After the asylum: a look at Coquitlam’s Riverview Hospital

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After the asylum: a look at Coquitlam’s Riverview Hospital

40 years ago the decision was made to close a Coquitlam psychiatric hospital known as Riverview. The site, which once held thousands of people would become empty. It’s a decision that would have lasting repercussions, decades after the final patients stepped out its doors. Ashley Burr reports.

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