4D. Unidentified / Unconfirmed homicides
This page lists homicides for which victims have not yet been identified and/or which have not yet been confirmed as job-related.
There may be as many as ten such homicides cited in various sources.
British Columbia
Occupational Mortality in British Columbia is an ongoing project which has gathered occupational data on deceased persons since 1950. See
Occupational Mortality in British Columbia 1950 to 1978,
1950 to 1984
and
1985 to 1994.
Although the deaths are classified by victim occupation, the deaths themselves may or may not be job-related.
The project has recorded four taxi driver homicides which have not yet been identified:
- 1 homicide during the period 1950 to 1959
- 2 homicides during the period 1960 to 1969
- 1 homicide during the period 1985 to 1994
Ontario
- According to a 1951 Maclean's Magazine article, three Toronto-area taxi drivers were murdered within a year, presumably not long prior to 1951. See
Confessions of a Big Town Cabbie.
Assuming that two of them were
Alfred Reddish
and
Ralph Margeson, one possible homicide victim remains unidentified. If the other two drivers were not Reddish or Margeson, we may have two or three
unidentified victims.
- An email inquiry from a family member identifies Elwin Arlington Foster as a Windsor taxi driver who died January 3, 1951. The cause of death is believed to be an attack in
which Foster was hit over the head, possibly during December, 1950. Research has so far not turned up any other information on this case.
Québec
- Journalist Marcel Laroche recalls three taxi driver homicides that occurred in Cowansville, Baie Comeau and Rimouski during the 1970s. Since then two of the three drivers
have been identified. See
Data Sources: Québec.
- Taxi driver André Lefebvre, 32, was one of four people shot to death in a Montréal hotel bar during a gangland shooting on February 13, 1975. We do not yet
know whether or not Lefebvre was on duty at the time.
- A web site for retired Sûreté du Québec officers identifies Émile Girouard as a taxi driver who was murdered in 1938. We are awaiting
confirmation and particulars on this case.
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