Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Marcus Gee
Publication Date: September 26, 2025 - 05:30
I thought I knew the bloody saga of Frog Lake. Then I learned another side of the story
September 26, 2025
One bright morning in April, I embarked on a long day’s drive through the tawny fields of Western Canada, heading for a place I have been wondering about for most of my life.
Steering north and east from Calgary, I passed tall grain silos, swaybacked old sheds and thawing ponds full of migrating ducks. After more than six hours, I reached my destination: a small, fenced patch of mown grass where two dusty country roads meet. In it stood a fieldstone cairn and two short lines of rusting metal crosses. On each of them was a name and the word “massacred.”
Unpublished Newswire
Calvin Bird arrived in Edmonton on a crisp Monday morning to see Bryan Farrell, the man accused of killing his 14-year-old grandson, Samuel Bird.Samuel had been missing since June 1. Last Wednesday, Mr. Farrell, 38, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of the Indigenous teen. Samuel’s body was found in a forested rural area west of Edmonton the next day.
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