Ontario
Convict Deaths in the Kingston Penitentiary
1835 – 1915
Correctional Service of Canada Museum
Kingston Ontario
Peterborough Jail Registers
1876-1896
Cobourg Gaol Inmates
Index of prisoners 1832 – 1848
Windsor Jail
Historic Sandwich Town
Upper Canada (Ontario) Criminal Database
Kingston Ontario Penetentiary Inmates 1913-1916
Kingston Penitentiary inmate history ledger 1880-1959
The Bigamist in My Family Tree
Olive May Peer, born November 1898 in Port Credit Ontario, share a common Peer ancestor. Her 3rd great-grandfather Jacob Peer, who is written about in the book “The Peer Family of North America” is my 5th. great-grandfather. My great- grandmother, also named Olive Peer, was Olive May’s cousin.
In February 1927 Olive May married Robert Jackson. She could not have known that her husband was using an alias, that his real name was Robert Rodgers, and that her husband would be charged with two counts of bigamy and sentenced to time in jail.
Continue reading at The Bigamist in My Family Tree
List of Prisoners in York (Toronto) Jail 1814
Wellington Co. Ontario Canada Criminal Assize Clerk criminal indictment files 1853-1929
Names of Those Convicted of High Treason During War of 1812
To find the pictures of some of the inmates who were incarcerated at the Kingston Penitentiary, search for a person’s name in the Library and Archives Canada Archives Search menu
1. On the left of the screen, under Archives Search, click on the Advanced option. The advanced search screen will appear.Type the word Kingston in the first search box, leaving the default “Any Keyword” in the drop-down menu. In the second search box, type the surname of the inmate, leaving the default “Any Keyword” in the drop-down menu.
2. From the Type of material drop-down menu, select Photographic material.
3. From the Online drop-down menu, click on Yes, then click on Submit. Your search will generate a list of results. Select an underlined title to access the full description of the photograph. The descriptive records display images of photographs that have been digitized.
Bigamy & Jail: Rachel Eves & Her Four Husbands
A wedding is supposed to be a joyous occasion. But for Rachel Eves Fardy her many marriages led to trouble. On 19 August 1899 a lurid headline hit The Globe newspaper: HAMILTON: Mrs. Rachel Faraday Pleads Guilty of Bigamy
“Bigamy & Jail” by Lorine McGinnis Schulze is Rachel’s story – the story of a young woman enduring endless hardships yet finding the strength to go on, all the while doing the best she can to protect her children. Available on Amazon
William Massey Goes to Jail in 1863
St. Mary’s was, and still is, a very small town in Ontario Canada where my husband’s 3rd great-grandfather William Massey lived from 1860 until his death in 1865. Before 1860 he lived in Quebec with his wife and family. William, a teamster, worked for the newly formed American Express Company which had an office in St. Mary’s in the mid 1800s. In 1862 William was charged with stealing over $800.00 from the Company (approximately $20,000.00 now) and arraigned for trial. One of the jurors at his arraignment was non other than Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton’s Company stores. Continue reading William Massey’s story at William Massey Goes to Jail in 1863
The Elmvale Lance, Dec. 5, 1901
CRIMINAL SESSION AT BARRIE
Albert and Herman Vollick and Gabriel French who were accused of stealing a heifer from James Johnston of Flos were found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in Central Prison.
Judge Ardagh characterized the offence as a very grave and serious one, and punishable by 14 years in the penetentiary: though the Vollicks may have been led into it by French, he did not consider they were entitled to any leniency.
Albert and Herman Vollick were the brothers of my 2nd great grandmother Mary Elizabeth Vollick who was written about in “Putting Flesh on the Genealogy Bones”. Albert Nelson Vollick was born 1869 in Hay Township Huron County. His brother David Herman (Herman) Vollick was born 1879 in Wentworth County. They moved to Simcoe County Ontario with their parents and siblings some time after 1881.
British Columbia
Convict Deaths in the British Columbia Penitentiary, 1875 – 1916
Prisons of British Columbia for the Year Ending 31st October 1884
- Prisoners Liberated from Lytton Gaol
- Prisoners Remaining in Nanaimo Gaol
- Prisoners Liberated from Nanaimo Gaol
- Prisoners Remaining in New Westminster Gaol
- Prisoners Who Died in New Westminster Gaol
- Prisoners Liberated from New Westminster Gaol
- Prisoners Remaining in Victoria Gaol
- Prisoners Who Died in Victoria Gaol
- Prisoners Liberated from Victoria Gaol
- Prisoners Confined in Yale Gaol
1881 Census of Convicts at the BC Penitentiary
Thirty-seven convicts are identified on the 1881 census by an asterisk in the right column of the return. Of these, eleven were Chinese or of Chinese ancestry, and four or five were Aboriginal.
Boot Hill: Stories from the British Columbia Penitentiary Cemetery
- Index of individuals buried in the cemetery
- Wardens of the BC Penitentiary: 1912 – 1968
- Photographs of headstones and more
Quebec
Convicts Shipped from Lower Canada (Quebec) to Australia
1839-40
La Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec
This database is available in French, English & Spanish. When searching be sure to use the “Search Form”, it will provide applicable records. Some examples of available records:
Coroners’ inquests in the judicial districts of Beauce (1862-1947), Charlevoix (1862-1944), Montmagny (1862-1952), Québec (1765-1930) and Saint-François ( Sherbrooke) (1900-1954)
Jail logs of Québec City prisons in the 19th century
Preliminary inquiries in the judicial district of Québec, 1897-1927
List of Canadian Prisoners 1695
Ransomed by Quebec
List of Canadian Prisoners 1748
Sundry English prisoners, brought in from Louisburg by Aylmer Gravill, in the Schooner Brittania, who were transported there from Canada.