Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History

Like most Victorian women, Ada Maria Mills Redpath and Amy Redpath Roddick spent lots of time at home. Rose Shallow, their loyal servant, kept the household running, allowing Amy time for activities outside the home that she duly recorded in her diaries. Explore some of her diaries though the archives section of our MysterySite “The Redpath Mansion Mystery” 🔎➡https://bit.ly/3JxBYHL

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Amy Redpath Roddick was the first-born child and only daughter of Ada Mills and John James Redpath. Born on May 16, 1868, she spent her infancy in Europe. Before her wedding to the distinguished physician Dr. Thomas Roddick on September 3, 1906 at the age of 38, Amy seemed uninterested in marriage. She never identified any suitors nor expressed any desire for marriage in her diaries. Rather, these journals reveal a strong devotion to her ailing mother and brothers. She took on the role of family matriarch, managing the household and tending to her mother and siblings’ ailments and needs. Amy hired the household staff, paid the bills, organized repairs, renovations, and spring cleaning, and did the family shopping. She had a staff of live-in servants, a handyman, a gardener, a char woman, a sewing girl, and a nurse for Ada. Amy accompanied her mother to medical and dental appointments and kept vigil at Ada’s bedside during particularly difficult days and nights. She even rewrote Clifford’s law lectures to facilitate his studying for exams.

Amy had a passion for languages, literature, and theatre. Throughout her marriage and widowhood, she wrote and published poems and plays. Her days were spent in a round of visiting, shopping, attending lectures, receiving visitors for afternoon tea and dinner, as was fashionable for young women of her social class. Her social space was clearly defined and consisted primarily of the Square Mile, Mount Royal Park, Westmount, shopping along St Catherine Street, and occasional summer rides to the countryside. She traveled regularly to Europe and to upper New York State.

Amy was a generous benefactor of McGill University and donated the Roddick Gates to the institution in 1924 to commemorate her late husband. She also memorialized brothers Clifford and Peter in a donation to the Redpath Library. On her death in 1954, she bequeathed $120,000 to the library. Not having children of her own, she divided the remainder of her estate amongst her surviving niece and nephews.

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Title: Mrs. Sylvia Stark (aged 92) with apples from her orchard, Saltspring Island
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: BCA
Reference Number: A-01726

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Lady Jane Franklin was the wife of British explorer Sir John Franklin. When Franklin’s third Arctic expedition failed to return by 1847, Lady Franklin initiated tireless efforts to press British and American governments to search for his missing party. Seven of these expeditions were sponsored by her directly.

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Here's one of our favourite photos from the section of our "Who Discovered Klondike Gold?"

“No Place for Ladies”
Klondike News
April 1, 1898
"Considerable indignation was caused amongst the ladies of Dawson, on account of the statement in one of the sensational coast papers to the effect that the Klondike was no place for ladies. This is reported to have come from Mrs. Clarence Berry, and in an interview she is supposed to have said that it was unsafe for a lady to walk on the streets of Dawson, owing to the rowdyism and incivility of the miners.
We do not believe that Mrs. Berry was guilty of such a misrepresentation of Klondike gallantry. That the papers printed such a statement is true enough, in what was supposed to be an interview, but it is quite likely that she is not the author of such a falsehood. The miners of Dawson have a high degree of chivalry, and a more gentlemanly and manly lot have never been thrown together in any one town."
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16 "Opposition to slavery in New France" invites students ages 14-18 to take on the role of a person against slavery living in 18th century New France. However, your opinions are in the minority and you fear that raising such issues in public may cause trouble for you...Instead, you will write a letter to your family explaining why you are against slavery and why they should free the enslaved persons they have in their house.
First, you will read about life in New France. You will also learn to make inferences from the evidence you find here about the thinking of people in New France who opposed slavery. Finally, you will construct a dialogue between yourself — the conscientious objector — and your family, explaining why you are against slavery.
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CyberMystère 16: Opposition à l’esclavage en Nouvelle-France.
Un défi de pensée critique pour les élèves de 14 à 18 ans.
Dans le cadre de ce CyberMystère, vous jouerez le rôle d’une personne vivant en Nouvelle-France au dix-huitième siècle et s’opposant à l’esclavage. Toutefois, votre opinion va à l’encontre de la majorité et vous craignez que de soulever de telles questions sur la place publique ne vous cause des ennuis. C’est pourquoi vous écrirez plutôt une lettre aux membres de votre famille dans laquelle vous leur expliquerez pourquoi vous vous opposez à l’esclavage et pourquoi ils devraient libérer leurs esclaves.
En premier lieu, vous lirez des documents décrivant la vie en Nouvelle-France. En deuxième lieu, vous apprendrez à tirer des conclusions à partir des preuves que vous trouverez au sujet de la mentalité des gens de la Nouvelle-France qui s’opposaient à l’esclavage. En dernier lieu, vous écrirez un dialogue entre vous – l’intègre opposant – et votre famille, dans lequel vous expliquerez pourquoi vous vous opposez à l’esclavage.


