Episode 2 - Grace Marks
The Irish in Canada Podcast
English - October 06, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBEducation history irish canada irish-canadian canadian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In late July 1843, the colony of Upper Canada was stunned with the news of a bloody double-murder. Thomas Kinnear had been shot and Nancy Montgomery – his housekeeper and pregnant mistress – had been strangled and dismembered. The two people accused of the murders were Kinnear’s Irish servants: James McDermott and the teenager, Grace Marks. Grace’s story has since become one of the most famous fictionalised episodes from nineteenth century Canada, but what was the real Grace like?