Mount Thurston — above: shop (1990s) Right above: Mount
Thurston Forestry Camp administration building (date: unknown)
Right below: Living unit at Mount Thurston Forestry Camp
(date: unknown) Corrections Branch Archives

secure camps—Mt. Thurston Forestry Campin | A third camp, known as Centre Creek Camp,
the Chilltwack valley—was designed to get was built in 1959 to assist with road
higher risk inmates out of Oakalla’s Westgate. construction and the planting of seedlings for
Removing inmates from Westgate and Oakalla the B.C. Forest Service. Gold Creek Camp,
was a priority. Westgate, which was never located in Garibaldi Park, also began operation
intended as a permanent facility, violated at the beginning of the year. It was the first
building code standards and needed to be camp to operate other than as a pre-release
closed. camp. Offenders served a major portion of
their sentence—in some cases, their entire
sentence—at this camp once the classification
process was completed.

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