Burnaby, British Columbia recent comments:

You sir are a Burnaby legend in my book! That's some mission impossible stuff!

Wow. Good on ya!

Ridiculously late response. My late father was also an inmate at Oakalla. I'm not sure of the years but he was apparently notorious for escaping from various clinks. It would be interesting if you two knew one another. He was a boxer with a Slavic surname.

This page is based on a Wikipedia article that was a fake, and has been removed. It was just five ordinary rocks, positioned to catch rainwater as it fell off the roof of the rapid transit station. The rocks were removed in about 2014 when the station was expanded.

(from Burnaby Minor Lacrosse Club website) About Jack Crosby Memorial Lacrosse Box A lacrosse box was opened for use in July 2007 at the Riverway Sports Complex in southwest Burnaby (Nelson Avenue and Marine Way). It is located between the south parking lot and the softball diamond/sports field. It has a regulation size asphalt floor, 4 feet high side boards with 12 feet high end zone boards. The lacrosse box will be officially opened and dedicated on July 26, and officially named the Jack Crosby Memorial Lacrosse Box.

Is it so you can live and chill in the park right 100 meters near the incinerator?

That does indeed make perfect sense from the HBC "Colony" who has just named a huge area of First Nations land as belonging to their "colony" and signed an agreement with the Dominion to take a loan for a then new Oakalla prison to help them "control" any "objectors" to the HBC "Colony" land takeover. A Colony has no Right of Law and a Colony has no Land Entitlement and a Treaty does not negate Land Entitlement. One of the first things they did was to negate the First Nations Potlatches.

To the best of my knowledge, Oakalla was originally built to house natives who were busted for holding potlatch....

Was ex-McGill Library.

Still an empty lot in 2016

Torn down in 2014 in preparation for a condo building under a Legion Hall. Abandoned lot in 2015-2017.

Bottom floor is Shopper's Drug Mart.

2016 becames Jane's in the Heights. Good western and chinese food

Also ex-Woolworth's 5-10 in 1950s-1979s

I was a guest of O.P.F. many, many years ago. I considered myself a B.& E. artist, and paid dearly for it. I saw the really scary side of life, for real. Under the cow barn (isolation) was the worst. You did not know if it was day or night, Tues. or Fri. It didn't really matter. I was in Westgate A (under 23 years old) so there wasn't a lot of the Hollywood movie crap. I/we saw plenty of attempted suicides, escapes from work gangs, stabbings, (usually rats and child molesters) but the worst was probably the human despair, and loss of hope. Everyone thought they were tough, and as soon as they exhibited it, they were shown exactly what tough was all about. The food was nothing short of excellent, and the guards were, for the most part, pretty damned nice guys. Take my word for it, when I say I could not visualize myself saying that 50 years later. I got Parole Violated, and went back to jail to complete my sentence, which was just over six months. I requested a return to Westgate A, and my wish was granted. Most of the same guys were still there. I firmly believe most of those people are still there, or have died of drug overdoses.Myself.....I took the word 'Correction' literally and have never been back, and never intend to. There is no reason for me to ever break the law again. I have a loving wife, a brand new vehicle, a paid for house, 4 grown children, and close to $1Million in the bank (with investments) Oakalla is just a bad memory from the distant past, but it will always be a stain on my very life!!!!

You are absolutely correct. In the 70's my foolish friends and I would run through the tunnel and up the 150ft escape ladders and exit the building and walk back to my volkswagen bug and drive home. We had to race the allarm. Fun back then, doesn't seem like a terribly smart idea now :)

200 feet.

What in the world is wrong Surrey King George and 102 They just can't get the order right. You ask for a grill order,it come to you cold,you ask for no cheese,and it comes with cheese.They us the excuse that it was busy,but no one at the counter and I am the second car in the drive through.I even repeated the order to the girl at the pay window because it was not correct on the display screen. Then the manager can even say I'm sorry but treat me like it was my fault. Get real.

This area is about 77 m above sea level, with the tunnel entrance (Burnaby) around 20m and exit (Vancouver) around 30m. That this building is 45m above the tunnel seems very likely.