tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34282831226969994622024-03-05T05:49:12.012-08:00West Lawnniftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-53132090185663806152018-05-13T13:36:00.001-07:002018-05-13T13:36:27.412-07:00Watercolour of Male Chronic buildingRecently found the image below online at the BC Archives, dated as circa 192's.<br />
Would have to be prior to 1923 as <a href="http://centre-lawn.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Centre Lawn</a> was starting to be built during the summer of 1923.<br />
Centre Lawn was built almost on top of the power house, which is visible in the painting, in the far right side; note also what appears to be a wagon, and above it a large pile of coal, which was used to power the boilers.<br />Interesting to also note the early plantings, depicted in this watercolour.<br />
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Essondale, Showing West Lawn, Formerly Male Chronic, First Permanent Building On The Hill At Essondale. <a href="http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/essondale-showing-west-lawn-formerly-male-chronic-first-permanent-building-on-hill-at-essondale" target="_blank">pdp00969_141</a> ca192- watercolourniftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-19527741553647434452015-05-09T22:38:00.000-07:002015-05-09T22:38:21.906-07:00Commemorative booklet I was recently sent a commemorative album from the grand-daughter of <a href="http://essondale.blogspot.ca/2015/04/gilbert-mathewson.html" target="_blank">Gilbert Mathewson</a>, 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 )<br />
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Created in 1912-1913 to remember the Male Chronic building, being opened; I was surprised that I have never seen a copy before, sadly not many items that relate to West Lawn's history have survived. one of the photographs of the reception room is also found in the 1912 Annual Report. A few of the others in the 1914 Annual Report.<br />
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So I have crudely scanned the document, <a href="https://archive.org/details/MathewsonAlbum" target="_blank">uploaded it to the Internet Archive</a>, for all to enjoy, and also I have placed the higher resolution scans online at Flickr into the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/niftyniall/sets/72157652510424221" target="_blank">Mathewson Album</a> <br />
I have donated the booklet to the Riverview Hospital Historical Society, where it will be well cared for.<br />
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It helped to finally put a name to the photographer who made the photographs contained within it, some of the photographs were also used in the Hospital Annual Reports, but no name credit was ever given.<br />
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<b>Paul Seligman </b>born May, 1865 France; married to Florence. In the 1911 Directories he was working with (Charles) Brown, Seligman & (Harvey S.) Brown at 440 Main street, Vancouver.<br />
Then in 1913-1914 had the <b>Western Studio</b> at 424 Main Street, Vancouver by himself it appears. . Disappears then Paul shows up in Bend, Oregon still doing photography at the <b>Bend Studio</b> in 1917.<br />
<br />niftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-70143534416005258732014-04-07T13:19:00.000-07:002015-05-09T22:43:35.882-07:00West Lawn in picturesI have recently uploaded many images from my collection into a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/niftyniall/sets/72157643596857873/" target="_blank">West Lawn photo set at Flickr</a>.<br />
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Also I have a few crude panoramic images of West Lawn that are being hosted by Panoramio:<br />
<a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/77758445" target="_blank">ONE</a> → <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/77758600" target="_blank">TWO</a> → <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/77758920" target="_blank">THREE</a> → <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/77852755" target="_blank">FOUR</a> → <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/87669295" target="_blank">FIVE</a><br />
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Below is a painting done, presumably by a patient named F.A. Yukao, and dated July 1933.<br />
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Nothing is known about the artist, and he or she has proven to be difficult to find any trace of in the easily accessible public records. Any information would be greatly appreciated about this person.<span style="font-size: large;"> ☺</span><br />
I have a feeling that this person was deported / repatriated which was common practice until recent times.niftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-68097158814485830012013-03-30T05:17:00.001-07:002013-11-30T04:32:17.891-08:00100 years !!!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 )<br />
<a href="http://www.thenownews.com/travel/Riverview+West+Lawn+Building+turns/8169168/story.html" target="_blank">Riverview's West Lawn Building turns 100</a><br />
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West Lawn 1920 <a href="http://cdm15935.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15935coll25/id/41" target="_blank">LINK</a> some of the early landscaping visible.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Westholme Lumber Company, built West Lawn.</span><br />
