Provincial Jail (aka Hillside Jail/Gaol, Topaz Jail),
First (later Rose, now Blanshard) Street, SE corner at Topaz Avenue,
'Hillside Extension' (Hillside-Quardra neighbourhood), Victoria, BC.
Warden R. F. John and staff, c.1892.
Built in 1885. Partially destroyed by fire in late 1911. Replaced by Wilkinson Road jail in Saanich (opened in 1913, extant).
The red brick Hillside Gaol, sometimes called Topaz Jail, and situated in a grove of Garry oak trees on a rocky slope north of Hillside Avenue. The three-storey central block with two wings looked over the “Hillside Extension.” The 66-cell structure opened in 1885 to replace the cramped and crumbling Police Barracks and Gaol in Bastion Square. Following a fire, it was demolished and the remaining foundations afforded neighbourhood children a place to play hide and seek and to hunt tadpoles when the cavities filled with rainwater.
S.J. Willis Junior High School was built on the site in 1949.
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