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On May 8, 1984, a man with a beard, dressed in Canadian Forces camouflage attire and wearing a beret, entered the studios of CJRP, a radio station in Quebec City. Employees at the station noticed the man had a knife secured to his leg. The man approached the assistant to radio host André Arthur’s assistant, presented her with an envelope while introducing himself as “Mr. D.” and promptly left. The man was later identified as Denis Lortie, a 25-year-old disgruntled Canadian Forces corporal who then entered the Citadelle de Quebec to commit a mass shooting of members of the National Assembly of Quebec. He opened fire, killing three unelected legislature employees, Georges Boyer, 61, Camille Lepage, 54, and Roger Lefrançois, 57. He injured thirteen others before being apprehended, thanks to the heroism of René Marc Jalbert, a retired Canadian Forces officer and the sergeant-at-arms of the National Assembly of Quebec. Lortie’s actions shocked the nation and prompted discussions on security measures and political extremism. Jalbert’s earned him the Cross of Valour, Canada’s highest civilian bravery award.

Having just set out from Quebec City the previous day, in the early hours of May 29, 1914, the passenger ship Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River near Rimouski, Quebec. She was on a return trip to Liverpool, England and due to heavy fog, the ship collided with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad. Just two years after the Titanic calamity in international waters off the coast of Nova Scotia came the deadliest shipwreck in Canadian history. The event was so significant it is number 11 on the list of deadliest all-time Canadian disasters, just behind number 10, the Halifax Explosion. The collision occurred when most of the 1,057 passengers and 420 crew members were fast asleep. The aftermath was devastating; the liner plummeted beneath the waters in less than a quarter of an hour, resulting in the tragic loss of more than 1,000 lives.

In Montreal, Quebec on the evening of April 10, 1734, a fire broke out in the home of Madame de Francheville on Rue Saint-Paul and quickly spread throughout the city. Raging for hours, it destroyed over 46 buildings, primarily residential homes, and the Hôtel-Dieu, a hospital that provided medical care to soldiers and people who were too poor to care for at home. There were rumours that Madame de Francheville’s Portuguese-born black enslaved woman, Marie-Josèphe dite Angélique, started the fire as an act of rebellion on learning she was to be sold and sent away from her lover, a white man and salt trafficker named Claude Thibault. Angélique was arrested and subsequently tortured until she confessed to setting the fire. She was then convicted of arson and hanged on June 21, 1734. The fire significantly impacted Montreal’s development and created new building codes and fire prevention measures. The event remains integral to Montreal’s cultural and historical heritage and yet another dark spot in Canada’s history. Some have called Angélique a heroine, others a scapegoat. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is lost to time.

After she’d been missing only one day, on the evening of May 7th, 2002, the body of 14-year-old Jessica Grimard was discovered by her father in a stream within a wooded area near her home in Rivière-des-Prairies, a suburban borough on the eastern tip of the city of Montreal, Quebec. As her killer had placed Jessica in the water, washing away evidence, there was not much for the cops to go on. At first, police considered that Jessica had been killed by someone known to her. However, thanks to a few strange twists, the case would head in a new direction, eventually leading to the capture of a known sexual predator and suspected serial killer who had bragged about his crimes. The boasting included confessions of responsibility for two other 1993 deaths around Montreal, initially ruled accidental, that of 12-year-old Christine Speich and 20-year-old Anna Lisa Cefali. The killer had used water and fire to cover his crimes.

