Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
Ebook403 pages5 hours

The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

()

Read preview

About this ebook

Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fiction

Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed?

Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. — the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia — was shot to death by his own men. They claimed it was an act of self-defence, their only means of stopping the violent rampage of their drunk and abusive leader. Sir George Simpson, the HBC's Overseas Governor, took the men of Stikine at their word, and the Company closed the book on the matter. The case never saw the inside of a courtroom, and no one was ever charged or punished for the crime. To this day, the killing remains the Honourable Company's dirtiest unaired laundry and one of the darkest pages in the annals of our nation's history. Now, exhaustive archival research and modern forensic science — including ballistics, virtual autopsy, and crime scene reconstruction — unlock the mystery of what really happened the night McLoughlin died.

Using her formidable talents as a writer, researcher, and forensic scientist, Debra Komar weaves a tale that could almost be fiction, with larger-than-life characters and dramatic tension. In telling the story of John McLoughlin, Jr., Komar also tells the story of Canada's north and its connection to the Hudson's Bay Company.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 5, 2015
ISBN9780864927811
The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
Author

Debra Komar

Debra Komar is the author of The Ballad of Jacob Peck, The Lynching of Peter Wheeler, The Bastard of Fort Stikine, which won the 2016 Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, and, most recently, Black River Road. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a practicing forensic anthropologist for over twenty years, she investigated human-rights violations for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights. She has testified as an expert witness at The Hague and throughout North America and is the author of many scholarly articles and a textbook, Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice.

Read more from Debra Komar

Related to The Bastard of Fort Stikine

Related ebooks

Criminals & Outlaws For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for The Bastard of Fort Stikine

