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"CHINESE SHOPLIFTER IS SENT TO PRISON," Victoria Daily Times. December 23, 1913. Page 18. ---- Stole Bottle of Perfume From Spencer Store and Gets Two Months ---- There have been some complaints made to the police about petty pilfering in the stores during the Christmas rush, but nothing very extensive is being done, and there do not appear to be any professional shop-lifters at work.

Acting on information the police had received in regard to a Chinese, Detective Macdonald arrested So Kee as he came out of Spencer's about eight o'clock last night, following him across View street and arresting him on the other side. So Kee had in his hand a small parcel wrapped up, but a casual feeling of his clothes failed to reveal anything concealed.

Macdonald took his prisoner to the detective-office for more careful search. The door was locked and he had to reach for his keys. When the Chinese heard the keys jingle he began to struggle with the officer and proved to be a husky individual. Macdonald had to call in the assistance of a passing citizen to open the door for him.

In the struggle a bottle fell from the clothes of the man and broke on the pavement. When he had the man secured inside, Macdonald went out and found a twelve-ounce bottle which had contained perfume. In falling the corner had been knocked off the bottom and the contents had vanished, but the air carried scents of new-mown hay such as even the market building never knew before. The bottle was unwrapped and there was everything to indicate that it had not left Spencer's as a purchase.

Inquiry there showed that no sale had been made of the bottle, and today So Kee was accused of stealing it from David Spencer, Limited, pleading not guilty and being defended by J. S. Brandon.

Miss Mary Bell, assistant manager of the drug department, identified the bottle and her marks on it. The bottle was one from which perfume was retailed, and none of the clerks would have been able to sell it either whole or part filled without obtaining a price on it from the manager or herself. She was certain that the bottle had not been sold, as under the office system it would be impossible for this to take place without her knowledge, and a record being in existence.

There was nothing to be said for the defence, and So was sent to jail for two months.

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Wednesday incident leaves person in custody at Saanich jail needing medical attention - Saanich News

Wednesday incident leaves person in custody at Saanich jail needing medical attention – Saanich News

One person in custody needed medical attention after an incident at the Wilkinson Road jail on Wednesday. (Facebook photo/Koa Barroeta) Wednesday incident leaves person in custody at Saanich jail needing medical attention No details about what happened could be provided on Sept. 29 One person in custody needed medical attention after an incident at the Wilkinson Road jail on Wednesday. A…

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Evergreen Suspension Latest in Compliance Shortfalls

  Health Canada Suggests Evergreen Diverting Cannabis to Black Market – LPC

Health Canada announced it suspended Evergreen Medicinal Supply, Inc.’s cultivation and medical sales licences. The Evergreen suspension actually came in August after an unannounced Health Canada inspection. Health Canada spokesperson Tammy Jarbeau confirmed the move to BNN Bloomberg (see link below). She indicated that part of the reason was concerns about Evergreen cannabis going to the black market. “Health Canada suspended Evergreen Medicinal Supply’s licences to protect public health and safety, including preventing cannabis from being diverted to the illegal market, as a result of non-compliance with certain provisions of the Cannabis Act and Cannabis Regulations,” Jarbeau said. The Evergreen suspension comes on the heels of other high profile suspensions. Bonify Medical Cannabis in Winnipeg had its licence suspended in early 2019 after Health Canada found it was selling unlicensed cannabis. CannTrust Holdings Inc. had its licensed pulled for illegal cannabis activity including unlicensed growing areas. Although the CannTrust matter is still undecided, fines and jail time for executives and workers are all possibilities.

Story Goes Deeper Than Evergreen Suspension – LPC

The Evergreen suspension is just part of the story. Court documents in BC show that Evergreen landlord Philip Illingworth sued Evergreen. Illingworth said the company owes him $425,061 in back rent. The court found Evergreen had not paid rent in three years of its five-year lease. The lease itself expired at the end of December 2018, which Evergreen also contested. The court ordered Evergreen to vacate the 5,700-square-foot facility by the end of August 2019. The facility is located in Central Saanich, BC on Vancouver Island, about 20 kilometres north of Victoria. Meanwhile, the Evergreen website has been essentially shut down with a temporary splash page blocking access to the site. It is unclear if the splash page appeared before or after the Evergreen suspension. This editorial content from the LPC News Team is meant to provide analysis, insight, and perspective on current news articles. To read the source article this commentary is based upon, please click on the link below. Click here to view full story at www.bnnbloomberg.ca Read the full article

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Hello there, many people know the police are harassing me.... violating section 65.2 of the BC POLICE ACT RSBC 1996 NOwhere in the BC police act rsbc 1996 does it say when filing a verbal complaint for disparaging comments about my sexuality or father's death by a Saanich police officer ..... does the police act state one can't raise their voice or yell, outraged when filing a complaint. In fact, from spending time at the library no police act internationally states a person can't raise their voice when filing a verbal complaint. The Victoria police community has retaliated escalating with harassing mental health act arrests as uneducated malcontents like Mike Martin bullying seek controlling power.as they file criminal charges against me. In fact when no longer on probation I phoned before stopping by my family home to speak to my mother Anna isabel Davidson about how I was and to ask her if she would manage my artistic career only to get arrested at gunpoint and thrown in jail, just for trying to connect with my family. (at Oak Bay, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDn5dUyjxjD/?igshid=110tzo9vgvn22

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What’s Current: Mexican woman convicted of homicide for miscarrying walks free

What’s Current: Mexican woman convicted of homicide for miscarrying walks free

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A Mexican woman who was sentenced to 16 years in jail after miscarrying in a department store bathroom has walked free after a court overturned her homicide conviction.

Despite filing bankruptcy papers, proceedingsagainst Matthew Schwabe, accused of hiding a camera in the women’s washroom at Mattick’s Red Barn Market in Saanich on Vancouver Island, then uploading photos to a…

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"Meeting Of Protest Planned At Nanaimo," The Inland Sentinel (Kamloops). October 28, 1913. Page 1. ---- Nanaimo, Oct. 28 - While only a small proportion of the union miners in the Nanaimo district arrested for rioting in August have as yet been tried, the sentences have created great indignation among the labor men of Vancouver, and arrangements labor leaders state, are being made to hold a mass meeting to protest against the sentences which have been passed on union leaders by Judge Howay. A petition, it is said is also being prepared to be forwarded to the minister of justice at Ottawa, Hon. C. J. Doherty, asking that he take into consideration the facts of the various cases and whether either pardon or more lenient sentences should be given.

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"CHINESE LOTTERY KEEPER IS JAILED," Victoria Daily Times. December 15, 1913. Page 15. ---- Wong Sent to Hard Labor for a Month for Persistent Law-Breaking ---- One month in jail was what Wong got this morning as a reminder to himself and other Chinese that it is illegal to run a Chinese lottery, no matter how many white men may be ready to venture their money in the game, in which the yellow men always come out ahead.

Late on Saturday evening Detective Sergeant O'Leary, and Detectives Heather and Macdonald, paid a visit to the premises at 522 Cormorant street, armed with a warrant. As they start- ed to cross the street from the south side to the north a Chinese who was evidently on the watch, went to the door of 522, and said something, after which he walked rapidly up the street. Detective Heather went round to the rear, Detective Macdonald tried a side way, and Sergeant O'Leary waited at the front door when he found that it was locked against him. From that position he was able to see through the glass the commotion that ensued when Heather broke in the rear door, and to Intercept the occupants of the place when they made a break for the front door and opened it.

Inside were found five white men and one Chinese in addition to Wong, who has been in charge of the place for some time, as an agent, he says. It is the old story "the boss he gone China; no back for long time." There was a large sheet of paper on the wall giving the time table of the drawings of the various lotteries which were supposed to take place in Montreal, in China, in England, in Tonkin, in Sunchong and in other places. There was the usual paraphernalia for the carrying on of the game, and besides this in a back room there was a baize-covered table with a convenient pack of cards for those who preferred black jack.

The Chinese frequenter, Gong, was found sitting in a middle room, attempting to read a book in the dark. One of the whites was hidden behind a door, and the others had broken for the front, where they were held in check by Macdonald while the house was searched and the patrol, wagon was sent for. In the small room which Wong admitted was his, was found a button which manipulated the lock of the front door.

When he was put in the box by J. H. Austin, Wong in cross-examination by City Prosecutor Harrison had to own up to being the person who was in charge, but he denied that there had been any gambling of late. Those found there were simply calling on him? He also had to admit that when he worked - which he said was not for a week - his employment was as agent for a firm running a game, and that he had for a long time been engaged in such occupation.

Upon this coming out Mr. Austin at once put in a plea of guilty, and explained that this had not been disclosed to him by his client.

Gong and the five white men found in the house charged with being unlawfully in a gaming place, were fined $15 each. His worship gave the white men a lecture on the folly of trying to beat the Chinese at their own game, and the lack of self-respect shown in frequenting such a place.

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"STIFF SENTENCES PASSED UPON NANAIMO RIOTERS," Cobalt Daily Nugget. October 24, 1913. Page 1. --- Five Get Two Years in Penitentiary… 23 Get a Year's Imprisonment ---- (By Canadian Press). VANCOUVER, Oct. 24. - Judge Howey passed sentence on more than two score Nanaimo rioters. The maximum sentence was two years. Many union officers will spend the next year in jail. Three men and two of boys were sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary, 23 were given imprisonment for one year, and fined $100 each; and 11 were sent to jail for three months, and will have to pay a fine of $50 each. All the sentences will date from the time of arrest. Those sentenced to serve two years are J. J. Taylor, vice-president of the British Columbia Federation of Labor, and vice-president of the Ladysmith Local United Mine Workers of America; Samuel Guthrie, president of the Ladysmith Local United Mine Workers of America, Paul Heaconink, a leader, and two boys, John Morgan, son of a prominent mine foreman, who was also given a jail term and William Simpson, jun., son of a mine contractor.

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"PLANS FOR THE NEW PROVINCIAL JAIL," Victory Daily Colonist. November 10, 1912. Page 16. ---- Most Modern Features of Penal Institutions Embodied in Designs Building Soon to Be Commenced ---- PACADE OF THE NEW PROVINCIAL JAIL TO BE ERECTED ON WILKERSON ROAD

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“Jail Two Ships' Firemen,” Toronto Star. April 10, 1942. Page 38. ---- Victoria, April 10 - (CP) - Patrick O'Brynne and F. Roma, firemen on the dominion government hydrographic survey ship William J. Stewart, were sentenced to four months in jail on a charge of refusing to sail with their ship up the west coast of Vancouver Island March 27. They refused to sail unless they were granted a war bonus.

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“The Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz opened its doors to British Columbia's "male criminal insane” inmates on 25 March 1919. Situated on farmland 10 kilometres northwest of Victoria, the institution's physical plant was the creation of local architect Colonel William Ridgway Wilson (1863-1957). Workers constructed the central building during 1912 and 1913 out of red brick, terra cotta, and reinforced concrete in "high Victorian Gothic revival style" at a cost of $240,000. Originally comprising 144 steel-barred cells arranged in two wings of four and two tiers apiece, Colquitz operated from 1914 to 1917 as the Saanich Prison Farm, then for the duration of World War I as a detention facility for prisoners of war and military offenders under the Naval Discipline Act. Following two years of agricultural use (as a pheasant farm), the grounds fell under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Secretariat and in 1919 became the second establishment for "criminal lunatics" in Canadian history. Over the first decade of its operation, the main structure's east wing was converted into two large dormitories (the Top East and Lower East Wards), while the West Ward remained a cell block accommodating refractory inmates. With the 1929 transfer of 20 resident employees to a Staff House the Colquitz patient population reached a capacity of about 285, which remained relatively stable until the facility began to depopulate prior to its decommissioning and reassignment to the British Columbia Corrections Branch in early 1964. A total of 778 men entered the Colquitz Mental Home from the province's courts, prisons, and hospitals during its 46 years of existence The building became a heritage site in 1979 and underwent extensive renovations in the mid-1980s. It continues to function as the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (better known as the Wilkinson Road Jail).

Colquitz was one component of an immense provincial psychiatric enterprise that had its origins in the Victoria Lunatic Asylum (1872-78), and rapidly expanded with the opening of New Westminster's Public Hospital for the Insane (PHI) in 1878, followed by the inauguration of the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale, in Coquitlam on 1 April 1913. Along with various satellite institutions operating at different times in Vemon, Terrace, Kamloops, and the Lower Mainland, the PHI, Essondale, and Colquitz were the three flagships of British Columbia's mental health apparatus for the better part of five decades. Between 1872 and Colquitz's closure in 1964, 68,430 people passed through the doors of these establishment.

