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Isbister, Alexander Kennedy (1822-1883) [info]. A proposal for a new penal settlement, in connexion with the colonization of the uninhabited districts of British North America. London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850.

Physical description: [2], 1 leaf, 22 p.; 22 cm.

Language: English

With former penal colonies such as New South Wales reluctant to receive more convicts, Isbister asked what was to be done with 6,000 persons annually convicted in Britain, and suggests that Rupert's Land would make as satisfactory a penal colony as Russia's Siberia.

Subject headings:

• British--Canada
• Land settlement
• Prairie Provinces--Description and travel
• Prisoners