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Burnaby Art Gallery

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The Burnaby Art Gallery (abbreviated as BAG) is an art museum in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The museum is located on the northern periphery of Deer Lake Park, situated off of Deer Lake Avenue. The museum occupies Fairacres Mansion, a historic residence designated as a historic site by the provincial government. The institution was established through a private association in 1967, who used the publicly owned Fairacres Mansion to exhibit its collection. The association continued to manage the museum until 1998, when the municipal government of Burnaby assumed control of the museum's collections, and governance. The museum's permanent collection holds more than 6,300 artworks. It is the only public art collection in Canada dedicated to works on paper.

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Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby

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Deer Lake Avenue 6344
V5G 1M2 Burnaby
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The Oakalla Prison Farm (also known as the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre or LMRCC) was a model prison farm on 185 acres (75 ha) of land next to Deer Lake, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The Oakalla Prison Farm opened in 1912 and was initially designed to hold 150 men and women. In 1916, the women's section officially opened, and in 1942 the woman's unit, being a whole separate facility opened on the grounds opened. This was renamed to the "Lakeside Correctional Centre for Women" in 1979. The original woman's unit was expanded in 1953, and consisted of two cottage style buildings.By the 1950s, the population was well over 1000. As a working farm, the prison had its own dairy, vegetable gardens and livestock. Executions in British Columbia were primarily carried out in Oakalla, with it being the only location after 1919. with 44 prisoners hanged at Oakalla between 1919 and 1959. In 1959 the last execution in British Columbia took place at Oakalla, with former sailor Leo Mantha aged 33 being hanged.Oakalla was also one of the locations where the experiment of performing cosmetic surgery on inmates to remove deformities that made prisoners "more likely to offend". The experiment was led by Dr. Edward Lewison, and continued into the mid 1960s. Procedures were conducted on 450 inmates, voluntarily. Of the population of inmates whom received surgery, the recidivism rate was 42 percent, against the 72 percent of the general population. These findings led to the rise of more programs being started around Canada and the United States. However Dr. Lewison later states the validity may be flawed as he did not have a control group of "disfigured inmates who had not received surgery", and he also states the process for selection of inmates to have surgery performed on them may have been flawed. There have been studies recently showing that "good looking" people are more likely to be paid more as well as more likely to get lesser sentences for criminal acts they perform, which may give some legitimacy to the former study. The farm portion of the prison, providing work for the inmates and food in the prison, closed in 1979 and 64 acres of land were transferred to the city of Burnaby, British Columbia. This land was included in the existing deer lake park that was adjacent to the prison. Following a riot in 1983 and a mass escape in 1987, Oakalla was closed down in 1991 and was developed into a new residential housing development and an expansion of the park. Prisoners from Oakalla were then moved to various other Correctional Facilities in British Columbia, consisting of but not limited to, Vancouver Pretrial Services Centre (VPSC), Fraser Regional (FRCC), Alouette Regional Correctional Centre (ARCC) (Later Alouette Correctional Centre for Women).