With medieval streets, seaside beaches, and a network of hiking trails, Carlingford is a popular tourist destination that also showcases the legacy of one of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation.
Article content This one-page “supplement” was included with the Ottawa Citizen of Feb. 12. 1869, the day after Patrick James Whelan was hanged for the murder of Thomas D’Arcy McGee. Photo by Digital download /Postmedia via newspapers.com
And while historians have debated Whelan’s role in McGee’s murder, the
Citizen at the time indicated little doubt, noting that “to all of them he expressed great regret for the part he had taken in the foul crime,” while telling another that he was satisfied “with the justice of his sentence.” Speaking with the jail’s governor, Mr. Powell, the
Citizen reported, Whelan “expressed wonder at his own folly in having been made such an easy dupe by designing men, and said he saw the mistake he had made in acting as he had done.”