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The need for an asylum was not recognized until the 1830s and then, temporary quarters in condemned or outdated buildings, such as prisons or cholera fever hospitals. The first purpose-built asylums were the New Brunswick Lunatic Asylum in 1847 (?) and the Toronto Lunatic Asylum in 1850. In French Canada, facilities started much earlier.
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Originally Provincial Lunatic Asylum, it was renamed Asylum for the Insane in 1871, Hospital for the Insane in 1905, and simply Ontario Hospital, Toronto as of 1919. In 1996, it became Queen Street Mental Health Centre and finally, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in 1998. Today's CAMH was formed from the merger of the Queen Street ...
It took place from approximately 1800 to 1960. The Asylum Project began with high hopes and promises and ended with empty buildings, and people back on the street, or in the bush in Western Canada. It started out with architectural optimism, but practitioners, critics, educators, and historians of architecture have been silent about its sad ...
May 14, 2014 · Asylums, for Foucault, were largely tools of social control, an argument that was effectively applied to mental illness more generally. Writing at the same time was Erving Goffman (1922-1983), a ...
Dec 1, 2016 · The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn, the last asylum built in the Victorian style in the British Commonwealth, was the first to shut its doors, which it did dramatically in 1963. Others closed in stages, emptying wings and transitioning into outpatient care facilities or, as was the case in Alberta, repurposing the buildings for brain injured patients requiring shorter-term stays.
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The Kingston psychiatric hospital was opened in 1856. Aerial view of the Kingston Asylum, [ca. 1919-1920] McCarthy Aero Services fonds. Reference Code: C 285-1-0-0-332. Archives of Ontario, I0010254. The sketch to the right shows that the Kingston psychiatric hospital was spread over 162 1/2 acres of which 83 1/2 were under cultivation.
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Apr 1, 1998 · The evolution of the psychiatric institution in Canada as the primary method of care is presented from an historical perspective. A province-by-province review of provisions for mentally ill people prior to asylum construction reveals that humanitarian motives and a growing sensitivity to social and medical problems gave rise to institutional psychiatry.