Farrant was a former psychiatric patient himself. Shortly after he had arrive& in late 1898, from his home in Essex, England at the age of 21, police found Farrant drifting through the bush near Nelson, British Columbia. Physicians certified him to the Public Hospital for the Insane (PHI) in New Westminster, where he spent nearly three months in detention with a diagnosis of melancholia. The experience evidently had an enduring effect. Following his discharge in 1899, Farrant entered the provincial mental health service as an employee, working under Medical Superintendents G. F. Bodington, G. H. Manchester, and C. E. Doherty. With the exception of one brief stint with the New Westminster Club, Farrant rose systematically through the asylum ranks from under-attendant to supervisor of the branch asylum at Vernon to assistant bursar at the Provincial Mental Hospital at Essondale. Upon their both returning from overseas service after World War I, Superintendent Doherty appointed Farrant to the newly created position of Colquitz Supervisor. Farrant held the post until his death from complications of diabetes on 6 November 1933.

While he possessed no medical credentials and was formally subordinate to officials in Victoria and psychiatric authorities on the mainland, Farrant was nonetheless a dominant force in the organizational life of the Colquitz Mental Home. Residing on the property and responsible for both administration and security, he was ubiquitous in virtually every facet of the facility's operation:

It was Farrant who oversaw the maintenance of the building and surrounding grounds and farmland, who hired and fired attendants, who assigned patients to dormitories and "rooms," who determined work assignments, who controlled the regulatory system of rewards and sanctions, who received visitors and corresponded with outsiders, and who generally represented the institution and fashioned its external image and internal regimen.

The operation of Colquitz during these early years was both a reflection of contemporary preoccupations about mental disorder and criminality, and a projection of Farrant's own indomitable personality. Farrant and the senior medical staff considered Colquitz a prototypical facility, which simultaneously could service a specialized clientele of male "criminal insane" and other "difficult" inmates, and relieve the grave overcrowding that forever plagued the mainland institution. Moreover, it would represent the highest ideals of moral management and modern science. However disordered and dangerous, all patients would benefit from the wisdom and benevolence of their overseers in a context where "no arms are permitted to be carried.. . and kindness takes the place of force."

There is little doubt about Farrant's sincerity of conviction. As his 1923 New Year message to Medical Superintendent Harold Chapman Steeves intoned, 

"we will carry on in the same indefatigable way to promote the conditions of those who are less fortunate than us, who live in a world that is almost unknown to others except ourselves."

Five years later, his annual report was replete with the many benefits that he had bestowed during the prior 12 months upon the patient population: 

Ample amusements have been afforded the patients, we had a number of excellent concerts, given by our own orchestra, supplemented by outside talent, there were many friends of the Institution, who gladly rendered their services, to make these concerts a success. Films have been regularly screened during the Winter months. Radio has been installed in each Ward, which is tuned in daily, the building has been wired from the Main. Reading matter has been supplied by the Times Office, Salvation Army, Y.M.C.A. and others. The patients' spiritual welfare, has been cared for, by the Protestant and Catholic Churches also the Salvation Army.

Such affirmative images of Colquitz's philanthropic mission were also evident in various public depictions of the facility. In one such portrayal, entitled "Making Life Worthwhile for Insane. Humane Methods Lighten Suffering of World's Unfortunates," a tour of Colquitz inspired a local newspaper columnist to wax eloquent about the good works being undertaken by Farrant and his staff: 

Mr Farrant's secret of success in running a mental home might be sized up in two words--"congenial work." Where it is possible every patient is profitably employed in the grounds or in the main building and the result of their work is shown in thirty acres of well-kept grounds and farm lands, greenhouses, gardens, buildings and furniture. Every bit of the work the superintendent points out, with justifiable pride, has been done by the labor of the patients. . . . Instead of looking upon those under his charge as men who have been sent to him because of some insane tendency [and] should not be free to take their place in the word as ordinary citizens, he looks upon them as men to be put to work under conditions as much like those of outside workers as possible." 

As I argue..., however, Granby Farrant's rendition of life in his I establishment represented only one of many alternative versions of institutional reality. For a multitude of medico-legal, administrative, philosophical, and personal reasons, discourse and practice did not always coincide in the everyday operation of the Colquitz Mental Home. The interplay of power and resistance within the institutional walls generated a far more complex milieu than these positive accounts would allow. In what follows I enlist the clinical and organizational records to penetrate beyond these public representations. I attempt to assemble a portrait of Colquitz that reflects not only the perspective of Farrant and other authorities, but also the rich and poignant experience of those many men who inhabited the dormitories, wards and cells of this imposing structure.”    

- Robert Menzies, “"I Do Not Care for a Lunatic’s Role": Modes of Regulation and Resistance Inside the Colquitz Mental Home, British Columbia, 1919-33.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. Volume 16: 1999. pp. 185-186