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Oakalla Prison collection
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription16696
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1974]-1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 37.5 cm of textual records + 125 photographs + 1 videocassette
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of a selection of Oakalla correctional facility records including reports, correspondence, photographs and a video tour of the death row incarceration cells inside Oakalla Prison taken by Burnaby Village Museum curator after the facility was closed. Most of the photographs docum…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 37.5 cm of textual records + 125 photographs + 1 videocassette
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of a selection of Oakalla correctional facility records including reports, correspondence, photographs and a video tour of the death row incarceration cells inside Oakalla Prison taken by Burnaby Village Museum curator after the facility was closed. Most of the photographs document Oakalla Prison in 1991 and were taken during the Open House event or when Burnaby Village Museum staff were granted access to retreive items prior to demolition. A small selection of facility photographs of site and staff are also included.
- Records are arranged into series:
- 1) Oakalla correctional facility records series
- 2) Oakalla correctional facility photographs series
- 3) Oakalla documentary photographs and video series
- History
- The Oakalla Prison Farm (also known as the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre) was a model prison farm on 185 acres of land next to Deer Lake in Burnaby. The Oakalla Prison Farm opened in 1912 and was initially designed to hold 150 men and 50 women. By the 1950s, the population was well over one thousand. The prison included a working farm which included a dairy, vegetable gardens and livestock. In 1959 the last execution in British Columbia took place at Oakalla. Following a riot and mass escape in the late 1980s, poor conditions, and public outcry, Oakalla closed down in 1991. In the fall of 1991, the prison was opened up to the public whereby tours were conducted of the site. Not long after, buildings were demolished and a residential housing development took it's place. A playground now sits on the former site of the main building. In 1991, staff from Burnaby Village Museum were granted access, documenting the site prior to it's demolition. Many Oakalla artifacts and records were salvaged and accessioned into the Burnaby Village Museum's permanent collection.
- Responsibility
- Oakalla Prison Farm
- Accession Code
- BV991.45
- Date
- [1974]-1991
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Moving Images
- Related Material
- See also Oakalla artifacts - BV991.45
- Arrangement
- Arrangement of records and series of this collection is based on record creators and subject that. Facility records and photographs were created and collected by Oakalla correctional facility staff and documentary photographs and a video from 1991 were created by Burnaby Village Museum staff.
- Notes
- Title based on content of collection
- Some records within this collection are closed. Contact Burnaby Village Museum for access.
David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19613
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1913-1925, predominant 1924-1925
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 album (photographs)
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of a photograph album titled "2nd Burnaby Troop Boy Scouts" that originated from the estate of David Geoffery Llewellyn. The album includes photographs and ephemera relating to the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scouts, May Days in New Westminster and Burnaby, Burnaby Girl Guides and childhood…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 album (photographs)
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of a photograph album titled "2nd Burnaby Troop Boy Scouts" that originated from the estate of David Geoffery Llewellyn. The album includes photographs and ephemera relating to the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scouts, May Days in New Westminster and Burnaby, Burnaby Girl Guides and childhood photographs that may pertain to other family relations.
- History
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn was born in 1931 in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan to parents Harold George Llewellyn (1887-1977) and Madeline Emily (nee Birchmore) (1895-1988). Harold George Llewellyn and his wife Madeline Emily Llewellyn had six children named; Allan, David Geoffrey, Cecilia (Friend), Joyce (Olson) and twins, Bethel Wynne (Rash) and Lynne (Higginson). Sometime after David was born, the family moved to Burnaby and Harold George Llewellyn worked as a machinist at a Steel Manufacturing Plant. David was a self employed Electronic Engineer who lived in Burnaby. David was married to Judith Maureen (nee Evans nee Llewellyn) Miller. David and Judith had two children, Lisa and John. David Geoffrey Llewellyn died in 1981.
- Responsibility
- Llewellyn, David Geoffrey
- Accession Code
- BV995.8
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1913-1925, predominant 1924-1925
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Arrangement
- Album has been described in original order of content within
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds