Bank robbers, labour leaders and political prisoners: 140 years of history at Stony Mountain Institution
 

Aug. 15, 1877 was a Wednesday but people in Stony Mountain were dressed in their Sunday best clustered together waiting for very honoured guests to arrive to celebrate the official opening of Manitoba’s first federal penitentiary.


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