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Nicholas Street GaolThe Nicholas Street Gaol was the main jail of Ottawa, Canada for over a century. The structure at 75 Nicholas Street was built as the Carleton County Jail in 1862 next door to the court house. It was home to the death row and the building was the site of the last public hanging in Canada when Patrick Whelan was executed there in 1868 for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee. The last execution at the jail took place on March 27, 1946 when Eugene Larmont, who had killed an Ottawa police detective, was hanged. The building remained in use as a jail until 1972 when the outdated facility was closed. It reopened the next year as a youth hostel. It remains Ottawa's youth hostel.
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