Links to many blogs, and information about the many groups that use the Riverview Hospital site in one way or another. Fraser Health, also operates three buildings on the property: Connolly Lodge - Cottonwood Lodge - Cypress Lodge
Return to Cottages chapter --- Return to the MAP or go to the HOME page BAKERY --- RIVERVIEW BOILERHOUSE - ESSONDALE BOILERHOUSE Last building to close in 2012. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) Check out the CENTRE LAWN blog, for more information, especially the historical aspects. A set of photographs of Centre Lawn at Flickr Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map Shut down in 1986. Was used for a while by the movie industry. The oldest building on the site at this time. View a photo set of West Lawn at Flickr . Check out the WEST LAWN blog, for more information, especially the historical aspects. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map HEY BUILDING HENRY ESSON YOUNG building - Nurses # 11 1957 Closed in 2012. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ). A set of photographs of the Hey building at Flickr Check out the HENRY ESSON YOUNG building blog, for more information. Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map PENN HALL PENNINGTON HALL 1951 . Check out the PENN HALL blog, for more information. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ). Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map CREASE CLINIC CREASE CLINIC FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE 1930-4 1949 addition Now used extensively by the movie industry. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) Check out the CREASE CLINIC blog, for more information, especially the historical aspects. Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map EAST LAWN FEMALE CHRONIC BUILDING 1930 Shut down in 2006. Now primarily used by the movie industry. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) Check out the EAST LAWN blog, for more information, especially the historical aspects. A set of photographs of East Lawn at Flickr Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map NORTH LAWN TUBERCULOSIS UNIT 1955 Shut down in 2007. Now abandoned. In 2013 being used by the movie industry, who painted portions of the front. Check out the NORTH LAWN blog, for more information, especially the historical aspects. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map The Bakery now sits abandoned. The largest part of it is constructed of cinder blocks. These buildings have seen many changes through their years. You can clearly see at least three alterations in the first image on the right.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map RIVERVIEW BOILERHOUSE - ESSONDALE BOILERHOUSE 1924-1925 The blue panel and glass structure was built in 1971, when the conversion from coal to gas/ oil firing occurred. The WSI operations people have moved into this building from their previous home in unit 5 (X and Y) building Apparently, Ken Varma 604-482-7002 Cell: 604-315-5227 ken.varma@wsi.brookfieldjci.com is the contact person. According to this WSI Operations Centre PDF information directory
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Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map STATION HOUSE - FIRE HALL 1930-1931 ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
North Lawn in the background Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map CENTRAL SUPPLY & SERVICES - LAUNDRY & STORES 1951
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE 1961 Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map GROUNDS MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT BUILDING 1935 Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION - ESSONDALE NURSES' HOME #1 1928-1930 For more information go to the nursesresidences blogspot ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map FERNWOOD LODGE - NURSES’ HOME #2 1937 AKA " Cinder Hill " Today it is used by numerous community groups, some are listed here; For more information go to the nursesresidences blogspot ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
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Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map CREDIT UNION BUILDING - TELEPHONE - CREDIT UNION 1960-1961
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map This is one of the small complex of buildings associated with the Transport department. Built at various times.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map ROADSIDE - NURSES' RESIDENCE # 6 1948 Today it is used by the Dentistry department, and as offices for grounds security, which today is contracted out to Paladin Security.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map LEESIDE - NURSES' RESIDENCE #7 1948 Used as a patient residence. Visit the Brookside-Leeside-Roadside blog, for more information. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) The B.C. Sheriffs Service has been using Leeside, since their fenced parking compound, was created from the parking lot, between Leeside, and Brookside.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map BROOKSIDE - NURSES' RESIDENCE #8 1948 Still used as a patient residence. Visit the Brookside-Leeside-Roadside blog, for more information. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map INDUSTRIAL SERVICES - INDUSTRIAL THERAPY 1962-1963 This building contained numerous departments, including; the Apparel Shop, Carpentry Shop, Emergency Operations Centre(EOS), Central Sterile Supply Department(CSSD), The Riverview Museum, Hairdressing, Art Therapy, Pharmacy.... A set of pictures of the Industrial therapy building at Flickr
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map Distribution Centre - Pharmacy 1963 Today this building A separate volunteer organization that is associated with Rotary International, operates from the beasement of this building, known as Rotary World Help they gather up medical equipment and supplies and ship them in containers around the World to the needy. B.C. Ambulance Services Station 259 is also based out of this building; they are using the portion on the far right, at the back of the building in the photo.
