Lord Gordon Gordon
Sources
A selection of articles from the Manitoba Free Press, the Manitoba Gazette, the Manitoba Herald, and the New York Times were used for this episode.
Bruce Cherney, The Lord of the Con Winnipeg Real Estate News. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Dale Brawn, The Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba: 1870-1950: A Biographical History (2006)
Edith Paterson, Lord Gordon Gordon. Unpublished manuscript held at Province of Manitoba Archives.
J.L. Johnston, ‘Lord Gordon Gordon’ MHS Transactions (Series 3, 1950-51).
Lord Gordon Gordon, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Victor Davies | The Canadian Encyclopedia. Davies is a composer who wrote an opera based on Gordon’s life.
Synopsis of ‘Lord Gordon Gordon’, a musical performed by Minnesota’s History Theatre.
Lord Gordon Gordon in Comedy Central’s Drunk History.
James McKay, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Francis E Cornish, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
John Christian Schultz, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
On the evening of July 2nd, 1873, a visiting Scottish lord, Lord Gordon Gordon, was kidnapped from James McKay’s Silver Heights home and rushed towards the American border. The events that followed would spiral into a full-scale international incident involving both the Canadian and American governments and the discovery that Lord Gordon Gordon was not who he seemed.
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