Have you ever watched a movie and thought to yourself, “Wow. That location looks awfully familiar…” Where Coquitlam’s Riverview Hospital is concerned, it probably happens a lot. The Riverview Hospital was established in 1904 as a provincially owned psychiatric facility. There are 80 buildings, including five massive brick wards, that sit on 244 acres of land overlooking the Fraser River. At its peak, the hospital housed 4,300 patients.   The Riverview Hospital closed in 2012 and the newly constructed Red […]

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