The Kingston Penitentiary was located in Kingston, Ontario, and the penitentiary produced a series of Kingston Penitentiary Inmate History Description Ledgers from 1913 to 1916 in which there is detailed informant on each of the prisoners.
The ledger includes frontal and profile mug shots, the inmate’s name, alias, age, place of birth, height, weight, complexion, eye colour, hair colour, distinctive physical marks, occupation, sentence, date of sentence, place of sentence, crime committed, and remarks of authorities.
The ledger books are held by the Library and Archives Canada.
The ledger books are now on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/sets/72157649959725467/#
Information on The Kingston Penitentiary is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Penitentiary
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