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings

0 ratings0 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

    Book preview

    The Bastard of Fort Stikine - Debra Komar

     Hfbook_preview_excerpt.html}˒Fj-Ef!$KIIUfxD@Cp QnV3S1'%sι"Tf#1#}{_ε< ׾y.)~(}}:]_-\[:۸CplX7/66عf/:/.ڢ޻Ǯ0lǶs|[?ݶ[_vu+zh~>V11c$1#XWc_yvm|*^`Owa.w =պ t.Za3*5aR9ܾ; KyAUno ֮ۄc*+vuD5 ^߇{YmSupkSY*OdWg]} {PopXiW W=dPZ> ׄv; E_owC+[Y476M]^ո[8;ds=EyBM=xƛU_.4vzVjn} ZebL~S|ǎC^Xq*m_7Ol4Wujo!__=*L+]963`hq6~_\ /Gx䔱%Pl[Я5zqV-^*j_8%ɷn.Sw]Wy}^nM ٲɧa\c /! MfT=䢀) |к;P]b I G)Pv}-._=g`l u_{WxXQH&US8B_mGw--oL\Ɵ}gx:\75x{Y3lw^yfKwc;Wy+y s1PKc͝@`Veӏ\_,6WwށRn%bt>fqN۬ɲbG,H.KoP¡-=_xvkwLwP+P*~ɳzْ$+>pdVkWTVQbOcBh}mݪCa±u&dϛF6$Awmö4`T+`0Bt/Yϫ&Vn=F6GOi[>0o"pWⵇW6fRzzf ,e>r9iQ܎dҹF~:;0nw0ΗRhi(3 Ẇ!wCHZ;Xۛ-?i.#F<XԧXzؙošK؊7 ,"*1Բi(]45SRLke +,6'YFad%= ݏG6:9ƏNj/Ҹag_(CDR_γhb.7#}EtUA^p Gaz>ypN鏿㊟~:=Y '(k !a΀G[+1* =,{zOv=gh.N׿!օ;T!'.lG.;D'n[i1ݝ"C1?8PB̦_M-RY]JiEdFi`n+~+ѴGXh ]}3}qûg_tsl&.y%=,>هui~ݥ72GfйwEw>,Yპ|q[\lV9+.7xpm㵈ޚpdͿn xg>Nw?3?{x;_<ѽ >;? :)郳ϟ m84 GǮ Oqɓ0%mD9-CµSdV0/8)O<~ O`j!9O!|ϰFu;4yOƆoM=}WLxiB>Z|! B#t &dXI$x}o8ft/M',Wx#yCEWum &Kq?CۧA1ť_Bk7z{X궑0{W?HHW7=X5~i?/C q5?dJwOŒ[޳!+г埚ȳsx[màSdۺ}i.cڝ#tޣ߱9~O'y2+BZc~׭2!z˞CNJAeNy{䉋0ʏ=_t>? >F uQDX˰bU(.p-q ͷ7ZAijL.`9xOc"Lٙ Dwm{ٗ [~} 93Xš\: >2zT~p%1 :1k^(mu$3JV1;Xq"հ*.T!oE8\cA(B x*;: ڌV%ѹ,@6?ƵU2Xٸ1{a 4L8sW )1C <5KL;Z!##Dl7V'm >6^A`]@Jۡ6bk=?ہ۰<"Dq!Hi@5 +WP>WPcw_13YyRP9}]WAQ4mlXP.ƜՃ_"Ih"wa 7Xs1̭ ./JU4bAfX%g{0Fz$Sa! #\edȧD3r,Zo|#6OWsC8}0egpr~lص(M ACwyy0bv@;zrM[m^MCrsIc<y,kT%HQv9g8((nwg]65,oW ݏG/Ȇu]Sة=.)0!U'q$wU{ݽbtAxOJ&GO;Yطh&:@bD fzK=jgZӜ߄W1J<'ˇBL6g ?2@=?'Y 5.U)[@=C&#yNh<gMXilZ$H?WFPhw`U2>OSa|c,w*ѨFڭWf)z%(tgSOk/:v_9XpىdwCV9#^4oECE*Ѯ{iG?/eFA|27'Dܘ(V,kتHeg11tn!h|>;OejęC41QHB5Q m(dy``F U۾czO2fe9)Z$Gh6UVv 8X,p>}r {`*:eC% 1QH @$в]#Vb"f]<ݽ!|5ܗ"L-9ui;/^QO&ܫ@q I{E KHY͉҂dY[Ť){Ai`mI: zr_?0D}ɯLLͬ ]nn?X?zbmH>p3@3z E CǐMbɨJiؖ}?odU2zl'a [dXh*1Id$lk 7 J@eRpg*FziXuUoTnS|l2@Sg̍]-2^Z3e/憓 ]+Hl2wq$Phq!M@i\r+9ƾqгΩ PSdS[K ", 'YS&M(2a}t6ve"h`ԛp-,6q4mJM@ٸȲ*E`ЉNjCT Kd\OWʃHZAJ sBC5) [a dCӬ1zvOw^(ڐMSONrU^rlw٬ŜTXVAl6.