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Название: Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada

Автор: Janice Nickerson

Издательство: Ingram

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Серия: Genealogist's Reference Shelf

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      Crime and

      Punishment in

      Upper Canada

       GENEALOGIST’S REFERENCE SHELF

      Crime and

      Punishment in

      Upper Canada

      JANICE NICKERSON

       A Researcher’s Guide

      Copyright © 2010 Janice Nickerson

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Editor: Ruth Chernia

       Copy editor: Cheryl Hawley

       Design: Courtney Horner

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       Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Nickerson, Janice C., 1969-

       Crime and punishment in Upper Canada : a researcher's guide / by

      Janice Nickerson.

      (Genealogist's reference shelf)

       Co-published by: Ontario Genealogical Society.

      Issued also in electronic format.

       ISBN 978-1-55488-770-5

      1. Crime--Ontario--History--Sources. 2. Criminal justice, Administration

      of--Ontario--History--Sources. 3. Court records--Ontario--Archival

       resources. 4. Criminal records--Ontario--Archival resources. 5. Crime-

      Ontario--Archival resources. 6. Criminal justice, Administration of--Ontario-Archival resources. 7. Upper Canada--Archival resources. 8. Ontario--Archival

      resources. 9. Ontario--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Ontario

       Genealogical Society II. Title. III. Series: Genealogist's reference shelf

      HV6809.O6N53 2010 364.971309'034 C2010-902406-0

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

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      CONTENTS

       Chapter Four: Sentencing and Punishment

       Chapter Five: Public Opinion: Popular Response and Resistance

       Chapter Six: Justice Personnel

       Chapter Seven: What Changed After 1841?

       Chapter Eight: Research Advice and Records by District

       Appendix: Monarchs, Court Terms, and Currency

       Glossary

       Reading List/Bibliography

       Notes

       Index

      The idea for this book was conceived as I struggled to understand the morass of records created by the Upper Canadian justice system in my work as a professional genealogist.

      I was faced with a project in which a client’s ancestor had been accused of criminal activity. How could I find out more? Where should I look? The answers were not easy to find. And as I began examining the original records, I found them difficult to understand because I didn’t know enough about the way the justice system worked. I didn’t know who the personnel were, why they created the records they did, and how to locate those records that survived. I gradually came to believe that a guide for other researchers was needed.

      Foremost in my mind were genealogists seeking to learn about their own ancestors’ brushes with the law. However, researchers in other historical fields may also find it useful to have information about the entire system of justice in Upper Canada and its records gathered in one place.

      This is not a typical genealogist’s guide, in that it is only partly about the records. СКАЧАТЬ