Identity area
Type of entity
Government
Authorized form of name
New Westminster Provincial Asylum
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Asylum for the Insane (New Westminster)
- British Columbia. Asylum for the Insane (New Westminster)
- New Westminster Provincial Asylum
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1878-1897
History
The New Westminster Provincial Asylum opened in 1878. That same year, the Asylum at Royal Hospital in Victoria closed and all patients were transferred to New Westminster. In 1897 the New Westminster Provincial Asylum was renamed the Public Hospital for the Insane (PHI), also referred to as the Provincial Hospital for the Insane.
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General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Public Hospital for the Insane (New Westminster) (1897-1950)
Identifier of related entity
2062
Category of relationship
temporal
Type of relationship
Public Hospital for the Insane (New Westminster)
is the successor of
New Westminster Provincial Asylum
Dates of relationship
Description of relationship
Access points area
Subject access points
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Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
14858
Institution identifier
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised: RMCRORY 2022-06-08
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Sources
Catalog Cards
Records from GR-3929