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Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History highlight: "Torture and the Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montréal"

In the spring of 1734, a fire occurred in Montréal that destroyed a hospital and 45 houses on rue Saint-Paul. Criminal proceedings were soon underway against Marie-Josèphe dite Angélique, an enslaved Black woman, and her White lover, Claude Thibault. The latter fled, leaving Angélique on her own to prove her innocence.
Some twenty witnesses filed before the judge, all of them convinced that the slave of the widow Francheville was guilty, yet not one of them saw her set the fire.
Her story is a tragic one, yet Angélique inspired a movement to advance the cause of social justice in Québec and sparked the fight against all forms of discrimination. For we'll be highlighting her story.
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Inuit played a major, indispensable role in several of the most important search parties for the lost . Testimony by Inuit witnesses revealed brief encounters with European men who were probably members of Franklin`s expedition party or told of abandoned ships they had seen in the icy bays and channels of the Arctic archipelago. Explore the influence of the Inuit in the mystery of the Franklin Expedition on our Mystery Site "The Franklin Mystery: Life and Death in the Arctic" 🔎➡ https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/franklin

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The Franklin Mystery: Life and Death in the Arctic invites you to explore the historical evidence about the tragic events of the Franklin Expedition, and come to your own conclusions about what happened, and why. You will find here hundreds of pieces of evidence left over from the past and reproduced here in letters, diaries, memoirs, drawings, paintings and maps. There is new scientific evidence as well, ranging from data from underwater submarines to forensic evidence from the skeleton remains and the remarkable discovery of the remains of HMS Erebus in September 2014. You will also read Inuit oral history evidence from the nineteenth century. What role did their statements play in finding the remains of the Expedition? How did Inuit knowledge of the Arctic environment aid the searchers? Was it possible that they encountered Franklin’s men before their grim deaths?
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Ultimately, the disappearance of Franklin`s Arctic Expedition sparked one of the most extensive search efforts in world history. According to historian W. Gillies Ross, 32 expeditions were engaged in the search for Franklin between 1847 and 1859. Twenty of these were actual search parties, 11 were supply expeditions, and another was a relief expedition sent to search for the searchers. In the process, many more sailors were injured or died in their notable efforts to bring closure to the Franklin Mystery. Was it all a waste of effort and lives or was there a long term significance to this massive commitment? Look for evidence to answer this question in the Ripples and Ice Jams section.
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New year, old mystery...but, NEW discoveries! If you haven't been paying attention to Parks Canada ongoing exploration of the Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site, now is a great time to check it out!
Over the past decade, Parks Canada underwater archaeologists visited the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and Terror and recovered all kinds of artifacts. One of the most exciting artifacts is a folio - a leather book cover, beautifully embossed — with pages inside. Could this folio tell us about what happened to the ships and crew of Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition? We'll certainly be waiting to hear more!
Check out the Exploration Reports on the Parks Canada website to catch up on the latest news and see photos from the wreck sites.
Link: https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/culture/archeologie-archeology/explore
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Ongoing exploration Now that both shipwrecks have been found, Parks Canada and Inuit are working together to research, document and preserve them.