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Honouring our fallen officers |
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Web - Government of Canada, Correctional Service memorial page |
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http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/about-us/006-0011-eng.shtml
Retrieved 27 Apr 2018. |
| Source ID |
S636 |
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Honouring our fallen officers
Since 1835 - and before Canada was a country - thousands of correctional employees dedicated their careers to keeping us safe through their work in federal corrections. In more than 180 years, 34 individuals – two women and 32 men – have given their lives to protect our communities.
Our fallen colleagues were working either as correctional officers, parole officers, managers, program officers, project officers or instructors when they died while carrying out their duties.
We honour their memories and their service to public safety.
Henry Traill
Guard
Kingston Penitentiary
July 7, 1870
Within a year of joining the staff of Kingston Penitentiary, Guard Henry Traill was attacked and killed during an escape attempt. He had been supervising two inmates on the outer penitentiary reserve. The inmates were keeping the fires burning in the lime kiln during the lunch hour, while the rest of the quarry gang was marched back to the penitentiary for their noon-time meal.
Reports say that, on this fatal day, Traill was sitting on a wheelbarrow just inside the door of the lime-house with his rifle across his lap. Once the quarry gang was out of sight, inmate John Smith distracted the officer by showing him some small bones that he had carved into ornaments. At that moment, another inmate, Daniel Mann, approached the officer from behind and clubbed him over the head with an ironwood sleigh stake, severing his carotid artery in the process. Not realizing that they had killed the officer, the two inmates bound Traill, placed a rolled up coat under his head, stole his firearm and uniform tunic, and escaped.
After an 11-day manhunt, they were caught by a group of farmers while hiding in a swampy part of Graham Lake north of Brockville. Smith got an additional 14 years and Mann was hanged on Dec. 14, 1870, at the Frontenac County Gaol in Kingston.
[... followed by stories of other fallen officers...] |
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Thomas Henry Strickland ("Harry") Traill |
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