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    The Waterloo County Gaol, located in Kitchener, Ontario, is a retired prison and historic site. Constructed in 1852, it is the oldest government building...
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    county officially began operations. The Waterloo County Gaol is the oldest government building in the Region of Waterloo. The Governor's House, home of the...
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    The Regional Municipality of Waterloo (Waterloo Region or Region of Waterloo) is a metropolitan area of Southern Ontario, Canada. It contains the cities...
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    The hostel was originally the Carleton County Gaol (jail), more commonly known as the Nicholas Street Gaol or Ottawa Jail. When the jail closed in 1972...
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    Waterloo County was a county in Canada West in the United Province of Canada from 1853 until 1867, then in the Canadian province of Ontario from 1867 until...
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    Baden, Ontario (category Communities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo)
    the Mutual Life office block, the Waterloo Town Hall, and the governor's (jailer's) house at the Waterloo County Gaol. In 1993, Castle Kilbride was purchased...
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  • of up to two years, less a day. Provincial jails (historically spelled gaols) and detention centres house persons awaiting trial, offenders serving short...
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  • Heritage Centre and Archives, Port Perry, closed 2019 Seagram Museum, Waterloo Shania Twain Centre, Timmins, closed in 2013 Timmins Underground Gold Mine...
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  • Guelph, Waterloo, Wilmot, Dumfries, Puslinch, Erin and Eramosa were withdrawn from Halton and transferred to it, to be known as Waterloo County. Upon the...
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    Mudgee Gaol were located at the north-west corner of the men's yard. The structure was about sixteen feet high (extending two feet above the gaol wall)...
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