Riverview Hospital: June 2008

Monday, June 9, 2008

June 2008

New mental health facility a return to institutional care
Homeless problem is too serious to ignore

Riverview Horticultural Centre Society,(RHCS), members receive Coquitlam's group Environmental award for 2008

A report: Regionalised tertiary psychiatric residential facilities (PDF) blah,blah,blah...

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Save the Riverview Hospital lands

The Riverview Hospital lands, are under pressure to be developed into market housing. Help to save the lands as a healing sanctuary for the mentally ill of OUR Province.

Please sign the On-line petition or download a Word document petition ,which is a more official type of petition.
Blogs, about the hospital grounds
Mike Farnworth,MLA; Facebook forum " Protect the Riverview Lands"
And another Facebook group: Riverview Preservation Society
this group also has a petition to sign.
Click-able Map of the Riverview site
BISCO -- Brookside-Leeside-Roadside -- Centre Lawn -- Colony Farm
Crease Clinic -- East Lawn -- Essondale Hospital
Finnie's Garden -- Henry Esson Young -- Hillside unit
Home for the Aged-Valleyview -- North Lawn
Pennington Hall -- TreeFest -- West Lawn
John Davidson; "Botany John" blog. He was the first Provincial Botanist, who created British Columbia's first Botanical Garden at Riverview.
Other groups involved Riverview Horticultural Centre Society
Who also have a media NEWS Blog
Crawford Kilian's Save Riverview Blog
You can also download a 42 page report titled, For the future of Riverview created by the Riverview Task Force.
Or Burke Mountain Naturalists, report: The Riverview Hospital Site, Respecting its Past,Realizing its Future
Coquitlam has designated the buildings and grounds, as a heritage site. Download the Statement of Significance; SoS report PDF

Save Riverview Hospital Group discussion to join: Send E-Mail
This group will circulate information by E-mail, and the home page will contain down loadable files, mostly concerned with the historical,social history of Riverview.
So you want to volunteer, at Riverview Hospital?. E-mail a note to: Peggy Chan the Volunteer coordinator; or phone: 604-524-7651