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This provinces second hanging was of Angus Mclvor, a 24-year-old Metis on this date, it was anything but “pleasant.”  
 
McIvor had killed a man named George Atkinson, and one other at Fort Ellice in the Northwest Territories in September 1875. Atkinson had hired McIvor and three other men to help deliver freight.  
 
McIvor wanted to steal the freight and shot two of the men in the head. The third man named Baptiste Charette, survived and turned McIvor in to the local police, and the Mounted Police escorted him to Winnipeg for trial, he was convicted and sentenced to hang on January 7th 1876.  
 
The previous “executioner” was not available and a new one was chosen from a number of applicants.  
 
Unfortunately he bungled the job: the Free Press newspaper reported that the victim’s neck was not broken by the fall, with the result that he died of slow strangulation.  
 
After the hanging his body was put to rest in an unmarked Grave in St. Boniface Basilica.  
 
Note: Fort Ellice was a Hudson’s Bay trading post located on Beaver Creek near the confluence of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers, just east of the present-day Manitoba-Saskatchewan border. Established in 1831 by C.T. William Todd, the fort was intended to protect claims to Hudson's Bay Company lands from venturing American interests, as well as to sell provisions such as pemmican, tools and traps to passing traders.  
 
Source: Winnipeg Police Service http://www.winnipeg.ca/police/History/story11.stm  
 
Hudson Bay Company Records  
 
http://members.shaw.ca/canada_legal_history/mb.htm  
 
Fort Ellice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ellice