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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the town designated as the seat of the district courts and other offices of municipal government in each of the districts of Canada West.

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1853

Belleville had just been incorporated as the metropolitan town of the Victoria District, and my husband presided as Sheriff in the first court ever held in the place.