Howard Asylum Forgotten History of Toronto
What happend with this buildings?
This was Project of the building
How it locked
History of Queen Street Site. Architect John Howard's "Provincial Lunatic Asylum"
as it would have appeared in the 19th Century. 1001 Queen Street West
has been home to a mental health facility for 150 years. On January 26,
1850, the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, as it was then known, first opened its doors.
Here is the official cronology"
1846: Construction begins for the first ‘Provincial Lunatic
Asylum’ on a 50 acre portion of the Garrison Reserve (Military
property). The architect was John George Howard. 1851: The Toronto architecture firm of Cumberland and Ridout is engaged to design a wall with lodges and an entrance gate around the asylum.
1889: Two new brick workshop buildings (extant) are constructed for use by staff and patients.
1964: The Ministry of Health announces plans to replace the Queen Street asylum structures with new buildings on the same site.
1970: Construction of new units begins.
What happend in 1850 that there were so many mental patients ? Did we loose some historical information ?
Medical director Joseph Workman believed that 50 per cent of his alleged
“lunacy” cases were curable at home. But with this half-built facility
so close at hand, local officials found it a convenient place to drop
off their criminals and misfits.
The new hospital was situated well outside the city, in a large open
area on the lake shore. It was intended to be a sanctuary, a safe place,
for persons who were suffering. Inmates were to be treated as patients,
there to be cured in an atmosphere of cleanliness, kindness, decency
and compassion. The impressions of Susanna Moodie, visiting Toronto in
the autumn of 1852, well captured the new attitude:
Toronto Globe editor George Brown wrote of the new Provincial
Lunatic Asylum in 1850. He optimistically viewed it as a true asylum,
“where disturbing influences are absent—not a mere hospital or
prison—where every good part of human nature is brought into play.”
Within a few short years, however, Brown’s attitudes radically
altered. An old political adversary, Dr. Joseph Workman, was named head
of the institution.
Brown soon became a harsh critic, most severely in
February, 1857, when the Globe published an attack on the moral
character and medical competence of the Medical Superintendent. Dr.
Workman was guilty of “villainy, deceit, and tyranny,” wrote a
disgruntled former hospital porter, James Magar. Calling himself “the
moral Sentinel of the Asylum,” his letter was headlined by the Globe, “Recent
Disgraceful and Outrageous Doings at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum.”
Magar outlined a number of alleged incidents of sexual misconduct,
inadequate security, physical harassment, and administrative
mismanagement.
Joseph Workman a phisician that worked therehad the following impression about the hospital
“Nothing,” he once wrote, “has so largely contributed to the filling of
this asylum with incurables, as the almost astonishing ignorance of the
medical profession, on the true nature, & the proper treatment of
insanity.” One of his reports attacked the maltreatment of the mentally
ill with “active and depressing therapeutic measures,” including,
“bloodletting, purging, vomiting, salivation, blistering, cupping,
setons, low diet, and the whole battery of medical destructives.”
An evil of inconceivable magnitude … in the
working and present condition of this Institution has been the
introduction into it, of criminal Lunatics from the Provincial
Penitentiary, and the County Jails. It is an outrage against public
benevolence, and an indignity to human affliction, to cast into the same
house of refuge with the harmless, feeble, kind-hearted and truthful
victims of ordinary insanity, those moral monsters … or, yet worse,
those villains who affect insanity by means of evading the just
punishment of the most atrocious crimes.
Grief; Love; Loss of Property; Religious
Excitement; Religious Despair; Family Quarrels; Jealousy; Fright;
Disappointed Affections; Excessive Study; Reading and Fasting;
Intemperance; Breach of Promise of Marriage; Suppression of Menses;
Slander; Want of Employment; Marriage; Miscarriage, and bad treatment;
Spirit Rapping; Death of Child; Death of Husband; Death of Wife;
Business Difficulties; Political Excitement; Disputed Boundary; Strong
Tea; Eclipse of the Sun; Religious Controversy; Inhalation of Nitrous
Oxide Gas; Reading Religious Books; Tobacco; Remorse of Conscience,
&c., &c.