Episode 216: In Quebec, on April 15, 1763, after a supposed confession and hasty trial by an English military tribunal, 30-year-old Marie-Josephte Corriveau was convicted of murdering in brutal fashion her second husband, Louis-Étienne Dodier, and was sentenced to death. She was hanged with haste, three days later. Her body was then put on display in a form-fitting metal cage and placed at a crossroad where for the next five weeks, she stood as a warning to others considering domestic homicide as an answer to an unhappy marriage. When her cage disappeared locals believed that the Devil himself had come and taken Marie-Josephte to hell. It said that La Corriveau's spectre haunts the crossroads still.Sources:Marie-Josephte Corriveau - WikipediaUncertain Justice by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery - Ebook | ScribdKilling Women by Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Ebook | ScribdThe History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley - Ebook | ScribdLa destinée de la Corriveau « Histoire du QuébecLégende de la Corriveau – Voyage à travers le QuébecLes anciens Canadiens - Philippe Aubert de GaspéIl était cent fois La Corriveau : anthologie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchivePressReader.com - Macabre DiscoveryCanadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the DisturbingBiography – CORRIVEAU, MARIE-JOSEPHTE, La Corriveau – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian BiographyThe Legend of La Corriveau: Québécois Folklore and The Politics of Nation-Making in Canada by Leslie SavathLa Corriveau: A woman victim of Society? by Isabelle ParentView of From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage | Studies in Canadian LiteratureLa Corriveau | The Canadian EncyclopediaThe Hanging Cage That Held An Infamous Québec Murderess - Atlas ObscuraCanadian Urban Legends: La Corriveau of Quebec City | NUVOA Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence - UBC Library Open CollectionsA Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau - KooZA/rchClassic French-Canadian Folktales: Volume I (English Edition; Annotated) eBook : Beaugrand, Honore, Frechette, Louis-Honore, Peters, Hammerson: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreCage of la Corriveau on display in Lévis | CBC NewsLa Corriveau: The Gibbet of Quebec — YouTubeFrench Mourning in the 1700s - Geri WaltonSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 204: Between 1957 and 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, experiments were undertaken that compromised and invaded people’s minds, their agency to make decisions for themselves removed and their brains mucked about in, both physically and psychologically. These barbaric, Orwellian experiments often involved mind expanding drugs like LSD, sensory deprivation, shock treatments and periods of sleep induced for weeks at a time as well as other treatments that could easily be called torturous. They were sponsored by the most notorious branch of the United States government, the CIA, the Canadian government as well as other shadowy organizations with funding coming even from the Rockefellers. The goals behind the research, it seems were to develop brainwashed, zombie-like ‘recruits’ who would do the bidding of these groups without question or conscience getting in the way and to develop new methods of psychological torture to aid in enemy interrogation. All of it took place right here in Canada. The research was overseen by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, an eminent and well-respected psychiatrist at McGill University’s, Allan Memorial Institute with unwitting Canadian psychiatric patients used as Guinae pigs. The project was called MK-ULTRA.Sources:D. Ewen Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.Donald Ewen CameronDonald Ewen Cameron | The McClaughry’s BlogCIA MKULTRA / Mind Control Collection - The Black VaultMKULTRA files : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Most Dangerous Game : Josh Shore, Paul Shore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Curious Career of Dr. Ewen CameronPsychological Warfare | RANDMind Control & MK-ULTRAMK Ultra Project - Commission on Assisted DyingGeorge Cooper Report Ewen Cameron, 1986 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate — YouTubeBrainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada - The Fifth Estate — YouTubeCIA Mind Control Survivors Seek Restitution From Canadian GovernmentSAAGA — Survivors Against Government AbuseBrainwashed | CBC Podcasts | CBC ListenRavenscrag, Montreal - WikipediaAllan Memorial Institute - WikipediaProject MKULTRA - McGillDeclassified: Mind