Hugh Richardson (magistrate)
Lieutenant-Colonel
Hugh RichardsonHugh Richardson (21 July 1826 – 15 July 1913) was a stipendiary
North-West Territories of Canada. 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.
Richardson was born in
Donald Alexander Macdonald
, was living there.
He died in Ottawa in 1913 and is interred in the cemetery of the St. Thomas Anglican ("Old English") Church, in St. Thomas, Ontario.
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