Oakalla Prison Farm

OAKALLA PRISON FARM  () , a provincial penal institution, opened on 2 Sept 1912 in BURNABY on a site overlooking Deer Lk. The name, which was changed officially to the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre in 1970, referred to the Royal Oak neighbourhood in which it was located. Between 1919 and 1959, 44 hangings took place. Inmates worked on the farm until the 1970s, and manufactured car licence plates from the early 1930s until 1975....

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