Elizabeth Lessard

Elizabeth Lessard (-1911), also known as Lizzie Lessard, was a Canadian petty criminal.

Life

Elizabeth Lessard was born in Quebec around 1877 and moved to Hamilton, Ontario with her family. Together with her sister Mary she became a petty criminal in her teens; they were both convicted of vagrancy in 1893 and sent to the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women. After her release in 1895, she was convicted of offenses such as prostitution, theft and vagrancy seventeen more times and often returned to the reformatory, where she was regularly reported for infractions.