Bisco

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An acronym for: [Boys Industrial School Coquitlam], sometimes also spelled as Biscoq. Located in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

The Delinquent boys lived on the northern end of the [Essondale Hospital] property, which later became [Riverview Hospital] from 1922 to 1954, when they were re-located to [Brannan Lake], which is named after John Brannen,(note the miss-spelling), near Nanaimo, British Columbia. Four of the original Tudor-style cottages built in 1920-2 still survive, but are unused today(2008)