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Crime and Justice Events
- 1600 - First Aboriginals (Beothuk Indians) killed by Europeans in Newfoundland - 1,000-2,000 killed to 1829
- June 11, 1611 - **Henry Hudson Cast Adrift by Mutineers
- April 7, 1868 - **D'Arcy McGee Assassinated
- 1873 - **Cypress Hills Massacre in Southern Alberta
- 1873 - **Founding of the North-West Mounted Police
- 1942 - Arsonist Sets Knights of Columbus Hostel Fire, St. John's, Newfoundland - 99 killed
- September 9, 1949 - Bomb explodes on Québec Air DC3 65 km east of Québec, Québec - 23 killed
- July 8, 1965 - CP Air DC6B explodes and crashes at Dog Cree, west of 100-Mile House, BC (Saboteur on Board) - 52 killed
- June 23, 1985 - **Air India Bombing - Air India Flight 182, Terrorist bomb blows up Boeing 747 off Ireland; 280 Canadians aboard - 329 killed
- December 6, 1989 - **Gunman Kills 14 Women Students in Montréal Massacre - Fourteen female engineering students are separated from their male colleagues and murdered by gunman Marc Lépine at the University of Montréal's École Polytechnique Montréal, Québec - 15 killed
- May 18, 1995 - Paul Bernardo put on trial, accused of the murder and torture of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristin French. Toronto, Ontario
- April 5, 1995 - Gunman Mark Chahal kills kills nine relatives and then himself in Vernon, BC.
- April 8, 2006 - Bodies of eight members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang found in a farmer's field near the small town of Shedden, about 30 km southwest of London, Ontario; police later described one of Canada's worst mass murders as an "internal cleansing" of the biker gang. Shedden, Ontario