Entrance to the SPARC museum is to the right, under the covered area. Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map FORENSIC ACTIVITY BUILDING unknown date Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map SEWAGE PUMPING STATION - " House of Howard " 1991
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Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map This is for the emergency use of the boiler House, in case the natural gas supply is interrupted.
The little cinder block shed-like building on the far right.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map Located in the Serenity Garden. It is usually locked, because of vandalism concerns.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map Now used as a day care centre: Kids Cottage Day Care
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map UNIT 5 (X and Y) - 100 BED HOME FOR AGED 1945-1946 Was used by WSI, who maintain the Riverview property among others, for the Province; they have now moved into the boiler house
Today it is used by the: Ministry of Children and Family Development Share Community and Family Services Children and Family development programs
Visit the Home for the Aged-Valleyview blog, for more information.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map UNIT 6 (X and Y) - 100 BED HOME FOR AGED 1945-1946 Tri-Cities Home Health , which is a division of Fraser Health use this building today. Their mailing address...#6-2601 Lougheed Hwy. Coquitlam, BC V3C 4J2 Phone: 604-777-7300 Fax: 604-777-7302 ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
Visit the Home for the Aged-Valleyview blog, for more information.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map UNIT 8 (X&Y) - 100 BED HOME FOR AGED 1952 Is not used for Hospital use anymore. But the Police and Fire departments, use it for honing their skills.
Visit the Home for the Aged-Valleyview blog, for more information. Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map ELECTRICITY RECEIVING STATION 1957 One of the main electric feeder stations for the grounds. Most of the wires are underground at Riverview, which noticeably reduces the visual impacts, of overhead wires.
Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map A tiny little building, used to store the equipment used to inter people in the Cemetery.
Cemetery shed Return to Service buildings chapter or Return to Map The Cemetery is divided into different sections for the differing theologies.
Pauline Verral; Hospital Health Records. Stated that the first recorded burial in the Riverview cemetery is dated January 10, 1958. One of the most recent burials was the "Jane Doe" skeleton that was used a teaching aid, Some families took care of funeral arrangements while those that did not have any family or family burial plots were buried by the Provincial Government in unmarked graves in the City of New Westminster's public cemetery; Fraser Cemetery, on 100 Richmond St. from around 1908 to early 1920. Find a grave in: Fraser Cemetery New Westminster ( 1869- ) St. Peters Cemetery, New Westminster. Catholic ( 1880's- ) Schara Tzedeck, New Westminster. Jewish cemetery (1920's-) Masonic Cemetery Association of British Columbia, Burnaby Cemetery Genealogy & Bowell Funeral Home records database for New Westminster From late 1920 to c.1958 many of Essondale Hospital's (today's Riverview Hospital) patients were interred at the Woodlands Cemetery in New Westminster Some history of Woodlands Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby (1919 to the present ) Find-a-Grave (very incomplete) Ocean View Burial Park official website ( no online listing of internments though ) Forest Lawn Memorial Park (1936 to the present ) Find-a-Grave (very incomplete) Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burnaby official website ( no online listing of internments though ) There may be some patients who were buried in the Cemetery on Robinson Ave in Coquitlam. Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery. Search for Names North Vancouver Cemetery (since 1907, searchable map) Port Coquitlam cemetery (searchable names and location, opens in their IMap application) NAME search for people in Surrey's three municipal cemeteries. Cemetery's in Surrey listing List of deaths for 1919 A Word document file, created from the BC Archives and the Hospital Annual Report for 1920 B.C. Archives Search the genealogy section of the British Columbia Archives The B.C. Archives recently added a genealogy part to the vital statistics pages, images of the original documents are included in many searches" Here is a search using the term Essondale over 9,000 hits. A few pictures of the cemetery in Panoramio: ONE — TWO — THREE
Return to Service buildings chapter --- Return to Map or go to the Home page GROUNDS MAINTENANCE STORAGE YARD
