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Correctional Service of Canada fonds [multiple media] (R942-0-X-E)

Accession

1. Correspondence [textual records]
2. CORRECTIONAL SERVICE CANADA [textual records]
3. Operational records of Correctional Service Canada [textual record, graphic material]
4. Correctional Service Canada, Kingston Penitentiary [textual records]
5. Correctional Service Canada, Kingston Penitentiary, Registers [textual records]
6. Correctional Service Canada, Kingston Penitentiary, Registers [textual records]
7. Correctional Service Canada, Kingston Penitentiary [textual records] (123-000339-8)
8. Penitentiary Branch, Kingston Penitentiary, Administrative Files [textual records] (1996-04058-8)
9. Correctional Service of Canada, Penitentiary Branch, Kingston Penitentiary, Operational Records [textual records] (1997-01269-3)
10. Correspondence and registers of the Kingston Penitentiary, Penitentiary Branch [textual record] (1998-00682-4)

Date(s)

1834-1994

Place of creation

Canada

Extent

16.6 m of textual records
75 photographs: b&w

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Series consists of records created and accumulated at the Kingston Penitentiary. These records include; inmate history description ledgers (1886-1954); inmate personal effects ledgers; the Warden's letter books and daily journals; Inspector's minute books and letter book; liberation books; punishment books; duty rosters; daily reports of Keepers and Guards; and various medical registers. Graphic material records photographic evidence from the inquiry into the April 19, 1971 prison riot. Photographs include images of the riot site and its aftermath.

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Terms of use

Copyright belongs to the Crown.

Finding aid

Textual records Finding aid (formerly 73-28) is a handwritten-typed file list relating to volumes 323-458. 73-7 90 (Paper)

Textual records The finding aid (formerly 73-28) relates to volumes 558-630. The list includes volume number, title and outside dates. 73-7 90 (Electronic)

Graphic Material The photographic finding aid is a box list with file numbers and caption information supplied by originator. Information added to media note field within this record. Correctional Services Canada R 942 90 (Electronic)

Creator / Provenance

Kingston Penitentiary.
Provincial Penitentiary (Kingston, Ont.)

Biography / Administrative history

Kingston Penitentiary, Canada's oldest penitentiary, opened in Portsmouth (now part of Kingston), Upper Canada, on 1 June 1835 as the Provincial Penitentiary for Upper Canada. This institution was designed for the incarceration of prisoners of both Upper Canada (Canada West) and Lower Canada (Canada East) by the Act of Union of 1840. In 1867, the government of Canada became responsible for the maintenance and management of the Provincial Penitentiary at Kingston by virtue of Section 91 of the BNA. The penitentiary was authorized to receive offenders sentenced to terms of more than two years from Ontario and Quebec and came under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.

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Source

Government

Related control no.

1. 86/001
2. 1980-81/253 GAD
3. 1983-84/030 GAD
4. 1985-86/163 GAD
5. 1986-87/094 GAD
6. 1987-88/013 GAD
7. 1987-88/014 GAD
8. 1995-96/339 GAD
9. 1996-97/1059 GAD
10. 1997-98/270 GAD
11. 123-000339-8
12. 1996-04058-8
13. 1997-01269-3
14. 1998-00682-4
15. RG73
16. RG73-C
17. RG73-C-1
18. RG73-C-6

MIKAN no.

134807