The last Canadian to go to jail simply for being gay.

On the morning of Aug.16, 1965, in Pine Point, N.W.T., the RCMP began looking into a suspicious fire.

By lunch, they had a suspect — Everett Klippert, a 39-year-old mechanic’s helper who moved to town a year before.

That afternoon, officers brought Klippert…

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