"Chehalis camp for convicts," The Province (Vancouver). January 2, 1975. Page 11. --- A third minimum security forestry camp for the Lower Mainland will be opened in the Chehalis Valley, three miles north of Harrison Mills, by the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
The Chehalis camp, like others at Agassiz and Mission, will give federal inmates a chance to acquire vocational skills and develop the area for recreation facilities and parks. They will also plant trees and fight forest fires.
Norman Baker, the service's forestry camp program director, said he hopes to have 50 inmates in the new camp by May.
Baker said the camp will have a staff of about 25 and will provide an annual payroll of $264,000 for the area.
A fourth camp will be set up later near Jones Lake and the Squamish and Nahatlatch valleys are now being considered as the site for a fifth camp.