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The Victoria "Lunatic Asylum" opens as the first mental health institution in British Columbia.

1872

MHP
CAN

It is located on the Songhees First Nations reserve in the former Royal Hospital "pesthouse.” These institutions are opened in Canada to separate people with mental health disabilities from the general population.