24 avr. 1978 - Demolition of the Superintendent's Residence

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In 1954, construction began on the new Administration Building on Queen Street and in 1956, the building was completed. Eight years later in 1964, the Ministry of Health announced its plans to replace the Queen Street asylum structures with new buildings on the same site. And in 1966, the name changed to the ‘Queen Street Mental Health Centre’.
In 1970, construction of four new Active Treatment Units began, together with a central Community Centre. At the time, these concrete, glass, and cinder block buildings were welcomed for their contemporary modernity. Each unit was built in a residence style with 250 beds per unit and shared washrooms. Also in 1970, a new opening was made in the wall along Shaw Street. In 1972, Active Treatment Units 1 and 2 and the Paul Christie Community Centre opened and in 1974, Active Treatment Units 3 and 4 were completed. The construction was phased in order to permit the old asylum buildings to remain in clinical and other uses until the successor buildings were ready, and the buildings were numbered according to the order in which they were opened. That is why today, Unit 3 is beside Unit 1 and Unit 4 is next to Unit 2. As each of the four new units was completed, the patients were moved over from the 1850 asylum building, which was demolished in 1976. This was followed in 1978 by the demolition of the former Superintendent’s Residence (later, the Nurses’ Residence) and the remaining sections of the north wall.

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