Join the museum for our speaker series that is bringing history to our schedule of events in Lacombe! Members of the Lacombe and District Historical Society will have the ability to request access to recordings of each speaker in this series. To learn more about membership click here.
**Please register for the event via the Zoom**
Abstract:
Prohibition. Bootlegging. Rum running. The death of an APP Constable.
Southern Alberta, particularly the Crowsnest Pass, is an exciting part of prohibition era history in Alberta. Join Keith Regular for the November edition of our virtual speaker series to learn more about potential police corruption, feminism, and the history of capital punishment as related to prohibition in Alberta. This talk will focus on the shooting death of APP Constable Stephen Lawson in Blairmore in 1922. This high-profile bootlegging crime features an interesting cast of participants including Emilio Picariello and his accomplice, Florence Lassandro. The lore and mysteries of this case have inspired an opera and multiple books. This exciting era of Alberta’s history is sure to intrigue participants.
Bio:
Keith Regular is a historian specializing in Southern Alberta history. Though his focus throughout his scholarly work has been on Indigenous history and relationships with settlers in the Southern part of the province, Keith has a special interest in the Constable Stephen Lawson case. For over a decade Keith has studied this case and the insights that this era in our history can give us into Canada and Alberta’s legal system.
