Burwash Prison

Burwash Public School	House on the hill (overlooked the reunion food tent)	Ms. Labatt (school teacher)	Village before sidewalks	Village (1940)	Ballfield opposite the school	Farmlands staff houses	Inmate farm worker
Inmates haying	Dairy barn storing hay	Directing ice blocks from Lake Neilly into ice house	Guard and inmates offloading logs on Mill Lake	Hay wagon	Inmate and hay wagon	Inmates cutting ice blocks	Inmates loading cattle
Main cell block (1954)	Mill Lake saw mill yard	Prison hay fieldl	Staff dance at auditorium	Rear view of houses	Boarded up staff homes	Bungalows east of school	Looking west to huts hills
Main street towards huts hills	Inside view of the square	Loading cord wood	Another inside square view	Someones home	Staff housing
Village street looking East	Old sidewalk

BURWASH REUNION

September 2nd and 3rd, 2002 saw the Burwash Reunion. Thanks to Leonard Gervais and countless others, I was given a rare opportunity to talk to some of the people who ran Burwash.

Welcome	The path to the graveyard site	The entrance lies at the end of the path.	Rotting wood fencing is the only sign that anything once stood here. Yet the graves remain.	Festivities		"Welcome to Burwash. Population 350 (to-day)"	Setting up before the crowd arrives.	Setting up
Taking a drive to the firing range.	An old quilt which was being raffled.	Numbers on the firing range	Supper time (Brian Curtin is in there somewhere)	Supper	A cartoon from one of the scrapbooks

These two reunion pictures came from JW - thanks!

Art Blaskevitch, who greeted visitors in uniform.

Gordon Hall and Ron Degazio

GASTON'S BURWASH PICTURES

These pictures are dated 1969-70 and were submitted by Gaston P. (Thank you!).

The chapel (pic 1) stood out side and in front of the main camp and was used for Sunday services. It was used for a 10:00am mass that was opened to the outside. French river campers etc...It is believe that there was only one trustee permitted at that particular mass. The out buildings (pic 2) in that pic were possibly used for the beef herd as a shelter.

The rear of the gym that was built approximately two years before the Wash closed. It was to your left when you were facing the administration wing and connected to the complex at the south end of the building.

This picture is facing the entrance to the main camp. The stairs are hidden by the tree. This part was used as reception and administration. I believe the top part was used by administration of the whole complex, Camp Bison and the bush camp included. The middle floor(most prominent windows) was were the "RACE TRACK" was situated. It held the NCO's room, censor's office , security office and also the room were all the Jackets(inmates files and Yellow sheets) were held. The bottom row of windows was were there were correctional officers room was held. It was were we would meet for breaks etc.

NOTE the brick wall to the right of the picture was the hallway that led to trustees quarters and were new inmates were placed before they were classified.

TERRY VAN SETERS PICTURES

Terry van Seters graciously donated these vintage Burwash pictures.

The huts, left to right, Billy & Terry van Seters, Bobbie and Freddie Moore - 1959	The huts, Billy & Terry van Seters, Cathy Crossman (slabs in the background built the impregnable fortresses in front of everybodies property)	Tthe huts, Billy & Terry van Seters, Larry Marchment, Dickie van Setersn	Between the huts, Terry van Seters and Cathy Crossman 1960	Burwash church, Richard van Seters confirmation class Oct. 1963
Cubs (Mrs. Trowbridge would be proud) Billy & Terry van Seters June 1963	Hockey banquet May 1963 inside the Burwash canteen	Yes! that's Rocket Richard with Billy & Terry van Seters	Front steps, end unit, the huts, Billy, Terry & Dickie van Seters, Grace in the window

ANDY'S PICTURES

These pictures come from Andy Fyon, who runs www.ontariowildflower.com.
Visit his webpage for more assorted pictures.

Number of photos: 113
Approx. Latitude: 46 14 22	Approx. Longitude: 80 51 03
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Entrance Sign	Lake by main road	Lake by main road	Lake	At the tracks (note trail)	Down the tracks	Beautiful fall view	Field where inmates once worked	Main road
Field where inmates once worked	1943 report on Burwash detailing costs/production

Cell Block, front view Left wing, contained hospital, doctors, dentist,offices,. Second & third floors were dormitaries by 1980 all bars & salvagable items had been stripped out	Entrance to left Wing Hospital,Medical staff and dormitories	3rd Floor dormitories You can see the effects after being subjected to the elements for a few years,note the windows & radiators,as well as missing window bars	Interior of cell
Interior of cell	Exercise Yard View from outside the yard looking in	Center section of building,rear this is a view of the exercise yard from the 3rd floor dormitory window, this was a walking yard in the summer, in the Winter the inmates held Hockey games within the yard, note the white boards and the players boxes this section of the building itself held the offices of the supt. and administrative staff.	Right wing of building this consisted of individual cells, again the weather has beat up the area for awhile, cells had a bunk , toilet, sink & desk,part of one can still be seen, the sliding cell bar doors have been removed