Listowel’s policing history older than town itself

Policing in these parts is older than the town of Listowel itself; the first policeman, Robert Woods, hired on in 1869, six years before the town’s incorporation.  In Centennial At Listowel, a commemorative book published in 1975 by the centennial committee, a chapter on the local history of policing details how the crime-fighting force was…

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