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Rockwood Asylum

Canada

Rockwood Asylum (also known as Rockwood Lunatic Asylum or Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane) was one of the first criminal asylums in Upper Canada, established in 1859 in Kingston, Ontario. Although methodologies of patient care changed drastically throughout its existence, the facility existed as some form of psychiatric hospital until its closure in 2000. The four-storey building remains vacant on its original property just west of Portsmouth, a few metres inland from the shore of Lake Ontario.

Hospital data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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