BC Penitentiary Staff, July 1914. Photograph courtesy of New Westminster Public Library (visit the NWPL's Historical Photographs Database).

Boot Hill: Index of Photographs

BC Penitentiary Cemetery

Prisoner headstones
The cemetery as it appeared in 1955 (courtesy A.E. Martin)
Row of headstones in 1955 (courtesy A.E. Martin)
The same row of headstones in July 2003
The cemetery as it appeared in May 2003
Old fence surrounding cemetery (February 2004)

BC Penitentiary Buildings

1938 view from inside penitentiary yard (courtesy New Westminster Public Library)
Former BC Penitentiary gatehouse (February 2004)

BC Penitentiary Staff

Staff photo - July 1914 (courtesy New Westminster Public Library)
Warden John Cunningham Brown (courtesy BC Archives)
Warden JC Brown & Deputy William Carroll (courtesy New Westminster Museum & Archives)
Warden Brown's headstone, Fraser Cemetery (September 2003)
Warden Charles Edgar Edgett (courtesy Vancouver Police Department Centennial Museum)

Convicts

Sook Sias (aka John Hill) (courtesy A.E. Martin & Candy-Lea Chickite)
Jim Tarasoff (courtesy family of Jim Tarasoff)
Moses Paul (l.) and Paul Spintlum (r.) (courtesy T.W. Paterson)

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