Christmas Blizzard Deaths In W. Canada
(Received 1.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, December 27. There were 17 deaths and 200 people were injured in a Christmas blizzard in West Canada, in traffic and holiday mishaps. . John Rushton, Alberta farmer, and a veteran of the Boer and Great Wars, was frozen to death while walking home from a neighbour’s party,; While both were in hospital at Toronto, after a quarrel, Mrs Fred Bailey killed her husband by a head blow wjth an acid bottle, stolen from a laboratory.
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Northern Advocate, 28 December 1937, Page 5
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