[IPSM] OPP Timeline

[Mike D]

Ontario Provincial Police Timeline


Mar. 22, 2005
OPP withdraws from Race Relations Awards Ceremony after learning that reporters Peter Edwards and Harold Levy are to be honoured.  Edwards and Levy were honoured for outstanding reporting on issues faced by First Nations people and particularly in the wake of the OPP shooting death of Dudley George and Public Inquiry on Ipperwash.



March 12, 2004

OPP Elite Unit disbanded after allegations officers had defaced a Mohawk Unity flag and a poster of an OKA protester from 1990 found in a home on the Chippewa of the Thames reserve.  Eight members of the OPP's Central Tactics and Rescue Unit, a paramilitary outfit based in Barrie, were charged with discreditable conduct and deceit.



Nov. 11, 2001
Elderly Nawash woman dies after OPP fail to initiate any meaningful search.

On the night of Nov 11/01, Lucy Pedoniquott wandered out of the Wiarton Hospital where she was a patient wearing only bedclothes and paper slippers.  The Wiarton OPP searched only the grounds of the hospital before calling off their search.  When family initiated a search of their own, they approached the OPP for assistance.  They were refused even requests for flashlights.

At 4PM on November 12th, the OPP's Emergency Response Team found Lucy, deceased, in the swamp directly across from the Wiarton Hospital.



July 5, 2001

60 OPP officers under investigation for circulation of racist emails, including autopsy photos of an Indian woman with the accompanying caption: "Steak knives are good for more than just steak."



September 6, 1995
OPP shooting death of Stoney Point member, Dudley George.  OPP also shot a 16-year-old boy in the back that evening and beat a Kettle Point band councillor unconscious.  Shortly after Dudley's death family members found OPP commemorative mugs & t-shirts reading "Team Ipperwash '95" with an OPP crest with an arrow through it and others with a feather lying horizontal under the OPP crest appearing in some stores in the neighbouring town.