Gimlin film
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/northwest-coast/haida
https://www.sesqui.ca/en/news/kristi-lane-sinclair-on-the-legend-of-the-sasquatch/
http://www.native-languages.org/legends-bigfoot.htm
http://www.sesqui.ca/en/news/legendary-creatures-from-around-the-world/
https://www.mymondotrading.com/native-meanings-symbology-myths-legends
https://scenicsasquatch.com/2018/04/18/sasquatch-in-the-traditions-of-the-coast-salish-tribes/

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Episode 130 – On March 29, 1975, pretty and popular, 16-year-old Sharron Prior left her home in the Montreal, QC, neighbourhood where she lived with her mom and siblings. She was off to a pizza joint only 5 short blocks away. Sharron was found days later, raped and murdered in another neighbourhood across the river. Her murder has never been solved. Her mom, Yvonne, still holds hope that one day she will see Sharron’s killer brought to justice.

Sources & Further Reading
http://www.sharronprior.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4790700762/
http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=49
https://defrostingcoldcases.com/the-point-st-charles-nightmare-the-1975-murder-of-sharron-prior/
http://sharronprior.blogspot.com/
https://www.crave.ca/en/tv-shows/sur-les-traces-dun-tueur-en-serie

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Episode 129: In May of 1914, before the outbreak of WWI, a Japanese steamship called the Komagatu Maru anchored in Burrard Inlet in the Vancouver harbour. There were 376 people aboard led by a man named Baba Gurdit Singh Sirhali. Mostly from the Punjab area of India they dreamt of emigrating to Canada for a better life. Thanks to exclusionary Canadian immigration policies meant to prevent immigration form certain countries, including India, the ship was not allowed to dock. They sat in harbour, without adequate food and water for more than two and half months awaiting court challenges. They were deported in late July and led out of the harbour under naval escort. On returning to India they were diverted away from Calcutta, and when they finally landed a riot broke out with British forces during which 29 unarmed passengers were shot, 20 of whom died.

Sources and Further Reading:
http://komagatamarujourney.ca/intro
https://globalnews.ca/news/2708235/what-was-the-komagata-maru-incident-and-why-does-it-matter/
https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2016/05/18/komagata-maru-apology-house-commons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wx1KLtRgQY&feature=emb_logo Full Trudeau Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZUpTxdYZw Canada Apologizes for Racist Incident 100 Years After Rejecting Komagata Maru Ship of 370 Immigrants
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17448727.2014.895546 The Sikh Formations journal article, GHADAR MOVEMENT: A LIVING LEGACY by Nishant Upadhyay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/komagata-maru-racist-actions-1.5607242
https://pier21.ca/explore/online/tell-me-more-about/komagata-maru
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-immigration-acts-and-legislation
https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Komagata_Maru
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru
https://humanrights.ca/story/the-story-of-the-komagata-maru

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Episode 128 – On the 15th of July, 2019, just outside Liard Hot Springs, B.C., the bodies of an innocent couple, Chynna Deese, 24, from Charlotte, NC, and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler, 23, were found shot to death beside their 1986 Chevy van. Police had no idea who had done this, or why.

Four days later, a burning truck, registered to a young Vancouver Island man was found burning near Dease Lake, B.C. As police were attending to that scene, they were notified of another man found murdered only two km from the burning truck. This 64-year-old botanist and UBC lecturer, named Leonard Dyck. His Toyota RAV4 was missing, along with the two young men, who quickly became suspects in the murders, sparking a manhunt that took police through four Provinces and one Territory, ending in Manitoba, thousands of kilometres from where it began.

Sources:
[B.C. RCMP – Overview of Fort Nelson and Dease Lake Homicide Investigation]
[RCMP say northern B.C. murder suspects admitted to murders on video – YouTube]
[B.C. RCMP investigate double homicide of tourists along Alaska Highway]
[Here’s an updated timeline of the northern B.C. murders and manhunt]
[Breyer Schmegelsky’s father speaks out – YouTube]
[Former classmate of Bryer Schmegelsky speaks out]

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Episode 127 – On the morning of October 20, 2003, in North York, a quiet neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Raymond Zhang and Sherry Xu awakened to find their only child, 9-year-old, Cecilia was missing. She had clearly been abducted. There were no ransom demands or clear motives for her kidnapping. All efforts to find the girl were fruitless, until a Scarborough man stumbled across a body in a ravine late in March 2004.

