In 1973 a man robbed a bank in Kenora, Ontario using a homemade bomb, as he left a police sniper shot him… detonating the bomb. The man has never been identified and is typically referred to by locals as Oliver Town (as his remains were found all over town)
https://thecanadiangothic.com/episodes/kenora-bank-robbery
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He left his mark on that town for sure!
That name is hilarious though.
Kind of a DB Cooper story…….never found out who he was……I lived a few hours from Kenora and remember my parents talking about this when I was a kid.
A local brewery (there is only one there) made a NEIPA called ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ after this incident.
1973, no one knows who he was, and an actual functioning bomb. Sounds like a former FLQ member from Quebec.
Bounty pickup
This is Canada. We’ll blow you up and make jokes about it. Take note America.
The whole thing about using a bomb to rob a bank is there really isn’t a scenario where it working is going to help anything
This is the kind of history that needs to be taught
Here’s how it was reported at the time: https://www.winnipegsun.com/archives/this-day-in-history-kenora-bank-robber-disintegrates-in-a-dynamite-explosion/article_604abe38-ab35-56b2-955c-88390a37503f.html