It's time to honour and compensate Billy Beardy, a true Canadian Hero
It's time to honour and compensate Billy Beardy, a true Canadian Hero
The Issue
Billy Beardy is a NATIONAL HERO. Let's honour him, two years late!
Please support Billy Beardy's nomination to The Order of Canada for Bravery and please donate to help compensate Billy and his family for their time, their skills, their knowledge and their dedication to help the RCMP locate two dangerous assassins in 2019. As well, they deserve financial compensation for the distress, the terror, pain, anxiety and sleeplessness caused by the lack of protection for their family and the community of Bird where two murderers were on the loose.
LAST but not least... Billy was never offered a bulletproof vest by the RCMP. So let's right a wrong and belatedly get Billy his own bulletproof vest.
The Fox Lake Cree Nation acknowledged and honoured Billy Beardy. The rest of Canada did not and it's now two years later...
The time is NOW.
It was all over the news. You undoubtedly remember the Manitoba manhunt in summer 2019, two years ago, for the two murderous teens that were eventually found dead on August 7, 2019 in Northern Manitoba? There are many documentaries and videos on this case, the suspenseful 23-minute Globe and Mail doc above "Manhunt: Manitoba" is a must-watch, it will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Many You Tube true crime channel creators have made videos about this case, like Coffee House Crime whose excellent video was uploaded May 2021, "The Road to Death", in which he details Billy Beardy's selfless role in the manhunt. This is an absolute must watch:
But... who exactly found them?
It was Fox Lake Cree Nation's Billy Beardy, master hunter, fisher, trapper, whose sharp eye and bush knowledge alerted RCMP officers to the site where Western Canada manhunt suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky killed themselves on the shore of the Nelson River in August 2019.
Beardy, who spotted a raven in a riverside ravine as he was piloting RCMP officers upstream in a jet boat, was presented with a star blanket and an eagle feather in recognition of his contributions to providing a definitive answer about what happened to the two British Columbia. fugitives, who killed three people in northern B.C. before fleeing east, ultimately ending up the end of Highway 280 near Fox Lake Cree Nation. Billy Beardy was honoured by the Keewatin Tribal Council (KTC) during their 41st semi-annual general assembly in Thompson Aug. 11, 2019.
A lifelong resident of the community, Beardy was elected chief of Fox Lake Cree Nation in October 2019. “I know it’s been one year but I remember it like yesterday,” Beardy told his fellow chiefs after receiving the star blanket from War Lake First Nation Chief Betsy Kennedy and Tataskweyak Cree Nation Chief Doreen Spence and the eagle feather from KTC chairperson Barren Lands First Nation Chief John Clarke. “The raven jumped up but I seen the pant leg of the one individual where the raven jumped up so if I didn’t see the raven jump up I wouldn’t have seen the pant leg.”
Clarke said presenting Beardy with the eagle feather was a great honour for him.
“A lot of us believe without your heroic efforts and the way you know the land this manhunt would have been still a mystery," Clarke said. "They were about to give up and you did your share there without a bulletproof vest and you made it happen. It was a scary situation back then ... not only for the surrounding communities in your area but all of us in the north because we didn’t know what these guys were capable of and you brought an end to it ."
The search for McLeod and Schmeglesky in the Fox Lake Cree Nation area began and finished with Beardy, who was out picking berries with his wife Tamara when they found the burning vehicle that the suspects had last been known to be driving. He was instrumental in helping RCMP search the riverbanks after volunteering to pilot a Manitoba Conservation Jet boat up and down the treacherous and fast-moving Nelson River.
“I would probably do it again, this time with a bulletproof vest,” Beardy said in the Globe & Mail documentary, (link above) in which he noted that he was the only person on the boat without that added layer of protection.
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A heartfelt Thank you for your support. Please direct any questions, comments, suggestions by email to Heidi at
sixdarkzero@gmail.com
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The Issue
Billy Beardy is a NATIONAL HERO. Let's honour him, two years late!
Please support Billy Beardy's nomination to The Order of Canada for Bravery and please donate to help compensate Billy and his family for their time, their skills, their knowledge and their dedication to help the RCMP locate two dangerous assassins in 2019. As well, they deserve financial compensation for the distress, the terror, pain, anxiety and sleeplessness caused by the lack of protection for their family and the community of Bird where two murderers were on the loose.
LAST but not least... Billy was never offered a bulletproof vest by the RCMP. So let's right a wrong and belatedly get Billy his own bulletproof vest.
The Fox Lake Cree Nation acknowledged and honoured Billy Beardy. The rest of Canada did not and it's now two years later...
The time is NOW.
It was all over the news. You undoubtedly remember the Manitoba manhunt in summer 2019, two years ago, for the two murderous teens that were eventually found dead on August 7, 2019 in Northern Manitoba? There are many documentaries and videos on this case, the suspenseful 23-minute Globe and Mail doc above "Manhunt: Manitoba" is a must-watch, it will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Many You Tube true crime channel creators have made videos about this case, like Coffee House Crime whose excellent video was uploaded May 2021, "The Road to Death", in which he details Billy Beardy's selfless role in the manhunt. This is an absolute must watch:
But... who exactly found them?
It was Fox Lake Cree Nation's Billy Beardy, master hunter, fisher, trapper, whose sharp eye and bush knowledge alerted RCMP officers to the site where Western Canada manhunt suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky killed themselves on the shore of the Nelson River in August 2019.
Beardy, who spotted a raven in a riverside ravine as he was piloting RCMP officers upstream in a jet boat, was presented with a star blanket and an eagle feather in recognition of his contributions to providing a definitive answer about what happened to the two British Columbia. fugitives, who killed three people in northern B.C. before fleeing east, ultimately ending up the end of Highway 280 near Fox Lake Cree Nation. Billy Beardy was honoured by the Keewatin Tribal Council (KTC) during their 41st semi-annual general assembly in Thompson Aug. 11, 2019.
A lifelong resident of the community, Beardy was elected chief of Fox Lake Cree Nation in October 2019. “I know it’s been one year but I remember it like yesterday,” Beardy told his fellow chiefs after receiving the star blanket from War Lake First Nation Chief Betsy Kennedy and Tataskweyak Cree Nation Chief Doreen Spence and the eagle feather from KTC chairperson Barren Lands First Nation Chief John Clarke. “The raven jumped up but I seen the pant leg of the one individual where the raven jumped up so if I didn’t see the raven jump up I wouldn’t have seen the pant leg.”
Clarke said presenting Beardy with the eagle feather was a great honour for him.
“A lot of us believe without your heroic efforts and the way you know the land this manhunt would have been still a mystery," Clarke said. "They were about to give up and you did your share there without a bulletproof vest and you made it happen. It was a scary situation back then ... not only for the surrounding communities in your area but all of us in the north because we didn’t know what these guys were capable of and you brought an end to it ."
The search for McLeod and Schmeglesky in the Fox Lake Cree Nation area began and finished with Beardy, who was out picking berries with his wife Tamara when they found the burning vehicle that the suspects had last been known to be driving. He was instrumental in helping RCMP search the riverbanks after volunteering to pilot a Manitoba Conservation Jet boat up and down the treacherous and fast-moving Nelson River.
“I would probably do it again, this time with a bulletproof vest,” Beardy said in the Globe & Mail documentary, (link above) in which he noted that he was the only person on the boat without that added layer of protection.
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A heartfelt Thank you for your support. Please direct any questions, comments, suggestions by email to Heidi at
sixdarkzero@gmail.com
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Petition created on July 25, 2021