=r&\$h1)/ʿRFӸO|Zm7JbŭJ͸-<7 (S,wK"!6]:즓\p,yc%wG!5LmB}GH8nUu5-;/t-9H| RLiV}Ks rJ 0x  7>m! %8a ^bC#Ǿḥpס7pw'Az|zL!ޭ@m~ r{ඪVmB*1e}τt)-x':QRAE}W 7ZQ%thl'a"eX-.k۱0jh|Rɑl& r*59ИjY2Ŵk`Ce=1z·] 2xC%R *ϋ"w E 4bD',)k:+㶤W|Jb}w$%cH9҆yNsVGaOZl'v^e=,[7n*)P>\"I7qTW-(i]ŸZS-X(egc4,U3tu,>x1 m}9m`IlHJpc&p \294 Loۘ5)bQrib?H#ױ ] ,Dr9Ij0YXQtb<S䵚񆨙H-ޗEbT".3"G^U3VN]kPZV_"pSynx@\DG݉*9fz /c[2Z1؟!6Έ>*qNBEd] SNKMA2mkڴ_ J۔3NV#n5x'bl}Jœz̛&Rg-%J9>Ct1q%2l5L48ry B@p1HŇ00  EsM]_w 4PV>w OO[YuCmșksmrV݃k.E@{|x)=nM)oG=ÿF<w-ZK#|;_ȑ/qS?JʉbW(|T+bѡ+Y,< ORαU` D!eOÔM oZu_:mղ詹/ϭs?;&}bذLD=طd92 6RAzQLaoe* C~>_ܿw2Ig1 n[KiF# t^II[Sݐ81Ne-fC@TȝkRUAnTr1Q6dR wIZ,CJ:#lZ%vl"&ws0 BE!'S@7y`HY*sJ0etg sٽv qN1@|*|.zK'|(z1kO!zl -(۩Ġ6,JegkB.L&mBI-)iH$&5ر^r*A015ԑ n#q~j/;Xͩ+!Y圧M: ҆| ˕9B%P \__:]qZmuYDk9j  #{!<үhc~OV&'gtcAوl '/͆A@ N|sj 8nWKx2v& 1Zgp`̭@Vs7ky#XI͔U4SsPv?\C$u6WjpԚЋTYFF+Vuo(6OZjlL`L+WiLn-Ns,:S;=`U*l77HtmNhȹ"3C94nTC"^AMIKRReX)G>|'Humz[+e&aN@gub"O4VRد)&>NOEo%hTpwɑw2̴'/I 5l-FMf"uDlgV4ƥ( NډѼ}nˌ-TU2?Ү0÷#ZJjn(XiI"JU&/K%gA Ҹf]-[k@ZMa8r/#yU9 Ro#|m/)ɪPYY [[rJ܁Hn1072ZARѰ**ɁJ1p*`*a L>]/ /b(ٹ1-VUEκ{(3.1YBu@+t2s"caPo?4l\B#/MGĀDGC#)ZzZ6I)n~u*<%./|6Vߎ*bV7!?J$t~ƭI,bN} 7:iH2mɻy*^f:@,l=K~|脗EyZlڡ4N;V0)Ez*mµ+94oJ1,ۣ->w\ӅVpe(bph) ިJZ>(d w$geS! R>;kuvxQʙl śD!,aPX0kfy=kt𸞈l_MH̹tʸ2߳d '\7H;`:ivMPB 9َlK6d[}5e?P-=kHvm[ dkOkZJ'&DALI[){$v kRR1S"_N=+/?8=?9܉%QU:{\}- 0W:Xwh(wTnɱ_Cei'EradrH 3ve%"SZcE Mgm>b㰫SNG> ׉$ʬb)Rߟք5si͇!KNF+bZ 3xcX=́dzanѤ!'ƋZk:ӌxVڙ!mz@MnE8Zg>'$FG/,O R]Eg<#v :e˽ޔ\2 u]əFRq+9ZrJFY'DT6dpr2'EXډ =iwc5qtdQ8\YѷrwNLz㍮ѡx#6W3 yYt˦ZoR´_d}6]Mɹj\gM):{sFAM4'lJ*Y?VD^hPl*8p/],[CQu,}B6'Sڨa?WpjϘ:3+. }I_ qYɭ)8MOu^w'ĺ"ƺv̏zS窣e_@B:?8䣊tZ?d{ndI$HtUO)MiFy%*BjϪt~vҐ^fļڹ' 1t`f@>窵8.]6XV5Bi=J*I/֑jSި+̊=0G,2h:=PD )YDŽߠC=Ch [M,@7dBm3o|W,;+!cj,LjǍOrWWW9z+ ;:N8I RչN)$y)5XW&rX]#)OAkXUUba:1q #`̇bbbھ{__M CYإo"R[t |,PU(ŏ%`GY5N Qțr/D'~&޽w0&8ok0OaLVG(2NUc+c 6@-$]J&>su
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1