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Was there a tenth victim at Frog Lake?(Cover Story)

Alberta History,  January, 2006  by Ronaghan, Allen

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Editor's Note: Conventional history states that nine persons were killed in the Frog Lake massacre of 1885. As evidence, historians point to declarations made by survivors, trial evidence, and other documents that describe those killed as Father Leon Fafard, Father Felix Marchand, Thomas Quinn, John Delaney, John Gowanlock, William Gilchrist, George Dill, Charles Gouin, and John Williscroft.

In this essay, Allen Ronaghan presents the argument that a tenth victim, a Mission teacher, also died that day but notice of it escaped the attention of contemporary officials, journalists and ...

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