Despite its name, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, the hospital was not a safe
place separate from the world. Its creation and its administration were
inevitably involved in the political machinations of the time. Since it
spent public money—a great deal of public money—it was always subject
to public scrutiny, especially by journalist/politicians like George
Brown. Since it hired many public employees, it was ever subject to
accusations of patronage—in those days patronage politics touched every
provincially administered institution. Brown had taken an interest in it
long before it opened.
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Star Forts Toronto Canada
This plan shows the fort as it was rebuilt after its predecessor was destroyed in the Battle of York, 1813. A souvenir of that event remains in the crater on the lakeshore left when the Grand Magazine was detonated on the orders of Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, the British commander in chief. A complete key to each of the buildings and outbuildings helps understand the scale of the establishment.
Plan of Fort at York, Upper Canada, shewing its state in March 1816. [Sgd] Royl. Engineers Drawg Room, Quebec 16th Feby 1816, J. B. Duberger, Junr. Quebec, 24th June 1816, G. Nicolls, Lt. Col. Rl. Engineers
Image courtesy Library and Archives Canada: NMC 23139
Winearls, MUC no. 2039 (2)
When the Fort was eventually transferred in 1909 to the City of Toronto, it was on condition “that the site of the Old Fort . . . shall, as far as possible, be restored to its original condition as shown on the attached copy of a plan of it, prepared by G. Nicolls, Government Engineer, and dated Quebec, 24th June, 1816, and that the same shall be preserved and maintained in such condition forever.”
Here is the edge of star fort in Toronto just the edge is still visible on the map. Was it bombed again? Where is the history of that event?
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Here is a map from 1878. Part of the star fort named Old Fort was still standing.
Map of the City of Toronto (with manuscript additions shewing real estate exemptions from taxation, 1878) - Detail
Compiled and drawn by Maurice Gaviller, C.E. & P.L.S., from plans filed in the Registry Office and the most recent surveys, 1872. Wadsworth & Unwin, P.L. Surveyors, Toronto, Sepr. 1st, 1872
Image courtesy Library and Archives Canada: NMC25641
Image courtesy Library and Archives Canada: NMC 23139
Winearls, MUC no. 2039 (2)
When the Fort was eventually transferred in 1909 to the City of Toronto, it was on condition “that the site of the Old Fort . . . shall, as far as possible, be restored to its original condition as shown on the attached copy of a plan of it, prepared by G. Nicolls, Government Engineer, and dated Quebec, 24th June, 1816, and that the same shall be preserved and maintained in such condition forever.”
Here is the edge of star fort in Toronto just the edge is still visible on the map. Was it bombed again? Where is the history of that event?
Address
Here is a map from 1878. Part of the star fort named Old Fort was still standing.
This plan shows where the Agricultural Fairgrounds at Toronto were
located from 1858-1878. The new Industrial Exhibition Grounds, now the
core of Exhibition Place, were to the south across three rail lines on
land marked 'Garrison Common' that wrapped around the New Fort. They
were leased from the Government of Canada until 1909, when the title to
them was transferred to the City of Toronto.
Map of the City of Toronto (with manuscript additions shewing real estate exemptions from taxation, 1878) - Detail
Compiled and drawn by Maurice Gaviller, C.E. & P.L.S., from plans filed in the Registry Office and the most recent surveys, 1872. Wadsworth & Unwin, P.L. Surveyors, Toronto, Sepr. 1st, 1872
Image courtesy Library and Archives Canada: NMC25641
Toronto History
This map shows the boundaries of the Toronto Purchase, an area transferred to Crown ownership by a treaty negotiated between the British and the resident Indians in 1787.
Such treaties established British title ( documents signed in a foreign language by people that never learned to write or speak that language seems to me deceiving) to lands needed for the resettlement of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution.
The trail marked is the "Toronto Portage" (‘Carrying Place’ -N.) which connected Lake Ontario to the Holland River and Lake Simcoe; the route had long been used by Indians and fur traders.
The area labelled "Toronto" marks the site of the French trading fort abandoned 30 years earlier. The ruins, today near the bandshell in the CNE grounds, have recently been excavated.”meaning destroyed
The signature that took the land from indians.
Such treaties established British title ( documents signed in a foreign language by people that never learned to write or speak that language seems to me deceiving) to lands needed for the resettlement of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution.
The trail marked is the "Toronto Portage" (‘Carrying Place’ -N.) which connected Lake Ontario to the Holland River and Lake Simcoe; the route had long been used by Indians and fur traders.
