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It was opened on 14 July 1880 as a maximum security penitentiary on a hill overlooking the Memramcook River valley. It is now, having been built three years after Stony Mountain Institution (1877), the second oldest federal corrections facility in Canada still in operation following the closure of Kingston Penitentiary on September 30, 2013.
This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada , all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
The prison received its first inmates in 1878 and opened without fanfare. [3] The buildings and structures that made up the BC Penitentiary site were added gradually. The original complex comprised the main gate house and a few brick and wooden buildings. The large cell blocks, which housed most of the inmates, were constructed between 1904 and ...
Kingston Penitentiary, c. 1901 Kingston Penitentiary cellblock Unique architecture under dome connecting the shop buildings. Constructed from 1833 to 1834 and opened on June 1, 1835, as the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada", it was one of the oldest prisons in continuous use in the world at the time of its closure in 2013.
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Guelph Jail 1840 1980 Haileybury Jail 1935 1998 Halton County Jail 1863 1978 Hamilton Jail 1832 1978 Home District Jail (Toronto) 1838 1887 Huron County Gaol: 1842 1972 Invictus Youth Centre King Street Gaol: 1798 1827(?) King Street Gaol: 1824 Kingston Jail 1835 2014 Kitchener Jail 1853 1978 L'Orignal Jail: 1825 1998 Lindsay Jail 1863 2003
The prison opened in 1914 [3] and shuttered in 1975, [4] after it was deemed to be too costly to run despite it being a self-sufficient institution. Prior to the construction of Highway 69 , Burwash was an isolated location in the Wanapitei River valley, [ 4 ] accessible only from a nearby station on the Canadian Northern Railway (today's ...
Originally constructed in 1859, it houses primarily male offenders and has a capacity of 175 inmates. It is believed to be the oldest prison currently operating in Canada [7] since the closure of Ontario's Kingston Penitentiary, in September 2013. [8]