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ARCHIVAL REPOSITORIES AND COLLECTIONS
Library and Archives Canada
RG10: Indian Affairs
RG13: Department of Justice
RG73: Penitentiaries
Glenbow Museum
Edgar Dewdney Papers
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
- Appendix to the Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, various years
- Appendix to the First Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada (1841)
- Appendix to the Second Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1842)
- Appendix to the Eleventh Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1852)
- Appendix to the Twelfth Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1853)
- Appendix to the Thirteenth Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1855)
- Appendix to the Fifteenth Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1857)
- Appendix to the Sixteenth Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1858)
- Appendix to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (1859)
- House of Commons Debates, various years
- Journal of the House Assembly of Lower-Canada from the 28th March to the 3rd June, 1799
- Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, various years
- Sessional Papers, various years
LEGISLATION
- An Act for Building a Gaol and Court House in Every District Within This Province, and for Altering the Names of Said Districts, Statutes of the Province of Upper Canada, 1792, c. 8
- Act to Declare the Common Gaols to Be Houses of Correction for Certain Purposes, Statutes of the Province of Upper Canada, 1810, c. 5
- Act for the Better Management of the Provincial Penitentiary, Provincial Statutes of Canada, 1851, 14 and 15 Vict, c. 2
- Criminal Code of Canada, 1892, c. 29
- Penitentiary Act, 1868, 31 Vict.
- “Penitentiary Regulations, January 1889,” The Consolidated Orders in Council of Canada, c. 60
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