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Jul. 12th, 2007 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusI updated -- this part is a revised version of the middle of that post I put up a couple of days ago, on the English Renaissance.
I wish I had a travel budget for this project. Some of records I'm in are in Hamilton, Ontario. Others are in Toronto, or in Quebec City.
I also love that the second warden of the the Kingston Pentitentiary had the name Donald Aeneas MacDonald. Given the story about the underworld, "Aeneas" is the perfect name for a prison warden. he also shows up in earlier court trials -- he seems to have been a reformed criminal himself.
It's funny, doing research like this -- reading the words of mostly-anonymous people long dead, you develop an affection for some of them, become interested in their stories.
I wish I had a travel budget for this project. Some of records I'm in are in Hamilton, Ontario. Others are in Toronto, or in Quebec City.
I also love that the second warden of the the Kingston Pentitentiary had the name Donald Aeneas MacDonald. Given the story about the underworld, "Aeneas" is the perfect name for a prison warden. he also shows up in earlier court trials -- he seems to have been a reformed criminal himself.
It's funny, doing research like this -- reading the words of mostly-anonymous people long dead, you develop an affection for some of them, become interested in their stories.