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Dent's 1932 investigation into the murder of 27 year-old farmhand Leo Bergeron led to the arrest and murder conviction of Cumberland farmers Emmanuel Lavictoire and William J. Larocque.On March 15, 1933 these men were the last to hang at the L'Orignal Jail. Dent's role in this incident is described in the book by Charles W. Bell, K.C. " Who Said Murder?"
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Strikers from unemployment relief camps en route to eastern Canada during the 'On to Ottawa Trek'June, 1935
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During the Depression in 1935, Dent was one of 11 OPP officers to escort 400 marchers in the ‘Great Trek' from Toronto to Ottawa in their protest against unemployment.Michael Barnes, in his book "Dedication to Duty: OPP Officers Who Have Died Serving Ontario," pays tribute to Harold Dent.
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Joyce Evens1939
Port Arthur, Ontario
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Dent was one of the OPP officers who traveled on the Royal Train from the Quebec / Ontario border to Ottawa during the 1939 Royal Visit by King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth.19
'In Loving Memory'2004
Clarence Point, Ontario
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Hal Dent's funeral procession was one of the longest in local memory. The community solemnly proceeded to the Clarence Cemetery, on the south shore of the Ottawa River where Dent's body was laid to rest on June 23, 1940 alongside family members.Today, from his grave site you can see Thurso, Quebec, the small lumber town that had been home to the pioneer Dent family.
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John Miki (actor)2004
Navan, Ontario
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The murdererLittle is known about John Miki (a.k.a. Maki). He was a Finnish transient who spoke English with a heavy ‘foreign' accent. The day he met Norman Edwards in Cumberland he claimed that he was a seaman who had disembarked at Montreal on the St. Lawrence River.
Born in 1898, he was 42 years of age at the time of his death. Miki had a large frame and a mass of dark blonde hair which hung down over his forehead. Over six feet with an athletic build, Miki was a small-time ‘thug' and a thief who was trying to evade capture for armed robberies that he had recently committed in Gatineau, Quebec. Miki had a criminal record for gambling after being arrested in a Montreal gaming house in 1934. He was ordered to pay costs and to spend the night in jail.
Miki's fingerprints, on file at the RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa, helped to identify his body.
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Miki's unmarked grave in Dale's Cemetery.2004
Cumberland, Ontario
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Following his death, no family members or friends came forth to claim his body from Brunet Funeral Home in Rockland, Ontario.He was buried at the Township's expense in an unmarked grave at the south-east corner of Dale's Cemetery in Cumberland Village.
Cumberland residents Bill McGuire and young Wilfred Sharkey, and the United Church Minister, Rev. George D. Campbell, were the only mourners at the grave site that day.
At the time there was much controversy amongst the townspeople over Miki's burial in this pioneer cemetery.
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OPP Sergeant Allan StringerJune, 1940
Navan, Ontario
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The marksmanOntario Provincial Police Acting Sergeant Allan Stringer (1901 – 1967) of the Timmins, Ontario detachment, had arrived in Navan on Wednesday, June 19, 1940 with his wife Joanne (Biddy) Findlay. They were in town to visit Biddy's family. Her sisters, Gertrude (Gertie) and Marjorie (Marj) operated the telephone exchange out of the family home in the centre of Navan.
Stringer was a well-known marksman. On one occasion, in front of a small audience, he asked his wife to hold up a flower (a ‘buttercup') and then promptly shot the top of the flower off!
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The Kings Police and Fire Service Medal1940
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