Posts tagged RCMP
A Student At St. Mary’s Residential School

When Blanche Bruisedhead was 7, an RCMP Officer and priest threatened her parents with jail time if they didn’t send their daughter to St. Mary’s Residential School. Read Blanche’s account of her time at St. Mary’s.

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Article, Indigenous HistoryBlanche BruisedheadGalt Museum & ArchivesBlanche, Blanche Bruisedhead, Residential School, St. Mary's Residential School, Reconciliation, Blackfoot, Niitsitapi, Culture, Museum, Canada, Cardston, Stand Off, RCMP, Police, Priest, Nun, Catholic, Roman CatholicComment
Did you know there is a length of rope used as a noose in our discovery hall?
Did you know there is a length of rope used as a noose in our discovery hall?

Over the past several years we have received several items from the family of Edward Buchanan related to his time as a Staff Sergeant with the RCMP in Lethbridge. One of those items was a section of thick rope that his son Ted tells us was used in the penultimate execution by hanging carried out in Lethbridge in the late 1940s. Ted attended the hanging, and his father acted as the executioner.

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Galt's Vaults, Online PresentationKevin MacLeanGalt Museum & ArchivesNoose, Rope, Hanging, Execution, RCMP, Buchanan, CollectionsComment