Control at McGill | The McGill TribuneReader CIA Brainwashing McIntoshMontreal MKULTRA Experiments | The Canadian EncyclopediaThe toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | Canada | The GuardianVictims of CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Program Are Fighting Back | GaiaMind Wars by Marie D. Jones | GoodreadsThe Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control by John D. Marks | GoodreadsPoisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer | GoodreadsMaisonneuve | Distant RelativesTrudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says | CBC NewsBrainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA | CBC NewsSocial Media and the BrainUS claims Russia planning ‘false-flag’ operation to justify Ukraine invasion | Russia | The GuardianSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 198: If you’ve had any interest in the Wild West, you’ve no doubt heard of a many of the storied gunmen and bandits from the era like Butch Cassidy, Jesse James and Billy the Kid. You probably also think of the United States, but Canada has its own legends and colourful characters from the era on both sides of the border. For example, legendary gunslinger and lawman, Bat Masterson, was was born in Henryville, Quebec. Sometimes the outlaws were women, like one notorious Canadian-born, lady bandit and the subject of this episode, whose most famous alias was Pearl Hart. After a rough life with criminal exploits that started during her troubled childhood, Pearl got herself into big trouble in Arizona in 1899 and was finally taken into custody after robbing a stage coach.Sources:Pearl Hart - WikipediaPearl Hart – Lady Bandit of Arizona – Legends of AmericaBandit Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach - HISTORYThe life and times of Pearl Hart, Ontario’s cigar-smoking, Wild West superstar | The StarPearl Hart: The Amazing Life of The Bandit QueenFemale bandit Pearl Hart: “I shall not be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making”The wild life and death of Old West feminist bandit Pearl HartPearl Hart - ‘Bandit Queen’ of the Old West - WednesdaysWomenPearl Hart, the Last Lady Outlaw - HeadStuffWild Women of the Wild West: Pearl Hart ~ Lady Bandit of ArizonaListen to Wildcat Audiobook by John BoesseneckerThe Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters - Leon Claire Metz - Google BooksThe Cosmopolitan — Volume 27 — Google Play BooksPearl Hart: Smooth-talking card shark led Pearl’s slide to perdition | Local news | tucson.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 189: Starting in 1963 and stretching over the next seven years, a militant French separatist group called the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorized La Belle Province. Their aim was to overthrow the Quebec government and leave Canada creating an independent Marxist- Leninist Quebec state. By 1970 the group had committed more than 200 violent criminal and terroristic acts including, bombings and high profile kidnappings. The group’s activities ultimately claimed the lives of eight people, including a Quebec provincial cabinet minister, and injured many more, before then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, finding himself out of options, enacted the 1914 War Measures act to stem the violence of the October Crisis of 1970.Sources:Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec - WikipediaCBC Archives — What is the FLQ?Web Archive | McGill.ca — October Crisis 1970October Crisis - Canada’s Human Rights HistoryFLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) - SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM | Office of Justice ProgramsThe Making of the October Crisis: Canada’s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ by D’Arcy JenishRead Hostages Online by Gordon Kerr | BooksRead Terror Threat Online by Dwight Hamilton and Kostas Rimsa | BooksRead The Night Canada Stood Still Online by Robert Wright | BooksRead Trudeaumania Online by Robert Wright | BooksRead October Crisis: 50 Years After A Bloody Spasm That Nearly Tore Canada ApartDEMOCRACY VERSUS TERRORISM: FLQ TERRORISM IN QUEBEC, A CASE STUDY on JSTORThe Terrorist Activities of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) - The Beginning of a New EraPierre Vallières (1937-1998) - The Beginning of a New EraFront de libération du Québec (FLQ) | The Canadian EncyclopediaTHE FLQ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION by Lorne WestonThe FLQ Crisis – VALOUR CANADASummary · Task Force on Kidnapping: The Department of External Affairs’ Files on the October Crisis · Canada Declassified« Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)» : tous