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Oakalla Prison Farm
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Dates of existence
1912-1991
History
Oakalla Prison farm opened on Sept 2, 1912 in Burnaby, B.C., on a site overlooking Deer Lake. The name referred to the Royal Oak neighbourhood in which it was located. A separate Women's Unit opened in 1940, renamed the Lakeside Correctional Centre for Women in 1975. Between 1919 and 1959, 44 hangings took place at Oakalla. Inmates worked on the farm until the 1970s, and manufactured car licence plates from the early 1930s until 1975. The name was changed officially to the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre in 1970. Oakalla was chronically overcrowded, once holding 1,269 inmates. On June 30, 1991 the facility closed; the buildings were razed and the site became a housing development.
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Revised PW/KH 2017-01-31
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Central Name Authority Files.
Encyclopedia of British Columbia