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Keenes Cement <span style="font-size: x-small;">advertisement 1915</span><br />
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Monarch Art Stone. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Advertisement 1914</span></div>
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The window sills were made by this company, they have held up well being over a century old!</div>
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<br />niftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-72440676606017807352010-01-11T22:44:00.000-08:002010-01-11T23:03:16.589-08:00Sol Cameron<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJYaqLQXvjboKnlnaQinRQDYcEVgKvG8SWuGTa1cx45rQKZM6T982qHLotZ9v-qIVJZuqYyQ0aVyAGMFMWRngqaNytrsPpbZleiP6X0NEhJhpbmudG0ZvEerTdndwRaC_NR_CxUs6R3Qp/s1600-h/northport-smelter.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJYaqLQXvjboKnlnaQinRQDYcEVgKvG8SWuGTa1cx45rQKZM6T982qHLotZ9v-qIVJZuqYyQ0aVyAGMFMWRngqaNytrsPpbZleiP6X0NEhJhpbmudG0ZvEerTdndwRaC_NR_CxUs6R3Qp/s400/northport-smelter.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425744326051809074" /></a><br\>Northport smelter<br\><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLk3lZickpPh94iK12P0d0XEku-sLD_mXRgLocms7h65orgss_MBNz-LCFbqenLqhUXkkwQuG4dqe-TIhB8Nlq5qWJN2CdYbsOTrPhQhgY2KjXdRNJBOwbTu_QqsBaKwwld-Z_U_jFCqpD/s1600-h/thompson-1895.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 341px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLk3lZickpPh94iK12P0d0XEku-sLD_mXRgLocms7h65orgss_MBNz-LCFbqenLqhUXkkwQuG4dqe-TIhB8Nlq5qWJN2CdYbsOTrPhQhgY2KjXdRNJBOwbTu_QqsBaKwwld-Z_U_jFCqpD/s400/thompson-1895.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425743791204752402" /></a> Thompson building 1895<br /><br />I have recently found out considerably more about Solomon Cameron,the contractor for West Lawn. Previous historians said that he came to BC from PEI, in 1902-3. How wrong they were, he actually was very actively building in Washington,Idaho and BC in the early 1890's. He actually built some of the first building at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_University">Washington State University</a> 1892-4, one is still standing the, Thompson building and has federal government heritage status and had over 23 million spent on it a number of years ago. He also built the Northport smelter, and numerous building in Spokane.<br />More to come as I wade through the numerous piles of information that I now have about him and find the time to edit it all. Cheersniftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-43367928471892974722008-12-19T16:03:00.000-08:002008-12-19T16:06:05.602-08:00West Lawn panorama photos 1915<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbzIa6zQaCiqr6u67hn3r-ZYnYAH6omLS0PbmkKhuj-DOxycXTEcCj9PAHJ-9OIPrmXiQm2cVcEomBnVVfaj8hFhqoNHeAUnmk5vIphkZabnPqWBY_CErS_GLEo0rxFqllCR7qtlBJoGE/s1600-h/A62221.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 69px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbzIa6zQaCiqr6u67hn3r-ZYnYAH6omLS0PbmkKhuj-DOxycXTEcCj9PAHJ-9OIPrmXiQm2cVcEomBnVVfaj8hFhqoNHeAUnmk5vIphkZabnPqWBY_CErS_GLEo0rxFqllCR7qtlBJoGE/s400/A62221.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281656799673307298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj112zh2ECfGJByrQLKKS7ID3F83ryPpGmuImosXQCq7xT-OB0WjfWmm3WZQvVd7hmkwHAh078b_9B120jW1PVoMHmUhD3siodwyulPKMpnMW8tBMnKukmm3A2h33t97TN4fNbtE3EQCVCl/s1600-h/A62220.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 101px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj112zh2ECfGJByrQLKKS7ID3F83ryPpGmuImosXQCq7xT-OB0WjfWmm3WZQvVd7hmkwHAh078b_9B120jW1PVoMHmUhD3siodwyulPKMpnMW8tBMnKukmm3A2h33t97TN4fNbtE3EQCVCl/s400/A62220.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281656463405201506" /></a><br/>niftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-91809946653965966912007-12-06T09:08:00.000-08:002007-12-06T09:15:24.194-08:00Breakin problemsThe buildings have been under continual assault by scroungers, pilfering the metals from especially West Lawn, so a few months ago, bars and screens were placed over many of the lower windows, but they left a few areas undone which were quickly found. So now they have cleared away some of the shrubbery, and finally almost completed the job of sealing the building from future attacks on its integrity. Hopefully in the coming years, new uses will be found for this stately building.niftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428283122696999462.post-75450471297310119332007-09-03T17:10:00.000-07:002007-09-03T17:14:37.685-07:00Names,names,namesAt first known as; "<span style="font-weight:bold;">The hospital for the mind at Mount Coquitlam</span>", It was renamed as <span style="font-weight:bold;">Essondale</span>, in 1913 after <span style="font-weight:bold;">Henry Esson Young</span>, then Provincial secretary. The site was then renamed as the "<span style="font-weight:bold;">Essondale Branch Hospital</span>". The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Male Chronic building</span>, was started in 1909, and opened for business on April 1st,1913 when 340 patients were transferred from New Westminster Asylum, by the years end there were 453 residents. It was renamed as <span style="font-weight:bold;">West Lawn</span> in 1950. It has not been used since 1983.niftyniallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16889079546931648669noreply@blogger.com1