But on May 5,1955 a fire broke out with almost total destruction. The loss was great, and the industrial therapy departments, were distributed around the grounds in any unused space that they could find. The only one building on this site, still survives from before the fire, and that is a garage, ca. 192?. The building was eventually replaced when the Industrial Services building was built in 1961. Return to Service buildings chapter --- Return to Map or go to the Home page 103 --- 104 --- 105 --- 106 --- 107 --- 108 Return to the MAP or go to the HOME page Henry Whittaker, Supervising Architect Public Works Department 1914-1930 There are also a number of individual residences on the Riverview site, which were built to house administrative and working staff. The surviving staff residences are mainly clustered in three groupings; there are also some interesting landscape features that exist in conjunction with these houses. Mini-Care Unit #103: (B21790) Medical Officer's Residence, 1924
A two storey stucco-faced residence, with a hip roof, central chimney, multi-paned windows, and a projecting front Day. In good condition; currently used by Forensic Services.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Mini-Care Unit #104: (B21808) Medical Officer's Residence, 1930 A two storey residence, with a central offset entry porch, and a hip roof. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Mini-Care Unit #105: (B21816) Medical Officer's Residence, 1926 A two storey stucco-faced residence, with a side entry porch, a hip roof, multi-paned windows, and a projecting front bay. In good condition; currently used by Forensic Services. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) More pictures of Cottage 105 can be seen at Flickr.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 106: (B21881) Farm Superintendents Residence - Nurses #4 1918 A one and one-half storey stucco-faced residence, with an inset side entry porch, side jerkhin-headed roof, and a jerkhin-headed dormer.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 107: (B21899) Residence - Nurses # 3 Circa 1920 A two storey stucco-faced residence, symmetrically massed, with a central entry porch, and a hip roof.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 108: (B21873) Chauffeur's Residence, Circa 1927 A two storey stucco-faced residence, symmetrically massed, with an inset side entry porch, multi-paned windows, central chimney, and a hip roof. In good condition; was used by the Patient Sexuality Program. Now used by Coast Cottages, for forensic patients. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 109: (B21907) Residence - Nurses #5 Circa 1914-1915 A one and one-half storey stucco-faced residence, with a full open front verandah, side gable roof, central entry, and paired semi-octagonal front hip dormers.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 110: (B21915) Chief Steward's Residence, Boys' School, Circa 1922 A two storey stucco-faced residence, symmetrically massed, with an offset entry porch, multi-paned windows, and a hip roof. In good condition; was used by the Personal Independence Program, today Coast Cottages, for forensic patients. Built originally for the head of the Boys Industrial School of Coquitlam, ( BISCO )
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 111: (B21923) Official's Residence, 1922 A one and one-half storey stucco-faced residence, with an offset side entry porch with shed roof over, multi-paned windows, a side gable roof, and front and rear jerkhin-headed projections. In good condition. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) Was used by the Mental Health Law Program. In 2007 it was being used by Coast Mental Health, for Forensic patients.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 112: (B21931) Official's Residence, Circa 1922 A one and one-half storey stucco-faced residence, with a full open front verandah, square columns, side gable roof, offset entry, hip front dormer, and rear hip wall dormer. In good condition; was used by Occupational Therapy: The Green Door. Today used by Coast cottages, for forensic patients.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 113: (B21949) Official's Residence, Circa 1922 A one and one-half storey stucco-faced residence, with a hip roof, central chimney, multi-paned windows, and projecting front bay. In good condition; was used by Legal Aid; today used by Coast Cottages, for forensic patients. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) More pictures of Cottage 113 can be seen at Flickr.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 114: (B22228) residence 1940 ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) More pictures of Cottage 114 can be seen at Flickr.
