Thank you Thelma and Jean. Nice to know the personal touches. Lorna ----- Original Message ----- From: Thelma McClanahan To: crckmda@shaw.ca ; can-ns-pictou@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:56 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-NS-PICTOU] 1940 Died in County Home (Poor), Pictou Co. 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) 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