At Any Price: The Story of the Megantic Outlaw
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At Any Price: The Story of the Megantic Outlaw
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| Abstract |
Believing that his father had been swindled out of the small Megantic family farm and unable to secure legal rights to rectify the wrong, Donald Morrison (1858-1894) took matters into his own hands. A few days after the new occupants refused to vacate the family property, someone fired shots into the cabin and set fire to the barn. A short time later, in a gunfight, Morrison killed the official who attempted to serve a warrant for arson and attempted murder. Although wanted for murder, thanks to safehouses and food supplied by sympathetic Scottish-Canadian neighbours and family, Morrison evaded capture for ten months. Eventually apprehended in 1889, convicted and sentenced to eighteen years hard labour, Morrison went on a hunger strike and died in 1894.
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The Beaver
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Vol. 83
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no. 5
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36-40
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October/November 2003
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en
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| Citation |
Stanford, Richard. “At Any Price: The Story of the Megantic Outlaw.” The Beaver Vol. 83, no. 5 (November 2003): 36–40.
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