Cottage 115: (B21964) Employees residence 1919-20 ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) More pictures of Cottage 115 can be seen at Flickr.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 116: (B21972) Employee's Residence, 1919-1920 A one storey Craftsman Bungalow, with a side gable roof and a projecting front gable. There is an inset entry porch with a shallow arched opening, lapped wooden siding, triangular eave brackets, and half-timbering in the gable end. The plans were signed by Henry Whittaker as Acting Supervising Architect, but drawn and traced by "HJRC", assumed to be H.J. Rous Cullin, a prominent Victoria architect who maintained his own practice before the First World War. This is one of four identical bungalows built to this plan that still exist; one of the four was built in reverse, as a mirror-image building. In good condition; was used by West Coast Clinical Research. Empty in 2014. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF ) More pictures of Cottage 116 can be seen at Flickr.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 118: (B21998) Employees Residence, 1919-1920 A bungalow identical to Cottage #116. In good condition; was used as the Chairperson P.E.S. residence. Empty, used by movie industry.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 119: (B22004) Employees Residence, 1919-1920 A bungalow identical to Cottage 116, but in reverse. In good condition; was used as Hawthorne Lodge, a residence for out-of-town family members.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 120: (B22012) Employees Residence, 1919-1920 A one storey Craftsman Bungalow, with a side gable roof and a projecting front gable. There is a shed-roofed entry porch with square columns, lapped wooden siding, and half-timbering in the gable end. The plans were signed by Henry Whittaker as Acting Supervising Architect. In good condition; currently used by the Duty Doctor.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 121: (B22020) Employees Residence, 1919-1920 A bungalow identical to Cottage 116. In good condition. Individual Residence. ( 2013 building condition assessment report, PDF )
Was used by the, New View Society as a drop in centre. In 2014 empty. More pictures of Cottage 121 can be seen at Flickr.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Cottage 122: Ambulance Station (B22343) Residence, 1923 A one storey Craftsman Bungalow, located at the extreme northern edge of the site, close by the cemetery. It features a side gable roof with front gable projections, an inset porch, and triangular eave brackets. In good condition; currently used by Ambulance Services.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Soccer-Baseball field: Soccer field, built for BISCO possibly mid 1920s. It had a bandstand in one corner at one time, and the upland area above was setup as a picnic area.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Serenity Garden: The Serenity Garden was built as part of the short-lived Horticultural Therapy program. Previously it was run from Finnie's Garden. It has two greenhouses, Storage shed and a washroom.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP PLANT NURSERY The Nursery was abandoned in 1977. Many of the larger trees and shrubs, were just left to grow wild.
Located in the area above the upper road, in this image. Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP ORCHARD The orchards were once quite extensive on the grounds, this one was apparently cut down when they decided to get out of farming, but a few survived and are relished by the wildlife, including the residents.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to MAP Male Nurses quarters: Today a compost pile. At one time the Male Nurses #10-building was here.
Return to Cottages chapter or Return to the MAP Finnie's Garden Started in 1951 as a garden project. Went into some neglect in later years, until concerned citizens decided to rehabilitate the garden, to bring back some of its former glory. A true sanctuary on the grounds for everybody. Click-able MAP of Finnies Garden. Finnie's Garden also has a: BLOG check it out. Return to Cottages chapter or Return to the MAP The Baseball field Not used for games anymore. Riverview Creek, borders the Baseball field, and it has had some rehabilitation done to it. Chum and Coho salmon do spawn in here.
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