Clara at the Door With a Revolver

Clara at the Door with a Revolver

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Ashley Raskovsky
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Natasa Ilic
, Juliea Deleeuw
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Andrea Gillespie
, Faye Lilley
, Jude Castillo
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Sandra Perry
, Heather Babcock
, Maxine Palomino
, Freda Mans-Labianca
, Allison Dube
, Shawna Moodie
, Jocelyn Heisel
, John McGlashan
, Lila Armstrong
, Grace Novack
, Andrea Pole
, Sonja Boon
, Sandra Furlotte
, Susan Hroncek
, Linda Leitch
, Leyi Luo
, Kate Rutter
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sarah Schwartz
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Mary Therrien
, Dawn Macdonald
, Jennifer Beyak
, Dani Kat
, Hayley Chandler
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Trish Bowering
, Kim Cappellina
, Hoda Montazeri
, Peggy Domenie
, Marjorie Roy
, Rose Hately
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Joshua Lewis
, Deb Philippon
, joy mills
, Christine Lion
, C. Ray
, Margaret McKay
, Charles Leblanc
, Alex Henderson
, Heather Belliveau
, Mary Campbell
, Tiffany C
, Margaret Palmer
, Prabh Toor
, Ellen Clarke
, Susan Fitzgerald
, BJ Underwood
, Janice Cournoyer
, Paula Adam
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Huguette Lemieux
, Adrienne Stevenson
, Gail Reid
, Melissa Kohlman
, Denise Duvall
, LJ Law
, Randi Ann Doll
, Debbie Youngman
, Gina Bergman
, Esther VanGorder
, Sandra McGugan
, Cathy L Brown
, diana kirkwood
, Patricia Johnson
, Shamarra Gray
, Susan Terendy
, Val Ross
, Karen Kendrick
, Patricia McKeown
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Christa Seeley
, Paris Semansky

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06/02/2023

19/02/2023

Yes

Shamarra Gray
, Charles Leblanc
, Sandra Perry

On the night of October 6, 1894, Frank Westwood was shot to death by an unknown assailant as he stood in the doorway of his home. Six weeks later, Clara Ford – a Black tailor and single mother known for wearing men’s attire – was arrested and confessed to the murder. But as the details of her arrest and her history with Westwood emerged, Clara recanted, testifying that she was coerced by police into a false confession. Carolyn Whitzman tells the story of a courageous Black woman in nineteenth-century Toronto and paints a portrait of a city and a society that have not changed enough in 125 years.