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Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital

Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital rather than just read about it. In short: The Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the town of New Toronto, Ontario (now part of the city of Toronto). The hospital grounds now form part of Humber College's Lakeshore Campus.

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Reference excerpt

The Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the town of New Toronto, Ontario (now part of the city of Toronto). The hospital grounds now form part of Humber College's Lakeshore Campus.

History The hospital was built in 1888. as the Mimico Asylum. The doors officially opened on 21 January 1889. The original idea for the hospital's design of a cottage system was Doctor Joseph Workman who wanted a hospital that would not feel like an institution. The architect for the site was Kivas Tully, who worked with gardener Samuel Matheson, designed the original facility under the supervision of the Superintendent of the Queen Street Asylum, Dr. Daniel K. Clark.

Most of the buildings were built by the patients themselves. Patients also helped with the laundry and tended to the gardens. The Assembly Hall, now operated by the City of Toronto, was built by the patients in 1898 as a recreation location for the patients, staff, and the public. Sunday worship services were also conducted at the Assembly Hall. The hospital also had its own cemetery, located in the vicinity of Evans Avenue and Horner Avenue (on and off ramps on south side of the Gardiner next to Islington Nurseries). The cemetery contains the remains of 1,511 former patients of the hospital. It's about 3 km north of the former hospital, tucked between the Gardiner Expressway and a strip of suburban businesses. Flat stones currently mark fewer than 200 graves. A powerhouse for the site was built in the 1930s to provide heat for the cottages. After several decades of use, the hospital was renovated starting in 1959 by then superintendent, Doctor H.C Moorehouse. The site was closed as a hospital on September 1, 1979 with the last 280 patients being transferred to other sites. The decision to close the site was due to its needing to be renovated again. At its height in 1950, the hospital housed 1,391 patients. In 1988, the site was designated as a historic property.

As a filming location Prior to the hospital's 1979 closure, the 1977 film Equus, starring Richard Burton, was shot here. After the closure of the hospital, the property's use as a filming location continued. Notably in the movies Phobia, Higher Education, and Police Academy as well as its sequels, Police Academy 3: Back in Training and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. An actual asylum scene from SCTV's McKenzie Bros. 1983 comedy film, Strange Brew, was filmed at the location. It also provided the setting for the fictional police station (in an unnamed northeastern North American metropolis) that the 1985 Canadian-produced police procedural Night Heat is centred around as well as the fictional Matheson Academy in the Netflix 2020 series Locke & Key.

Humber College

In 1991, Humber College signed a 99-year lease on the property. The College then started renovating the cottages for use as offices and classrooms. By April 2015, all but the Administration building, known as Building G were renovated. This last cottage underwent restoration and was opened in September 2016 as the Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Today

All of the cottages have been rebuilt by Humber College for their purposes. In 1999, the former Gatehouse was rebuilt and became a supportive centre for children. The former powerhouse now has an outdoor skating rink beside it and the building itself has change rooms and washrooms for those who wish to skate. The former Superintendent's residence is now part of the Jean Tweed Centre. The Assembly Hall was renovated in 2000 and opened to the public in 2001. It is now operated by the City of Toronto. The grounds are now open to the public as a park. A Tim Hortons occupies the former Carriage House. A new Welcome Centre was built and opened in September 2016. The Registrar's Office, Health and Career Services have been relocated in this new building.

Name The hospital was opened as the Mimico Asylum, but changed names several times over the years, becoming the Mimico Insane Asylum in 1894, the Mimico Hospital for the Insane in 1911, the Ontario Hospital (Mimico) in 1920, the Ontario Hospital, New Toronto in 1934, before finally becoming the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in 1964.

References

External links New Toronto Historical Society: Mimico Asylum The Assembly Hall Police Academy A brief history of the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital Lakeshore Grounds - Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital The Story Unfolds After the Asylum - Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital The Hospital History Project

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital

In research: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1889 establishments in Ontario, 1979 disestablishments in Ontario, Defunct hospitals in Ontario, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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