Lorna was recently interviewed ahead of her presentation for the Kamloops Adult Learners Society on May 30. You can read the full interview in this pdf.

Lorna presented to the North Toronto Historical Society in April 2023 and her talk was summarized in their Summer newsletter. The article is excerpted here as a pdf .

In a 300-word early morning dispatch George Gregg, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Leader, described what happened next: “At half-past two o’clock this morning Hon. T. D. McGee was shot dead by an unknown assassin, just as he was entering the door of his lodging...

Funny, determined, and “schooled in the details of information of every class of crime,” John Wilson Murray in 1875 starting hunting lawbreakers as the provincial detective of Ontario On February 21, 1890, he received word that two woodsmen had made a grisly...

Lorna appeared on a true crime panel at FanExpo in Toronto in August.  TalkShoe.com and Dundurn Press recorded the session and have released it as a series of podcast episodes from Mean Streets of Toronto. You can hear Lorna's readings in Episodes 2 and 5. Check out...

In the late 1940s, they loitered on corners, haunted dance halls, stole cars — and made waves by battling a rival gang at Wasaga Beach Read the full story on the TVO website!