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Minimum Security Prison in Alberta, Canada

Grierson Centre
Main building at the Grierson Centre.

Former names	Royal Canadian Mounted Police Building
Alternative names	Grierson Institution
General information
Type	Minimum Security Prison
Architectural style	Collegiate Gothic & Tudor Gothic
Location	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates	53°32′38″N 113°28′46″W / 53.54389°N 113.47944°W / 53.54389; -113.47944
Completed	1912 (Barrack Block) 1936 (Addition) 1957 (Addition)
Opened	1912 (RCMP) 1998; 27 years ago (1998) (Prison)
Closed	1975 (RCMP)
Cost	CA$70,000 (1912)
Client	Correctional Service Canada
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Roland Lines

The Grierson Centre, also known as Grierson Institution, is a minimum security prison and historic site in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The institution is operated by the Correctional Service of Canada.

The Grierson Centre originally served as the North-West Mounted Police's Divisional headquarters in Edmonton upon its completion in 1912. Prior to 1912, the detachment was stationed in Fort Saskatchewan for a period of 34 years before moving to the growing City of Edmonton. The barracks, as designed by architect Roland Lines, were completed at a cost of CA$70,000 and included stables and ten cells within the complex.

One of the buildings in the Grierson Centre, former RCMP Centre Building 3, was designated a Recognized Federal Heritage Building on January 17, 1985. The compound was expanded in 1936 and again in 1957 to meet the growing needs of the RCMP detachment. In 1975 the RCMP would vacate the site, and the property would fall into the use of Correctional Service of Canada.

References

"National facility directory". csc-scc.gc.ca. Correctional Service of Canada. 11 February 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office (5 July 1985). Building Evaluation Report: File No. 2.5.10 (PDF). Ottawa, Ontario: Government of Canada. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ "NWMP ED Barracks". Alberta Heritage Survey Program. Government of Alberta. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
Grierson Centre. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

External links

Grierson Centre. Canadian Register of Historic Places.

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