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Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Tuesday, August 16, 2011. DB Brankin in the news. DB Brankin's methods appear to have irritated a few bureaucrats while he was superintendent; here is one of a few that I have found:. The Vancouver Sun, January 23, 1922. CHANGE IN BOYS’ SCHOOL IS DENIED. Child welfare association takes action on rumour of removal of D.B. Brankin. Is the Provincial Government planning to supplant D.B. Brankin as head of the Boys' Industrial School? I have received an answer from the attorney-...
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West Lawn: December 2007
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Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Thursday, December 6, 2007. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). George Herbert Manchester passed away on Nov, 22, 1956 at the age of 83, in New Westminster, he left a legacy…. Two years earlier, Dr. Manchester had also pressed for provision of special accommodation for the criminally insane, thus this visionary advocated the creation of Riverview, Woodlands and the Forensic Services long before their geneses. Work was departmentalized and the "hospital" atmosphere:, heightened by us...
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West Lawn: May 2015
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Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Saturday, May 9, 2015. I was recently sent a commemorative album from the grand-daughter of Gilbert Mathewson. Who was head male nurse at Essondale from 1915-1936. Margaret Ann Simpson his wife added other mostly relevant photos to the album, some were removed by the grand-daughter before I received the booklet. But from what I have been told it is the only complete booklet known so far ( people may have others copies of it, and not know what it is ). Born May, 1865 France; ...
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West Lawn: 100 years !!!
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Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Saturday, March 30, 2013. West Lawn will be officially a 100 hundred years old, in April. Even though it was finished late in the previous year and already had residents, who also helped build it by the way. To bad that the power that be have let OUR public asset deteriorate to the degree that it has,certainly would not happen with the legislative buildings,( which are more poorly designed ). Riverview's West Lawn Building turns 100. West Lawn 1920 LINK. 1904 also marked the...
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Crease Clinic: June 2011
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Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine, opening 1949. The Vancouver sun, November 8, 1949. Crease Clinic to open November 16. Centre for Psychological Medicine newest venture at Essondale. Victoria, Nov.,8.- - British Columbia will launch its newest venture in treating mentally-ill people with the official opening of the Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine at Essondale, November 16. Newspaper ad, November 1950. Veterans Unit opening 1931. Tangib...
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Crease Clinic: New Westminster archives pictures of Crease
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Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Friday, August 2, 2013. New Westminster archives pictures of Crease. Here are three pictures all apparently in the Columbian Newspaper fonds at New Westminster Archives. All three appear to be taken on the same day, probably March 10, 1949 one of these photos also appears in the Hopitals Annual Reports. Mr and Mrs. Crease NW Archives. Dr Arthur Lionel Leonard Crease at his desk. NW Archives. Arthur and Florence Crease, probably inside the Crease Clinic. NW Archives. The Psyc...
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East Lawn - Female Chronic building: February 2014
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East Lawn - Female Chronic building. Home for the Aged-Valleyview. Monday, February 24, 2014. East Lawn in 2014. East Lawn is the largest building at Riverview, and has been closed to patients since 2005, since that time the movie industry has been the primary user of the building. Download a PDF version of a brochure from 2005. That tells a little of the history of the building. I have placed 35 old and newer images in a East Lawn set on Flickr. Probably more one day when I find the time. The company re...
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