The area labelled "Toronto" marks the site of the French trading fort abandoned 30 years earlier. The ruins, today near the bandshell in the CNE grounds, have recently been excavated.”meaning destroyed
- Isobel Ganton & Joan Winearls, MAPPING TORONTO'S FIRST CENTURY 1787-1884
Here is a later map that shows the image of a star fort already destroyed. This is a proof that an ancient civilization lived on this land that built star forts.
Toronto Island was not an Island in 1788 one year after deceiving transfer.
Ranks of Anunnaki
40 was Enki numerical rank.
50 was the original rank number of Enlil and the stand in the rank of his heir Ninurta. Then later taken by Marduk.
50.was used to create a new unit if time the 50 years jubilee.
In the year of the jubilee dev later the year of the Ram that repeat every 50 years
The trumpet call of ram's horn was to be sounded through the land.
The freedom was to be proclaimed throughout the land and all who dwelled in it.
People should return to their families.
50 was the original rank number of Enlil and the stand in the rank of his heir Ninurta. Then later taken by Marduk.
50.was used to create a new unit if time the 50 years jubilee.
In the year of the jubilee dev later the year of the Ram that repeat every 50 years
The trumpet call of ram's horn was to be sounded through the land.
The freedom was to be proclaimed throughout the land and all who dwelled in it.
People should return to their families.
Properties should return to its original owners.
The land and house sales should be redeemed and undone.
Slaves that should be treated all time as hired help shall be set free and liberty shall be given the land itself by leaving it fallow that year.
The land and house sales should be redeemed and undone.
Slaves that should be treated all time as hired help shall be set free and liberty shall be given the land itself by leaving it fallow that year.
As odd as it seems the 50-year calendar We have adopted century a 100 years a convenient unit of time the name jubilee is translated in Yovel in The Hebrew Bible and means a ram.
So a year of the Ram was repeated every 50 years.
So Jubilee was related to Marduk and his age if the Ram The year was announced by sounding in a ram's horn.
So a year of the Ram was repeated every 50 years.
So Jubilee was related to Marduk and his age if the Ram The year was announced by sounding in a ram's horn.
72 procession of the equinox
50 rank of Marduk
50 ×72 =3600
3600 the number of earth years that Nibiru has a complete rotation around the Sun.
The ancient book The book of Jubilee. A book of messianic expectations when the Messiah will return.
50 rank of Marduk
50 ×72 =3600
3600 the number of earth years that Nibiru has a complete rotation around the Sun.
The ancient book The book of Jubilee. A book of messianic expectations when the Messiah will return.
Sodom and Gomora
There are Sumerian texts that talk about Sodom and Gomora
UR lamentation
The lamentation over the desolation of Ur and Sumer
The Nippur Lamentation
The Uruk lamentation
And others.
The lamentation over the desolation of Ur and Sumer
The Nippur Lamentation
The Uruk lamentation
And others.
Sodom And Gomora were destroyed as result of a nuclear weapon brought from Nibiru and was hidden in Abzu today Africa by the Anunnaki when they arrived on Earth and dropped after a conference between Anunnaki
The texts tell about who dropped the bombs; their names are Nergal Enki's son and Ninurta Enlil Son with The Approval Of Enlil. Enki opposed the decision.
We know from the texts when it happens. 2024 B.C.E. and represent the year of the co lapse of the Sumerian civilization.
It was an event preventable avoidable.
The text "A lamentation over the destruction of Ur" spoke about the abandonment of the gods.
The text "A lamentation over the destruction of Ur" spoke about the abandonment of the gods.
Nanar/Sin Enlil son and Ningal his wife abandons Ur Enlil “the wild bull” abandoned his beloved temple in Nippur also his spouse Ninlil was also gone.
Ninmah abandoned her city Kush.
Inanna the queen of Erech abandoned Erech.one Sumerian city after another was listed as having been abandoned.
A mysterious calamity affected the entire Sumer.
The answer to the puzzle was in the text “Gone with the wind”.
The cause of the evil wind was the nuclear upheaval. Near the Sinai Peninsula, the texts asserted that the gods knew its source and cause.
