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Woodlands (New Westminster)

Woodlands (New Westminster) is a engineering 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 Woodlands (New Westminster) rather than just read about it. In short: Woodlands or Woodlands School was a hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada that served as a psychiatric hospital and later as a facility for children with a developmental disorder, as well as runaways and wards of the state. Many incidents of abuse took place there.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Woodlands or Woodlands School was a hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada that served as a psychiatric hospital and later as a facility for children with a developmental disorder, as well as runaways and wards of the state. Many incidents of abuse took place there.

History Woodlands opened in 1878 as the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, which sat on approximately 40 hectares of crown land. By 1886, the resident population had reached 65. By 1896, the patient population had grown to 171. In 1897 the name was changed to The Provincial Hospital for the Insane. In 1950 the name was changed again to Woodlands School. By 1961, the facility had reached its highest resident population of 1,436. Severe overcrowding lead to some patients being transferred elsewhere in the province, such as Tranquille. The asylum continued to decline into the 1970s with many patients being moved to community placements and group homes. Woodlands closed in 1996. Similar facilities elsewhere in British Columbia included Tranquille Sanatorium in Kamloops, Essondale or Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, and Valleyview, also in Coquitlam.

Controversy During its peak, the asylum housed about 1,500 mentally and physically disabled children. Investigations by the Ministry of Children and Family Development found that about 20% of patients at the facility suffered some form of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. In 2002, a class action lawsuit was filed against the hospital. When settled, over 850 former students were eligible for compensation between $3,000 to $150,000 dependent on the level of abuse. Survivors who suffered from abuse before 1974 were excluded from this compensation due to the Crown Proceedings Act. While the case was settled in 2003, payout to the survivors did not occur until 2018.

Post-Closure After closure in 1996, the asylum sat abandoned. In July 2008, a major fire destroyed a number of buildings, including the second and third floors of the center block. After proposals to preserve Woodlands' Centre Block Tower were opposed by former residents, New Westminster council voted in July 2011 to demolish the tower. In October of 2011, the tower was demolished, with a crowd of about 150 watching. Many of the onlookers were former residents of the school. The site of the former school was also considered for a station on the Expo Line portion of the SkyTrain system. However, plans to redevelop the site never materialized before the construction of the station, meaning that even though the tracks were built to accommodate the new station, it was never built. The neighborhood has since been renamed Victoria Hill, and is home to 1200 new homes.

References

External links "Asylum: a long, last look at Woodlands". Retrieved July 13, 2011.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Woodlands (New Westminster)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Woodlands (New Westminster) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, 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 Woodlands (New Westminster) 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 Woodlands (New Westminster) 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 Woodlands (New Westminster)

In research: Woodlands (New Westminster) appears in engineering 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 Woodlands (New Westminster) 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: Woodlands (New Westminster) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1878 establishments in British Columbia, 1996 disestablishments in British Columbia, Buildings and structures in New Westminster, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Woodlands (New Westminster) 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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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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