Jan. 22 In 1690, the Iroquois signed a peace treaty with the British government and the Great Lakes tribes. In 2007, the multiple murder trial of Vancouver-area pig farmer Robert Pickton began in New Westminster, B.C. He was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of 26 women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. But he went on trial on just six of the charges after the case was split into two. After a 10-month trial, Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder on Dec. 9th. Two days later, he was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. In 2010, the other 20 first-degree murder charges were formally stayed after the Crown announced it would not pursue the rest of its case because Pickton…
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