Hugh Richardson (magistrate)

Hugh Richardson (21 July 1826 – 15 July 1913) was a stipendiary magistrate for the Saskatchewan district of the North-West Territories. Richardson was the man who, at the conclusion of the 1885 trial of Louis Riel, sentenced Riel to hang, and who at the 1885 trial of Big Bear sentenced Big Bear to three years in prison. He died in Ottawa in 1913 and is interred in the cemetery of the St. Thomas Anglican ("Old English") Church, in St. Thomas, Ontario.

Hugh Richardson (magistrate)

Hugh Richardson (21 July 1826 – 15 July 1913) was a stipendiary magistrate for the Saskatchewan district of the North-West Territories. Richardson was the man who, at the conclusion of the 1885 trial of Louis Riel, sentenced Riel to hang, and who at the 1885 trial of Big Bear sentenced Big Bear to three years in prison. He died in Ottawa in 1913 and is interred in the cemetery of the St. Thomas Anglican ("Old English") Church, in St. Thomas, Ontario.