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Asylum (Riverview Hospital Story Project: Part One)

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Title: Asylum (Riverview Hospital Story Project: Part One)
Credits: Lisa G. Nielsen (Director)
Heidi Currie (Film producer)
Norma McMurdo (Interviewee)
Description: An interview with nurse Norma McMurdo, who reflects on her time working at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C. from 1949 to 1951. Includes compassionate memories of lesbian patients who were not mentally ill. Part One of the Riverview Hospital Project.
Date: 2008
Genre: documentary film
Form: videorecording
Extent: 7 minutes
Publisher: Lisa G. Nielsen
Place: New Westminster, British Columbia
Production details: Director, camera, editor, Lisa G. Nielsen. Co-producer and interviewer, Heidi Currie. Interviewee and voice of Norma McMurdo.
Production features: sound, colour with black and white sequences, archival photographs
Topical Subject(s): Essondale Asylum (Coquitlam, B.C.)
Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam, B.C.)
Psychiatric nurses--British Columbia--Interviews
Psychiatric hospitals--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History
Mental health facitilities--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History
Riverview Hospital Story Project
Geographical Subject(s): Coquitlam, British Columbia
Geographic Coordinates: 49.2458° N, 122.8048° W
Use and reproduction: © Copyright (2008). Any reproduction or republication of all or part of this video is expressly prohibited. All rights reserved.
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