Mental Health Policy

MENTAL HEALTH POLICY in BC up to the 1970s was concerned almost exclusively with mental hospitals. The first institution in the province to be used for the mentally ill was Royal Hospital in VICTORIA; the facility was taken over by the provincial government in 1872 and renamed the Provincial Lunatic Asylum. Its inmates were moved to the new Provincial Asylum for the Insane (see WOODLANDS) when it opened in NEW WESTMINSTER in 1878. A hospital at Essondale, now RIVERVIEW, opened in 1913 and...

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