Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale

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Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale

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Dates of existence

1913-1965

History

In 1904, 1000 acres in Coquitlam were set aside for a new mental hospital. In 1913 construction completed and Essondale opened. The first building is originally referred to as the Hospital for the Mind, and later renamed the Male Chronic Building. All male patients at the Public Hospital for the Insane in New Westminster were transferred here in 1913. This building was renamed West Lawn in 1950.

Many different facilities operated on the Essondale site. Some events of note include:

1920: Boy’s Industrial School opens
1924: Essondale’s Acute Psychopathy Unit opens, later renamed Centre Lawn
1930: Female Chronic Unit opens, later renamed East Lawn
1934 : Veteran’s Unit opens
1936: Coquitlam Home for the Aged opens in Boys Industrial School building.
1949: Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine opens in a new wing of the Veteran’s Unit
1950: British Columbia Mental Health Service was formally established and various mental health activities were amalgamated including Woodlands School, Colquitz, Essondale, Crease clinic and the Home for the Aged (in Coquitlam, Vernon and Terrace).
1955: Essondale’s peak population of 4,726 patients and about 2,200 staff.
1955: Tuberculosis unit opens, later renamed North Lawn
1959: Home for the Aged Coquitlam is renamed Valleyview Hospital

On April 1, 1965 the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale united with the Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine, Essondale to form Riverview Hospital, Essondale

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Riverview Hospital, Essondale (1965-2012)

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8581

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Riverview Hospital, Essondale

is the successor of

Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale

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8458

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Revised PW/KH 2017-02-28
Revised: RMCRORY 2022-06-08

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