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5D. Data Sources: Ontario
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Homicide in the Workplace in Ontario Gary M. Liss and Catherine A. Craig, "Homicide in the Workplace in Ontario: Occupations at Risk and Limitations of Existing Data Sources," Canadian Journal of Public Health, January/February, 1990, pp. 10-15. This study used files from the Ontario Coroner's office and the Ontario Mortality Database to determine work-related homicides for the period 1975-85. The study reported five taxi driver homicides. However, the Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides list now contains ten Ontario homicides from 1975-85:
One of the purposes of the Liss and Craig study was to illustrate the limitations of data sources. The authors were aware that they might have missed some cases given the fact that Ontario workplace homicides were not identified directly in their sources. Workplace homicides had to be inferred from the location of death, which was not always recorded consistently. Confessions of a Big Town Cabbie John Rowland, "Confessions of a Big-Town Cabbie," Macleans Magazine, Oct. 1, 1951, pp. 26, 51. Apropos of the dangers of night shift driving, John Rowland wrote that in the Toronto area alone three drivers had been killed in less than a year. There are no specifics about the homicides or even the year in which they occurred, but presumably the incidents were relatively recent in 1951 when the article was published. Alfred Reddish (November 30, 1946) and Ralph Margeson (November 11, 1947) were both killed within a year of each other, but a Toronto Globe & Mail article on the Margeson murder refers to him as the second driver to be killed within a year. This raises at least four possibilities:
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