Hi everyone Can anyone tell me where this is/would have been in 1940? Are there any photos of the home? Would this be the one 1886 - Asylum, Riveton; poor and harmless insane 1922 - New Asylum built; harmless insane only 1922 - Old Asylum became “Old People's Home” Thanks much, Lorna

This building is still in Riverton, outside of Stellarton. It is now called Riverview Home and is home to challenged adults. When I was young, my mother used to take the Brownies and Guides there every Christmas to entertain the residents. We always had a Candlelight Service at church, so we would do all the singing parts as well as carolling, and of course brought them all Christmas presents and lunch. It certainly taught us to appreciate how fortunate we all were, and to learn to have empathy for those not as fortunate in life.My mom told me when she was in nurse's training at the Aberdeen Hospital School of Nursing(she graduated in 1940) they did their Psychiatric Training part at the home in Riverton. Diane Hayman, Westville ---- Lorna Xixis <xixis@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Can anyone tell me where this is/would have been in 1940? > Are there any photos of the home? > > Would this be the one > 1886 - Asylum, Riveton; poor and harmless insane > 1922 - New Asylum built; harmless insane only > 1922 - Old Asylum became “Old People's Home” > > Thanks much, > > Lorna > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-NS-PICTOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Very intersting reading the mail about the Riverton home I spent a lot of time there as a teen ager as my best friends grand mother worked there and we used to spend the weekends did write to them at one time trying to find some info on my great Uncle who was in there but they never did reply so if you out anything would love to hear from you Jean in B.C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorna Xixis" <xixis@hawaii.rr.com> To: "CAN-NS-PICTOU-L@rootsweb.com" <CAN-NS-PICTOU@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:21 PM Subject: [CAN-NS-PICTOU] 1940 Died in County Home (Poor), Pictou Co. Hi everyone Can anyone tell me where this is/would have been in 1940? Are there any photos of the home? Would this be the one 1886 - Asylum, Riveton; poor and harmless insane 1922 - New Asylum built; harmless insane only 1922 - Old Asylum became “Old People's Home” Thanks much, Lorna ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-NS-PICTOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I worked there out of high school in 1975 at that time it was called the Pictou County Home for the Physically and Mentally disabled. It consisted of 2 buildings at that time, if I remember correctly. one building housed the mentally disabled portion of their patients, this was not the patients with mental retardation, sundowners, alzheimers (except later stage), etc, but the more challenging and violent mental patients that were  not violent enough to be sent to the provincial hospital, but were a little too aggressive to be with most of the other patients. the other building, where I worked at , housed the more physically disabled patients, most were elderly, with a handfull under age 40. It was not uncommon for patients from one or the other building to spend short periods of time housed in the other building depending on the changes in their conditions Thelma (now living in VA) --- On Thu, 3/4/10, crckmda@shaw.ca <crckmda@shaw.ca> wrote: From: crckmda@shaw.ca <crckmda@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [CAN-NS-PICTOU] 1940 Died in County Home (Poor), Pictou Co. To: can-ns-pictou@rootsweb.com Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 10:53 AM Very intersting reading  the mail about the Riverton home I spent a lot of time there as a teen ager as my best friends grand mother worked there and we used to spend the weekends did write to them at one time trying to find some info on my great Uncle who was in there but they never did reply so if you out anything would love to hear from you Jean in B.C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorna Xixis" <xixis@hawaii.rr.com> To: "CAN-NS-PICTOU-L@rootsweb.com" <CAN-NS-PICTOU@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:21 PM Subject: [CAN-NS-PICTOU] 1940 Died in County Home (Poor), Pictou Co. Hi everyone Can anyone tell me where this is/would have been in 1940? Are there any photos of the home? Would this be the one 1886 - Asylum, Riveton; poor and harmless insane 1922 - New Asylum built; harmless insane only 1922 - Old Asylum became “Old People's Home” Thanks much, Lorna ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-NS-PICTOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-NS-PICTOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message