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Roche, Alfred R. (d.1876) [info]. New disposal of convicts. [Toronto: W.C. Chewett & Co., printers, 1863].

Physical description: 29 p.; 22.5 cm.

Language: English

Signed: "A.R.R., Toronto, January, 1863." Reprinted from the letter of the Canadian correspondent of the London Morning Post , April 3rd, 1856. Excerpts from various newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic on the subject of penal colonies in Rupert's Land on pages 18-29. Roche promulgated the idea "that the Hudson's Bay and North West Territories offer the most suitable field for the reception, safe custody, and reform of English criminals."

Subject headings:

• Journalists
• Land settlement
• Letters
• Prairie Provinces--Description and travel
• Prisoners

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