Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides, 1917-2007 5B. Data Sources: Alberta

Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides, 1917-2007 5B. Data Sources: Alberta

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5B. Data Sources: Alberta

Taxi Driver Safety in Alberta (1985)

Keith Smith, Chairman, Working Group on Taxi Driver Safety. Taxi Driver Safety in Alberta, the Report and Recommendations of an Interdepartmental Committee of the Alberta Government. Edmonton: Research and Education Branch, Occupational Health and Safety Division, Alberta Dept. of Workers' Health, Safety and Compensation, February, 1985.

This study was carried out in response to a series of three taxi driver murders in 1984. Among other statistics, the study reported that a total of nine Alberta taxi drivers were slain between 1975 and 1984, four in Edmonton, four in Calgary and one elsewhere (presumably Medicine Hat). All of them now seem to be accounted for in the Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides list:

Jim Morris was killed in Edmonton shortly after the study was published in 1985.

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