 "BC Pen", or simply "the Pen", as it was known (and also in old days as the "skookum house" in the English-Chinook Jargon patois common in early BC), was located between the Sapperton neighbourhood and what is now Queen's Park.It housed maximum-security prisoners for the next 102 years, closing in 1980.The original centre block of the Pen still stands and has been converted into offices.