CREEPY ABANDONED RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL ! WARNING THIS BUILDING IS ALARMED } in 2022.

n 1876, Royal Hospital in Victoria was converted to British Columbia's first facility to house mentally ill patients. Due to crowding, Royal Hospital was closed and the patients moved to the new Provincial Asylum for the Insane in 1878. Again facing problems of overcrowding at the turn of the century, in 1904 the provincial government purchased 1,000 acres (400 ha) in then-rural Coquitlam for the construction of Riverview Hospital and the adjacent Colony Farm lands. Construction of a temporary “Hospital for the Mind” was started at the Riverview property in 1909.
In 1911 British Columbia's first Provincial Botanist, John Davidson, established an arboretum, nursery and a botanical garden on the hospital lands, often with the assistance of patients as there was a belief in the therapeutic value.[5] The botanical garden was moved to the new University of British Columbia in 1916, but the arboretum and nursery remained.[6]
In 1913 a permanent Provincial mental hospital, administered by Dr. Henry Esson Young was opened, treating about 300 seriously mentally-ill male patients. The building was originally constructed to hold 480 patients, but by the end of the year it housed 919.[7] By this time, Colony Farm was producing over 700 tons of crops and 20,000 gallons of milk in a year, using mostly patient labour. In 1950, the Male Chronic building is renamed West Lawn, the Female Chronic building East Lawn and the Acute Psychopathic Unit becomes Centre Lawn. The hospital itself is now called the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale. In 1983 the West Lawn building was closed. In 1984, 141 ares of Riverview’s upper hillside were sold, subdivided and developed as the Riverview Heights subdivision with 250 single family homes and the remaining Riverview forest acquired by the city of Coquitlam.
iverview Hospital was a Canadian mental health facility located in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It operated under the governance of BC Mental Health & Addiction Services when it closed in July 2012.

[@siusaidhchaimbeul5499]

Go through there frequently on the bus. A beautiful piece of land.

[@pahaorly]

Awesome. Desire to be there since 2011. At last in Canada. So soon…

[@mateoesquivel1236]

For grave encuentrs I am Lance Preston

[@liztowers2058]

i love riverview, i have many EVPS and strange photos from there.

[@West__Coast__Joyride]

oh cool ,,,awesome ,,i want to again,ghost tool,,u wantr with me

[@michaelb9529]

If you had of looked more you would have found the cemetery