Insane Asylum

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Front: Industrial-looking hospital near a water tower. Rural area surrounds the grounds. "Also known as Alberta Mental Hospital, Alberta Hospital for the Insane, Provincial Mental Health Hospital, Ponoka Mental Hospital, and Ponoka Insane Asylum. A mental care facility founded in 1911, which became the primary mental health institution in the province. It is also known for being Alberta's first mental hospital. Today, the site exists as a Hospital and Care Centre. ... This was one of the major centres in Alberta where the Eugenics Board enforced Sexual Sterilization, responsible for near 60% of board cases. Of the patients admitted to Ponoka between 1927 and 1941, half were from Canada and the United States. 22.70% were from the United Kingdom, and 12.40% from Poland. People of Scottish ethnicity accounted for 8.00% of sterilization. Other countries with high representation included Austria (6.40%), Russia (5.80%), Germany (5.10%), Sweden (4.60%), Norway (4.10%), Ireland (4.00%), Czecho-Slovakia (3.30%), Hungary (2.60%), Ukraine (2.50%), Denmark (2.40%), and China (2.20%)." Source: http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/institutions/map/517da5df9786fa0a73000002 Back: Miss E. Cooper Dear E. I hope you are better Reg & Len did not come with me they were sick like yourself am looking for them to come this week E.M.