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Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 (Canadian Social History Series)
Walk Towards the Gallows The Tragedy of Hilda Blake Hanged 1899 - Canadian Social History Series
Author: Tom Mitchell, Reinhold Kramer
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802095428
ISBN-10: 0802095429
Publication Date: 4/28/2007
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Book Type: Paperback
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