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Riverview Hospital was a Canadian mental health facility located in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It operated under the governance of BC Mental Health & Addiction Services until it closed, in July 2012. [ 2 ]
Jan 25, 2011 · Discover Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia: Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Dec 1, 2020 · 40 years ago the decision was made to close a Coquitlam psychiatric hospital known as Riverview. The site, which once held thousands of people would become empty. It’s a decision that would have...
Dec 17, 2014 · Located near the junction of the Fraser and Coquitlam rivers, it was believed the natural setting would help in the therapeutic treatment of patients. By 1913 the first permanent ward, the Male...
Nov 30, 2020 · More than 100 years ago a new “progressive” psychiatric hospital opened in Coquitlam. Ashley Burr takes a look at the long and difficult history of Riverview Hospital.
Mar 28, 2023 · Overlooking the Coquitlam River, the psychiatric institution still widely known as Riverview was established to treat British Columbians with the most severe mental illnesses in a relaxing...
Jul 21, 2012 · Parts of Port Coquitlam’s Riverview Hospital have been closed for several years, but the remaining patients are leaving this year, marking the end of a facility that first opened almost 100...
