Mainland 4 - The Hanging Judge (Begbie!)

Mainland

English - November 01, 2018 21:00 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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Joel and Natalie answer the age-old BCer question: who was Judge Begbie? Why was he called the Hanging Judge? How do we judge a judge who did some cool, progressive stuff, and some not-so-cool, not-exactly-progressive stuff?

Resources/more reading:
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/begbie_ma…baillie_12E.html;
web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/lawdemo/…ebread/loo93.htm;
www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klatsa…s/208en.html;
nationalpost.com/news/canada/what…ion-from-trudeau;

Also, check out Ghostly Vancouver Tours. We're not sponsored by them, but Joel was reminded of this story by them, and they give some really cool tours. www.ghostlyvancouvertours.com/

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In this episode's ad for Cascadia, we used Cool Blast by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

Intro and outro music is written and performed by Joel Mackenzie. See his music at joelmackenzie.bandcamp.com.