Rich Colemans visions for Riverview

Vancouver Sun articles: Riverview revamp grows in scope

Column: Riverview an unsettling trip down memory lane

Further research into the model hospital used....
Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum; Springfield Asylum; Springfield (Mental) Hospital
Location Map
Springfield Hospital Background
Springfield Hospital Regeneration programme

Homer Simpson & R.Coleman would get along well at Springfield.

Proposed Evergreen line articles

The Now;
Lots of questions on routes:
Town hall to cover Evergreen route:

Tri-City News;
Council has many Evergreen queries:
Riders from R'View?:
Letters; Readers weigh in on Evergreen decision:

New Westminster; Record:
Woodlands Restoration costs go from $1.6 to $36 mil

And for the historians among us, Internet Archive has recently received early BC magazine editions,(1907-1911) downloadable as PDF's and other formats, the site can be a bit slow, I find it runs best late at night.

Page 822 of the November 1912 edition has an article about Coquitlam, and a picture of West Lawn:

Riverview to be included Coquitlams Heritage Register

Regular Council Meeting Agenda - January 21, 2008
Report of General Manager Planning & Development
- Proposed Inclusion of Riverview in Coquitlam’s Community Heritage Register

Yeah, for all the hard work that Coquitlam council, staff and especially the volunteers put in years of time and effort into making this designation a reality.

Download the PDF document, that outlines why it should be included HERE.
Articles in the local Wednesday, January 23, 2008 newspapers. The NOW
And the, Tri-City News
The debates continue.....

FHA's shady investments

Some of you may wonder why, the proposed Fraser Health's Cypress Lodge is not already under construction on the Riverview site. This tri-cities news story may shed a little light on the subject.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/news/13720012.html

Makes you wonder what they were thinking investing in what anybody with any sense at all knew has been a problem area for many years now. This was OUR money! Cypress Lodge, was supposed to break ground in October,2007

To many visitors

The powers that be at Riverview, recently told the representatives from the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society, that to many people were visiting the Riverview grounds, and that they would have to cut back on their tree tours. The bureaucracy probably should have told that to Rich Coleman and his "Friends", before they proposed to develop the site. Somebody forgot to tell them that WE own the property, not a few bureaucrats. As usual hindering public access to the site, is contrary to the goals of the mental health mantra, to integrate "normal folks" with the "un-normal folks", back to the seventeenth century we go.......