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Bad Luck Bank Robbers
''Bad Luck Bank Robbers'' is a 2006 book by Canadian historian Grace Barker about the Havelock Bank Robbery. The book documents the robbery, the police chase, the escape, the search and capture of the five robbers, and their trail. It inspired a 2016 play by the same name. Author Grace Barker is a Canadian author based in Campbellford, Ontario. She was supported by former police officer Clive Naismith of Trent Valley Archives during the research of the book. Barker previously wrote ''Timber Empire: The Exploits of the Entrepreneurial Boyds,'' a historical account of lumber baron Mossom Boyd and his family. Synopsis The book documents the Havelock Bank Robbery of the Toronto Dominion Bank in 1961 and the police chase of the robbers. The book describes the two years of planning that went into the robbery, learning the patterns of the staff and the timing of the managers vacation. It details the limited capacity of the local police force. It also talks about the errors made by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havelock Bank Robbery
The Havelock Bank Robbery was a 1961 armed robbery of bank bonds plus $230,000 cash from the Toronto-Dominion Bank branch in Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, Havelock, Ontario. The five robbers were arrested; one died in custody and the other four were found guilty. The money was never found. Background 31 August 1961 was the pay day of three local mining companies, and therefore a day in which the Havelock branch of Toronto-Dominion Bank would have more money than usual. Robbery During the early morning of 31 August, four men entered the basement window of the Toronto-Dominion Bank in the small town of Havelock, Ontario, while another waited in the Crime scene getaway, get-away car. The assailants waited for staff to arrive, and once they did at 9:15am, the armed robbers politely demanded bank worker William Lindup to open the safe and put the contents into a duffel bag, fleeing minutes later with $230,000 of cash plus bank bonds. The five robbers were armed with revolvers and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbellford
Campbellford is an unincorporated place and former town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, in the township municipality of Trent Hills. It lies approximately midway between Toronto and Ottawa. It is situated on both the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Trans Canada Trail. It can be reached from Highway 401 by exiting at Brighton (exit 509) and going north on County Road 30. It can also be reached from Highway 7 at the Havelock exit going south (also on County Road 30). Campbellford is surrounded by prime agricultural land which is home to many farms. In recent years, some of the town's agricultural sector has diversified into non-traditional areas such as bison farming, rare breeds farming and there are many horse farms in the area. The town has a farmers market that is open two days a week in the summer. History Campbellford traces its history back to 1834, when the first homesteaders arrived in the area. Once very wealthy, it is still known today for its many fine Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mossom Boyd
Mossom Boyd (7 December 1814 – 24 July 1883) was an Anglo-Irish entrepreneur who developed and operated a large lumber business on the Trent river system in Ontario, Canada.Curtis, C"Mossom Boyd" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' (2008). Biography Early life Mossom Boyd was born in India to Captain Gardiner Boyd, ‘a North of Ireland officer of the Bengal Army,’ and his wife Arabella Chadwick.Wurtele, J. ‘Mossom Boyd: Lumber King of the Trent Valley.’ Ontario Historical Society L:4 (1958.) p. 177. Both of his parents died in 1829 during the cholera epidemic, after which, Mossom Boyd and his sister Anne were sent to live with guardians in London.Barker, G. Timber Empire. (Huntsville: Fox Meadow Creations. 1997) p. 14. Because their behaviour was considered ‘difficult’, they were promptly relocated to Ireland's Derry district to live with an aunt. Boyd expected to be called upon to serve in the British Army, but after the Napoleonic Wars fewer men were recruited. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank (french: links=no, Banque Toronto-Dominion), doing business as TD Bank Group (french: links=no, Groupe Banque TD), is a Canadian Multinational corporation, multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank and its subsidiaries are commonly known as simply TD and trading under the name ''Toronto-Dominion Bank.'' The bank was created on February 1, 1955, through the merger of the Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank, which were founded in 1855 and 1869; respectively. It is one of two Big Five (banks), Big Five banks of Canada founded in Toronto, the other being the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The TD Bank Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT code is TDOMCATTTOR and the TD institution number is 004. In 2021, according to Standard & Poor's, TD Bank Group was the largest bank in Canada by total assets and also by market capitalization, a top-10 bank in North America, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Line Theatre
The 4th Line Theatre is a Canadian theatre company located near the small town of Millbrook, Ontario in the township of Cavan Monaghan that is dedicated to producing and developing original Canadian theatre, from small-town stories to broad national sagas – written by and about Canadians. History Founded by Robert Winslow in 1992, after his mother's passing left him with the 150-acre farm property that has been in his family for 150 years, Rob launched theatre with the classic The Cavan Blazers. Based on the story of the 19th-century Orangemen in Millbrook who violently tried to drive out Catholics who attempted to settle in the area. Winslow has directed and written many of the plays. Some of the more recent productions have been directed by Kim Blackwell. For the theatre's 25th season in 2016, an art show celebrating past productions was held in Millbrook. One of the 2016 productions featured was ''The Hero of Hunter Street'', a play about a tragic industrial accident in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Non-fiction Books
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Books
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), ''The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is defined by the criminal law of eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Robberies
Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence. This refers to robbery of a bank branch or teller, as opposed to other bank-owned property, such as a train, armored car, or (historically) stagecoach. It is a federal crime in the United States. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, robbery is "the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence or by putting the victim in fear." By contrast, burglary is "unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft." Overview Places Bank robbery occurs in cities and towns. This concentration is often attributed to there being more branches in urban areas, but the number of bank robberies is higher than the number of branches. This has advantages both for bank robbers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
