Redpath’s crusade took a remarkable turn on the day he met John Brown. The murder of five proslavery men along Pottawatomie Creek had electrified the territories. John Brown stood accused of ...

In the early 1830s, two ambitious minds, Thomas McKay and John Redpath, yes - the same Redpath as Redpath Sugar, Canada's oldest food company founded in 1854, took on the challenge of taming the ...