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Canada’s Penitentiary Museum is pleased to announce we will be re-opening for our summer season on Monday, May 6. Our hours will be 9am to 4pm, Monday to Sunday. We’re excited to see you, and we’re looking forward to a great summer 2024! For more information, please phone: 613.530.3122 or e-mail us at info@penitentiarymuseum.ca The photo […]

Museum researchers are proud to have worked on this article about the important role women have played in Corrections since the earliest days. “For now, travel back in time with us to learn more about the important role women have played in corrections since the first penitentiary opened in Kingston in 1835. Today, we’re proud

Museum researchers are very pleased to have worked on this article. Very informative! While Women’s History Month is recognized in October in Canada, it is commemorated in March in various other countries around the world. To commemorate, take a journey back in time with us, all the way to 1835 to learn more about who

In time for Remembrance Day, a look at the ‘unknown front’ of World War 2: the home front. How did Canadian penitentiaries contribute to the war effort? In 1943, journalists and photographers visited three Canadian penitentiaries to answer this question. Read here: https://www.canada.ca/…/2023/11-10-pen-goes-to-war.html This story was published in Let’s Talk by the Correctional Service of

Canada’s Penitentiary Museum is now closed for the 2023 season. We would like to thank the over 30,000 people who visited the Museum this year – on the 150th anniversary of Cedarhedge. Thank you to our staff and volunteers who did so much to make our visitors’ experience memorable. See you in 2024! // Le

This is the last week Canada’s Penitentiary Museum is open for the season! We’re still celebrating #cedarhedge150, so please come visit before November 3! /// C’est la dernière semaine que le Musée pénitentiaire du Canada est ouvert pour la saison ! Nous célébrons toujours #cedarhedge150, alors venez nous rendre visite avant le 3 novembre !

For #cedarhedge150, a reflection by the Museum’s curator, Dave St. Onge: It was one hundred and fifty years ago today that Warden John Creighton moved into the recently completed Warden’s residence, along with his young family and his elderly father. This marked the commencement of 150 years of experience in what came to be known

The Museum is proud to highlight this article published in the Correctional Service of Canada’s ‘Let’s Talk Express.’ Written by Curator Dave St. Onge and researcher Cameron Willis, it’s a succinct history about the introduction of prisoner photographic identification – or mugshots – in Canadian federal prisons. It took a few years of research but