February 2023

Cedarhedge150

Canada’s Penitentiary Museum will be celebrating #Cedarhedge150 this summer. On August 28, 1873, Warden John Creighton and his family moved into Cedarhedge, the new official warden’s residence of Kingston Penitentiary, now the home of the Museum. Built entirely by prison labour of local limestone with accents of Ohio sandstone, Cedarhedge took its name from the extensive cedar […]

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Canada’s Penitentiary Museum Is Hiring! / Le Musée pénitentiaire du Canada embauche!

Canada’s Penitentiary Museum, located in the old Warden’s residence of Kingston Penitentiary, is looking for interested applicants for the summer season (May 1 to September 4). The Museum chronicles the history of the federal correctional system in Canada, with several floors devoted to different aspects of that long history, from escapes to contraband to inmate

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