Links

In the News

Humber Et Cetera: Poster Riles Mental Health Advocate
Toronto Star: Horror Show for Former Patients
Toronto Star: If Only the Walls of These Psychiatric Institutions Could Talk
Toronto Star: Deal to Sell Lakeshore Cemetery is Dead

Asylum by the Lake

Psychiatric Survivors Archives of Toronto
New Toronto Historical Society: Mimico Asylum
The Globe and Mail: At the Asylum
Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project
Humber College: Lakeshore Campus
Canadian Architect: Creative Establishment
Architectual Record: Robert A. Gordon Learning Centre
Lakeshore Grounds (PDF format, 1.1 megabytes)
Urban Exploration Resource: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital
Archives Canada: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital Fonds
Toronto Cemeteries: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital Burying Ground
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: Lakeshore Outpatient and Community Clinic
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Kivas Tully
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Kivas Tully
University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry: Our Predecessors: Laying the Foundation
Y-File: Asylum Inmates Contributed More than “Ghostly” Presence, Says Reaume
City of Toronto: Assembly Hall
The Gatehouse
If Walls Could Talk
Hellucidnation
Asylum by the Lake

Former Patients

Schizophrenia Digest: Deinstitutionalization: What Will It Really Cost?
Queen Street Patient Council: Psycho Magazine
Heritage Toronto: The Story of Billy McKay

Former Staff

Dr. Martin A. Fischer
Dr. Nancy J. Marlett
Dr. Mary Valentich
Dr. Paul Murray

Other Asylums

The History of Madness in Canada
Kirkbride Buildings
Denvers State Insane Asylum
The Manteno Project
Whittingham Hospital
High Royds Hospital
Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Historic Asylums of America
Asylum Projects

Other

Etobicoke Historical Society
New Toronto Historical Society
Toronto Lakeshore—Toronto’s Village by the Lake
Our Lakeshore
Mimico Residents Association
Ontario Heritage Act

Ghost Stories/Videos

The Power House of Terror
Toronto Sun: Terror at the Lakeshore Psychiatric Centre
Toronto Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society: the Former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital
Parareaserchers of Ontario: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital
Humber Et Cetera: The Haunted Mansion
Daily Commercial News: Ghosts Spark Trades to Walk off the Job
Haunted Humber College, Main Floor
Humber Lakeshore

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