The cause of the evil wind was the nuclear upheaval. Near the Sinai Peninsula, the texts asserted that the gods knew its source and cause.
Weapons were launched from the sky by
Ninurta Enlil son and Nergal Enki son. They spread as some rays scorching everything like fire.
Various texts attributed the maelstrom to the explosion at the place where the gods ascend and descend to the obliteration of the space port rather than the destruction of the sinned cities.
As far as the god's war concerned it appeared that was each man for itself. Lamentation texts the Ur lamentation and the Kippur lamentation talk about the events. In Ur the capital It was so incredibly loss that he refused to believe that faith has been sealed his long emotional appeal to his father and legal to have wild Calamity is recorded in the Ur lamentation
Enlil admits in one of the texts that “Ur was granted kingship an eternal reign was not granted”.
Nanar and Ningal decided to stay put. It was daytime that evil wind approached Ur. The divine e couple spent the night of nightmares in termite house an underground chamber deep inside the ziggurat.
By morning the venomous wind was carried off the city. Ningal realized that Nannar was ill. She had the God carried out of the city.
Ninurta spouse Bau who was alone in Langash while her husband was busy destroying the space port. She was trained as healing physician and just could not force herself to leave. She did not survive long thereafter.
Eridu Enki s city was at the edge of “the evil wind” path.
We learn from the “Eridu lament” that Ninki Enki's spouse flew away from the city to safe heaven in Enki Abzu Africa.
Enki himself departed from the city far enough to get out of the evil wind.
"The Lord of Eridu stayed outside his city for the fate of his city he wept with bitter tears. "
Amazingly the least affected was Babylon.
At the alert was sounded Marduk contacted his father to seek advice. What are the people of Babylon to do?
At the alert was sounded Marduk contacted his father to seek advice. What are the people of Babylon to do?
Enki told him to tell his followers neither to turn back nor to look back. Off escape was not possible people should shelter underground. Get them into chamber bellow the earth into a darkness was Enki advice.
Following Enki advice and due to the wind direction Babylon and his people were unharmed.
The evil wind was the cause of the decline and collapse of Sumerian civilization.
Both Marduk/Ra Enki's son and Nabu Marduk's son survived the nuclear blast.
Nabu was personally targeted by Nergal his uncle or Enki's son. He apparently hides on one of the Mediterranean islands and escaped harm. Afterward, he was given his own cult in Mesopotamia called Borsippa.
Me Ancient Tablets PC of Anunnaki
In Sumerian texts, Me' s were portable objects which held all the knowledge and other aspects of a high civilization.
One can envision them as some kind of computer disks or memory chips which in spite of their minute size hold the vast amount of information.
When Kippur was to become after the deluge city of men, Enlil complained to Any that Enki was keeping all the Me to himself using them only to enhance Eridu and Enki's hideaway in Abzu (Africa). Enki was forced to share those essential Me with Enlil.
When Inanna wished to make Uruk a great urban centre she set out to Enki's Adobe to pry some essential Men's out of her great uncle.
A text "Inanna and Enki" and subtitled by modern scholars "The transfer of the art and ciciliza6from Eridu to Erech" describes how Inanna journeyed in her boat of heaven to the Abzu in South eastern Africa where Enki has secreted away the Me's.
Enki ordered his chamberlain to prepare a banquet meal with plenty of vines made and sweet dates.
Inanna brought the subject of Men's.
He showed her niece some of Me for the lordship of the exalted and ensure g tiara, the Me for the drone of Kingship.
Inanna brought the subject of Men's.
He showed her niece some of Me for the lordship of the exalted and ensure g tiara, the Me for the drone of Kingship.
Bright Inanna took them and asked for more. Enki showed her Me' s for the exalted sceptre and staff, the exalted shrine, and righteous Rulership.
Another Me provided functions and attributes of Divine Lady temples and rituals priests and attendants, justice and courts, music and arts, masonry and woodworking metalwork leatherwork and weaving, kingship and mathematics and last but not least weapons and art of warfare.
Inanna took Me's and in a boat of heaven lived for Uruk.
Enki, when sobered up, ordered his chamberlain to pursue Inanna her great chamber and retrieve the Me's
Inanna handed the Me to her pilot while she argued who flew to Uruk.
The people of Uruk forever recall how their city became the seat of Kingship.
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