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Upper Canada was a cash-poor province without its own currency. As a result, the economy of the province was based upon credit-debt relationships. To be in debt was to be in danger of indefinite imprisonment. The only protection was a reputation for being able to pay those debts - "respectability" indicated a person's credit-worthiness.
Tara Reid has been a constant subject of tabloid headlines ever since hitting it big in 1999's American Pie. ET visited the actress at home to find out how she copes with all the negative press.
I Am Canada is a series of Canadian historical novels marketed at older boys, with the first book being published in September 2010. The series is written by a variety of Canadian authors and is published by Scholastic Canada Ltd.
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Kingston Penitentiary, c. 1901 Kingston Penitentiary cellblock Unique architecture under dome connecting the shop buildings. Constructed from 1833 to 1834 and opened on June 1, 1835, as the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada", it was one of the oldest prisons in continuous use in the world at the time of its closure in 2013.
This category is for autobiographies or memoirs in book form dealing with significant episodes of imprisonment, or by a prison guard or officer. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Convict Loverreproduces the letters interspersed with the story of incarceration inside Canada's most notorious prison and the struggle for human connection. Now considered a classic in Canadian creative nonfiction, The Convict Lover was chosen as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 1996 by the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire Magazine, Elm ...
Go-Boy! covered in graphic detail how prisoners were subjected to corporal punishment by being whipped with paddles designed to inflict physical pain. Caron was paddled on two occasions within a short time when he was 17 years old with a 1 ⁄ 4-inch-thick (6.4 mm) leather paddle while strapped into a device he described as "a mass of metal tubing contoured to embrace a human form and, affixed ...