Sources and further reading:
Agreed Statement of Facts (PDF)
Raymond Zhang – Victim Impact Statement (PDF)
Sherry Xu – Victim Impact Statement (PDF)
CBC Zhang Case Background
CBC Zhang Case Background (more)
Cecilia Zhang search at Newspapers.com
https://missingkids.ca/
https://protectchildren.ca/
https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/child-abduction
https://www.canadasmissing.ca/pubs/2019/index-eng.htm
web.archive.org – ceciliazhang.org
Globe and Mail – RIP Cecilia, Happy Birthday

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Episode 126 – On the morning of June 18, 1906, on the trail on the west side of the Two-Mile House, a drinking establishment outside Hazelton, B.C., the body of local tough guy, Alex McIntosh, was found. He had been ambushed and shot through the back. A short time later on the trail to the east of the Two-Mile House, the body of a labourer, Max Leclair, was discovered. He’d died in exactly the same manner. As McIntosh and an indigenous business man named Simon Peter Gunanoot had had a brutal fight only hours prior, suspicion fell on Gunanoot.

When the posse went to arrest him he had already taken off into the wilderness and would lead police on the most expensive manhunt in B.C. history. Gunanoot managed to evade capture for over a decade and was not brought in until he was ready to turn himself in.

Sources:
[Simon Gunanoot – Chasing Shadows by Monty Bassett]
[Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada]
[Kispiox Band Site]
[Gitxsan Nation Site]
[Emily Carr paintings near Kispiox – Contact Sheet]
[Simon Gunanoot – Wikipedia]
[Newspapers.com search – Simon Peter Gunanoot in Canada]
[Echoes of British Columbia by Robert Budd – goodreads.com]
[My Country by Pierre Berton – goodreads.com]
[100 years since the surrender of Simon Gunanoot – BC Local News]
[The man who stayed invisible for thirteen years | Maclean’s | JULY 5, 1958]
[HistoricPlaces.ca – Simon Gun-an-noot’s Grave]

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Episode 125 – On cold December night just before Christmas in 1974, the 14-year-old son of Moncton, NB restauranteur, Cy Stein was kidnapped from the family home by two masked gunman. By just before 5:00am the kidnapping came to and end, but two city of Moncton police officers had then gone missing. Their fate would not be known for two more days, and the outcome was not positive.

Sources:
Regina v. Hutchison, 1975 CanLII 1280 (NB CA)
Ambrose v. The Queen, 1976 CanLII 201 (SCC), [1977] 2 SCR 717

More sources and further reading at darkpoutine.com

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Episode 124 – Women and girls, many indigenous have been going missing in the area of Northern British Columbia’s Highway 16 since 1969. The route has become known as the Highway of Tears. Many have been found deceased and still others have just vanished. In this episode we cover the murders of Jill Stuchenko, Natasha Montgomery, Cynthia Maas and Loren Leslie. All four were killed over a span of 14 months by a violent and cold blooded monster with a baby face, a serial killer named Cody Alan Legebokoff of Prince George, B.C.

Sources and Further Reading:
[2013 BCSC 2178 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2014 BCSC 315 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2014 BCSC 1636 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2014 BCSC 1746 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2016 BCCA 386 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[Legebokoff interview 2 by PGCitizen | Free Listening on SoundCloud]
[goodreads.com – Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid]
[Global News – SEARCH: Legebokoff]
[Legebokoff Trial | Prince George Citizen]
[Legebokoff evidence | Prince George Citizen]
[Who is Cody Alan Legebokoff?  | Globalnews.ca]
[Families of Legebokoff victims give emotional statements at sentencing hearing]
[HighwayofTears.org]
[Home – Highway of Tears Film]
[“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” (cover) by Natasha Montgomery – YouTube]

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Episode 123 – Born during the Great Depression, Ken Leishman was a stylish, good looking guy with a Clark Gable moustache. A married father of 7, he was adventurous, smart, charismatic, creative and enterprising. He used his skill as a small aircraft pilot to earn cash first as a fly in mechanic on prairie farms, then as a king cookery salesman. 

Ken was also deeply in debt, his sales business was failing and he craved an even more lavish lifestyle. To get what he wanted Ken wasn’t above stealing it, but often got caught going back for more. After flying all the way to Toronto to rob banks on two separate occasions Ken was dubbed the Flying Bandit after getting caught during his second failed bank robbery.

After Ken’s release, he had an even more elaborate heist in mind – making off with a few hundred pounds of gold bullion in what would be the greatest gold theft in Canadian history.

Sources:
[Bandit – A portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs] 
[Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian Aviation by Shirlee Smith Matheson] 
[In the Mind of a Mountie – Google Play]
[This Was Manitoba: Kenneth Leishman – The Flying Bandit (UPDATED)]
[Ottawa Citizen – Ken Leishman – Google News Archive Search]
[Newspapers.com search – Ken Leishman + Canada]
[Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit – video dailymotion]
[Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit – YouTube]
[Court Briefing for 1966 trial of Ken Leishman et al, Winnipeg Gold Heist]
[The Flying Bandit – Winnipeg Free Press]
[Canada history: Mar.1, 1966: the Great Winnipeg Gold Heist – RCI | English]
[The Flying Bandit – Winnipeg Free Press]
[The ‘flying bank robber’ died hard | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 29, 1980]

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