The British Columbia Penitentiary (BC Penitentiary, commonly referred to as the BC Pen and the Pen) was a federal maximum security prison located in New...
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Stony Mountain Institution (redirect from Stony Mountain Penitentiary)
1873, British Columbia Penitentiary in 1878, Dorchester Penitentiary in 1880, Alberta Penitentiary in Edmonton in 1906, and Saskatchewan Penitentiary in...
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Millhaven Institution (redirect from Millhaven Penitentiary)
asserted that their strike was in solidarity with a strike at the British Columbia Penitentiary, and their strike inspired sympathy hunger strikes at Collins...
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New Westminster (redirect from New Westminster, British Columbia)
In 1878, the Government of Canada opened the British Columbia Penitentiary, the first federal penitentiary west of Manitoba. "BC Pen", or simply "the Pen"...
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Correctional Service of Canada (redirect from Canadian Penitentiary Service)
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Quebec (1873), Manitoba Penitentiary, in Stoney Mountain, Manitoba (1877), British Columbia Penitentiary, in...
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who was an old volunteer firefighter. British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster. The former penitentiary was active for 102 years, until decommissioned...
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age of 25, he enlisted as a guard at Manitoba Penitentiary (known today as the Stony Mountain Penitentiary). During World War I, he saw action overseas...
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Sapperton, New Westminster (redirect from Sapperton, British Columbia)
concentrated on Brunette Avenue and Columbia Street and is also northeast of the former British Columbia Penitentiary. The neighbourhood was the location...
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Kingston Penitentiary (known locally as KP and Kingston Pen) is a former maximum security prison located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, between King Street...
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The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (category British plays)
is 1958. Convict Mitch Ruscitti, currently imprisoned at the British Columbia Penitentiary, hatches an escape plan with Neil Cooper, one of the guards...
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Robert D. Hare (category Academic staff of the University of British Columbia)
worked as the psychologist in the prison system in British Columbia (British Columbia Penitentiary) for eight months, an area in which he had no particular...
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Mountain Institution (category Kent, British Columbia)
federal penitentiary operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). It is located in the town of Agassiz, District of Kent, British Columbia, approximately...
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Centre (former Carnegie Library) British Columbia Penitentiary cell blocks, New Westminster, 1904-1914. British Columbia Courthouse (now home to the Vancouver...
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(1984) – Canadian drama film depicting a dramatization of the British Columbia Penitentiary hostage incident of 1975 The Wannsee Conference (German: Die...
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The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and...
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Muni Evers (category British Columbia mayor stubs)
Westminster in 1973. Evers also oversaw the transfer of the British Columbia Penitentiary lands to the city of New Westminster in the 1980s. During this...
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Supermax prison (redirect from Maximum Security Penitentiary)
Institution – Columbia, South Carolina Tennessee Riverbend Maximum Security Institution – Nashville, Tennessee Texas United States Penitentiary – Beaumont...
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The British Columbia Terms of Union is an Order in Council of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and forms part of the Constitution of Canada. British...
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Walls (1984 film) (category Films set in British Columbia)
play by Christian Bruyère, the film is a dramatization of the British Columbia Penitentiary hostage incident of 1975. The film stars Winston Rekert as Danny...
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Robert Pickton (category Criminals from British Columbia)
acknowledge the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, with the British Columbia provincial government forming the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry...
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Correction(s) (1999) consisted of mug shots of prisoners in the British Columbia Penitentiary and the records of their crime and daily habits while incarcerated...
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(25 September 1881 - 9 January 1947) was the warden of the British Columbia Penitentiary (1929–1931), the Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department...
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List of former inmates at ADX Florence (redirect from Notable former inmates of the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADMAX)
federal facilities. Eyad Ismoil 37802-054 Transferred to United States Penitentiary, Lee. Serving a 210-year sentence, which was reduced from 240-year sentence...
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Kent Institution (category Prisons in British Columbia)
(CSC) facility located in Agassiz, British Columbia. Opened in 1979, Kent is the only maximum security federal penitentiary in the CSC's Pacific region, which...
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seven prisoners spent 11.5 years in solitary confinement at the British Columbia Penitentiary. Specifically, Jack Emmett McCann spent a total of 1,471 days...
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Bill Miner (category History of British Columbia)
escape attempt. Miner's time in British Columbia propelled his celebrity there in many ways since. British Columbia restaurant chain, the Keg Steakhouse...
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William Wymond Walkem (category Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia)
Victoria Daily Standard for a time. He served as inspector for British Columbia Penitentiary and was a coroner for the province from 1878 to 1895. Walkem...
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John Cunningham Brown (category Independent MLAs in British Columbia)
Gifford in September 1901. In 1907, he was named warden for the British Columbia Penitentiary, located in New Westminster. He died in New Westminster at the...
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Benjamin Pearse (category English emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia)
Robert McInnes and Arthur Bunster over the construction of the British Columbia Penitentiary. Though Pearse was found innocent of charges in an official...
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McNair escaped with two other prisoners from the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck, North Dakota, by crawling through a ventilation duct. One...
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