nos articles | Le DevoirPierre Laporte - WikipediaJames Cross - WikipediaFrançois Schirm — WikipédiaEdmond Guénette — WikipédiaCommission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceRoyal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP - WikipediaOctober Crisis: Who was Pierre Laporte, really? | Montreal GazetteLa police connaissait les ravisseurs de Cross et Laporte | Radio-Canada.caGlobal News — Search: FLQCanada - The Trudeau years, 1968–84 | BritannicaRegina v. Vallieres, 1969 CanLII 1000 (QC CA), Regina v. Vallieres, 1973 CanLII 1418 (QC CA), R. v. Cossette-Trudel, 1979 CanLII 2876 (QC CQ), The Quiet RevolutionChronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath - Quebec HistoryMessage of the FLQ to the Nation 1963YouTube — Trudeau: Just watch meJust watch me - WikipediaSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 188: In early October of 1994, during a bizarre, nearly simultaneous sequence of murder / suicides, in Quebec, and across the Atlantic in Switzerland, 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in burned out buildings. The deaths fulfilled what the cult’s leaders claimed was the group’s “final transit” or return to Unity with God required before the impending end of the world. Even though it appeared to be over, more cult members were yet to die. Over a year later, in December of 1995, sixteen members of the cult died in France. More than a year after that, in march 1997, another five cult members died in Quebec bringing the death toll to 74. The cult’s two founders, Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro, were among the dead in 1994, however, some fear there may be future related mass murder / suicides by followers still practicing in secret.Sources:Cult Education Institute :: The Order of the Solar TempleOrder of the Solar Temple - Wikipedia12 Disturbing Secrets Of The Order Of The Solar Temple CultThe Cult of the Sun and the Cult of the Dead in Egypt on JSTORRead Doomsday Cults: The Devil’s Hostages Online by Alan R. Warren | BooksRead Killer Cults Online by Stephen Singular | BooksRead Cults that Kill Online by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar | BooksRead Rampage Online by Lee Mellor | BooksGlass: Akhnaten - Album by Philip Glass, Dennis Russell Davies | Spotify“Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end”: the last voyage of the Solar Temple(PDF) The Magic of Death: The Suicides of the Solar Temple | Massimo Introvigne - Academia.eduCBC Archives — The madness begins for the Solar Temple cultCBC Archives — Solar Temple cult leader Joseph Di Mambro confirmed deadMichel Tabachnik - WikipediaSwiss conductor acquitted of sect killings - SWI swissinfo.chJoseph Di Mambro | Article about Joseph Di Mambro by The Free DictionaryHistory Canada: October 4,1994: An international cult tragedy begins – RCI | EnglishCult Intervention :: Cult Education InstituteHomeopathy | HealthLink BChttps://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 183 - Early on a cold morning on January 7, 1922, two Montreal city Public Works Department employees, on their way to their works shed, discovered the body of a man laying on the frozen ground near the corners of Coolbrook and Snowden Street. The man, who’d been shot was later identified by a Catholic Priest named Adélard Delorme as his half-brother, Raoul Delorme. When police investigated they were surprised that their evidence pointed to one, very unusual suspect. This case would become important, not only for the oddity of its perpetrator and the groundbreaking forensics used to break the case but also for its shocking outcome. Sources: My version of the Delorme case : Farah-Lajoie, Georges Delorme v. Sisters of Charity of Quebec, 1922 CanLII 656 (QC CQ) 1868-1996 - The Delorme Affair - Interactive Investigator L’affaire Delorme — On ne juge pas un prêtre Acquittement de l’abbé Joseph-Adélard Delorme d’une accusation de meurtre Georges Farah-Lajoie — Wikipédia Newspapers.com — Search: Adelard Delorme L’affaire Delorme 1922: un procès qui souleva les passions - Instantanés Georges Farah-Lajoie | Mémoires des Montréalais History of Forensic Science in Canada | Famous Canadian Crimes: The Delorme Affair Rigorous Science - Canada’s History Cassock and the Crown: Canada’s Most Controversial Murder Trial - Jean Monet - Google Books Scribd | For I Have Sinned Online by John Glatt | Books La soutane et la couronne : le procès du siècle : l’affaire Delorme : Monet, Jean, 1932 Biographie – DEROME, WILFRID (baptisé Joseph-Wilfrid) – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionnaire biographique du Canada Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine