Riverview's History

• Mental Health Policies: Historical Overview, 11-page PDF. Legislative Library of British Columbia, 2008.

• BC Mental Health Timeline 
• East Lawn Commemorative Booklet
• North Lawn Commemorative Booklet

• Photographs of Essondale. BC Explorers

• Asylum. In this video nurse Norma McMurdo recollects working at Riverview from 1949-1951

About the lands and trees: 

• The Riverview Hospital Site: Respecting its Past, Realizing its Future. 29-page PDF. The Burke Mountain Naturalists
• Riverview Horticultural Centre Society
• Riverview Lands. ARES owns and operates the lands on behalf of the government. This section of their website provides some information on the Riverview grounds, including the tree collection and streams
• youtube.com: search for Finnie's Garden

City of Coquitlam:

• Statement of Significance, 2008. 17-page PDF
• For the Future of Riverview, 2003. 22-page PDF 
• Riverview Hospital Lands 
• Riverview Advisory Committee 

Other resources:

• Lesage A, Groden D, Goldner EM, Gelinas D, Arnold LM. Regionalised tertiary psychiatric residential facilities. Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc. 2008 Jan-Mar;17(1):38-46.
• Berland A. Modernizing mental health services: mission impossible? Administration & Policy in Mental Health. 2003 Jan;30(3):219-29.
• BC Ombudsman. Listening: A Review of Riverview Hospital, 222-page PDF. 1994
• Berland A. Mental health reform in British Columbia. Administration & Policy in Mental Health. 2001 Sep;29(1):89-93.
• BC Ministry of Health. Revitalizing and Rebalancing British Columbia's Mental Health System: the 1998 Mental Health Plan.
• Macfarlane D, Fortin P, Fox J, Gundry S, Oshry J, Warren E. Clinical and human resource planning for the downsizing of psychiatric hospitals: the British Columbia experience. Psychiatric Quarterly. 1997 Spring;68(1):25-42.

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