Mainland 5 - BC Penitentiary was IN OUR TINY HOMETOWN

Mainland

English - December 01, 2018 23:00 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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Joel and Natalie look into the history of the BC Penitentiary, which used to exist in our home town of New Westminster! Natalie narrates this one! Listen along, and gasp with Joel!

We discover the many, many riots that occurred in the BC Penitentiary (not that long ago), some of its colourful characters and colourful hostage situations, and a longing for Colin Mochrie and Stuart Mclean!

Resources/further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Penitentiary

https://globalnews.ca/news/4289410/bc-penitentiary-graveyard-new-westminster/

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/08/30/why-a-federal-prison-cemetery-in-bc-was-brought-back-to-life.html

https://www.newwestcity.ca/2018/08/27/city-of-new-westminster-to-unveil-restored-bc-penitentiary-cemetery.php

https://www.bcmag.ca/riots-hostage-taking-british-columbia-penitentiarys-bloody-history/

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In this episode's ad for Cascadia, we used Cool Blast by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

Intro and outro music is written and performed by Joel Mackenzie. See his music at joelmackenzie.bandcamp.com.