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woodlands (New Westminster)
< on 11/11/2009 9:46 PM >
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I'm new here, and I didn't see this in the database so I decided to post it.

My friends and I infiltrated an 1878 lunatic asylum (mainly for children) which was mostly burned down last year.

"1885 -- Tennis lawn, summerhouse and cowshed built by patients. Twenty-one new patients admitted classified with the following disorders: religious excitement, intemperance, masturbation, money troubles, living alone, unknown."

This place was nothing less then a torture house for it's "patients", I've read stories about how if staff members would talk publicly about the torture of innocent children that went on in there, they were never to be seen or heard from again.

"You never get away from the horror, and what I mean by horror is watching a person eat their own stool and being beat senseless," -ex patient

anyhow, the pics:

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I love how the access point to the third floor was a hole in the ceiling. We used a door and palette to climb up.
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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 1 on 11/12/2009 1:01 AM >
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Posted by Accidental_Protege
I'm new here, and I didn't see this in the database so I decided to post it.

Welcome! It's in the DB, but it's only visible to full members. You've some nice images there, looks like you got in toward the end of Woodlands' life. It's a shame it burned before I got up here, I would've liked to see it.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 2 on 11/12/2009 1:32 AM >
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Take a look again:

http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=20670

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 3 on 11/12/2009 2:22 AM >
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Iqueld told me about this place a while back, I wish I could have seen it before it burnt down... ):

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 4 on 11/12/2009 3:28 AM >
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Never heard of the place. Wow, cool pix, would be nice to see it some day.
Here are a couple pix of another asylum in BC.

edit: removed pics per request of member.
[last edit 3/23/2010 11:30 PM by Agent Skelly - edited 1 times]

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 5 on 11/12/2009 4:08 AM >
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sweet, thanks digital_me

Agent Skelly, sorry I missed that. I like my pics more though, probably cuz it's more destroyed.

I really like taking pictures of abandoned broken shit, and the history of what's left of this building was inspiring to me too. I guess it's rare in Canada where our cultural history sucks.

SteamPunk, cool pics!

But yeah..this place was nuts. Apparently it used to be a cemetery too.

"Almost 3,000 people who died in government care and were unclaimed were buried at Woodlands between 1926 and 1957. In 1977, a Social Credit cabinet order-in-council resulted in the people's headstones-about 1,800 of them-being pulled up and the area grassed over and redesignated as a park. McCallum discovered that some of the headstones were used to construct a staff barbecue patio and stairs. After 1958, unclaimed bodies were sent to UBC as cadavers."

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 6 on 11/14/2009 3:49 AM >
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Steampunk's parallel universe is eerily similar to this reality. The cosmos truly is a mystery.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 7 on 11/14/2009 4:24 AM >
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Nice pics! Nice to have an update on what it's like, now after the fire.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 8 on 11/15/2009 4:34 AM >
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But yeah..this place was nuts. Apparently it used to be a cemetery too.

"Almost 3,000 people who died in government care and were unclaimed were buried at Woodlands between 1926 and 1957. In 1977, a Social Credit cabinet order-in-council resulted in the people's headstones-about 1,800 of them-being pulled up and the area grassed over and redesignated as a park. McCallum discovered that some of the headstones were used to construct a staff barbecue patio and stairs. After 1958, unclaimed bodies were sent to UBC as cadavers."


The bodies are still there, and a few hundred yards away is the old BC Pen cemetery. The headstones are still there, but some of the bodies have been reburied because erosion from the nearby creek caused caskets to become exposed. Place is overgrown now and you have to cut through property owned by the Queen's Park Care Centre to get to it (there's also a four foot high fence around the cemetery itself, as if that keeps anyone who isn't a child/midget out), so I can't really give exact directions...but let's just say that if you google "BC Pen Cemetery" you'll find a couple sites dedicated to it. One of these sites has an old aerial photo of BC Pen with an arrow pointing to where the cemetery is. Then all you need to do is open up Google Earth, since I think most of us who live in the area should know what the front gate of BC Pen is now.

I've actually been meaning to go for a while, but I got sidetracked by a trip downtown the last time I had time to...and Monday I'm going to make another trip to Fantasy Garden in hopes that the rain will keep unwanted obstacles (read: people) away.

Posted by dogyeaars
Nice pics! Nice to have an update on what it's like, now after the fire.


I think there's only a couple buildings left now. What's left can actually be viewed from Google Earth.
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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 9 on 3/1/2010 8:09 AM >
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HAHA I used to live right by sapperton station and would always go there at night.
i didn't have my camera at the time so i couldn't take photos, but i almost fell off that ledge. Good times

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 10 on 3/4/2010 12:16 AM >
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I had 'religious excitement' once but it was over rated.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 11 on 3/5/2010 9:31 AM >
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I checked out Woodlands twice when it was still around. First time was a quick in and out photo op for a meet.

Second time I went there was more extensive and I was with a friend who wasn't an explorer. We experienced and saw things there that almost 6 years later, still give me nightmares. I vowed I would never go in there again, and was quite happy when the main building burnt down. I still shudder every time I pass the place on the SkyTrain.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 12 on 3/5/2010 11:17 AM >
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Posted by digital_me
It's a shame it burned before I got up here, I would've liked to see it.


i missed Woodlands by a few hundred feet last time i was in Vancouver...i spent an hour and a half searching the park on the other side of the road for an asylum that wasn't there. whoops. that'll teach me to do recce next time haha.

glad to see there's still bits left. any word on if they're going to actually demo it? the fires (yes, fires) were very close together timewise, so it had a lot of people thinking demo by arson. i'm sure you can find a thread here about the fires.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 13 on 6/18/2010 1:35 PM >
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I'm going be heading to New West for the next few days, anyone know if there's anything left here still? last I heard, from an admittedly 87 year-old and home-bound source, anything left was either occupied in the case of a building he claimed wasn't burned, or torn down in favor of condos.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 14 on 6/18/2010 6:16 PM >
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what you see in the pix is pretty much whats there, the walkup to the old pen nextdoor is pretty dope though.
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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 15 on 6/18/2010 6:34 PM >
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The "don't walk on these stairs" stairs? Those are pretty cool, that's really all I've seen of the place so far, and they're what lead to me asking around about it in the first place, didn't have a camera on me then though.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 16 on 6/21/2010 3:18 PM >
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It was burned down by the developer, because they were being forced to preserve it, but wanted the land for more condos

Can't preserve a pile of ashes...

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 17 on 6/21/2010 8:50 PM >
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Posted by Stong
It was burned down by the developer, because they were being forced to preserve it, but wanted the land for more condos

Can't preserve a pile of ashes...


While their is some truth to this, the place had "Played out" as far as a scrap metal mine, and it is the MO of some to torch it when it's done. I think BOTH scenarios are true, and some collaboration was in effect. I knew the place very well.


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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 18 on 6/22/2010 1:34 AM >
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As someone who was there the day before the fire, I noticed that the two security officers that ONNI had hired were running garden hoses around the place in broad daylight.

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Re: woodlands (New Westminster)
<Reply # 19 on 6/25/2010 5:43 PM >
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Posted by SteamPunk


While their is some truth to this, the place had "Played out" as far as a scrap metal mine, and it is the MO of some to torch it when it's done. I think BOTH scenarios are true, and some collaboration was in effect. I knew the place very well.



My money says the developers were responsible.

When places don't burn down until the property is under development, and just the places which would cost the developer money instead of make them money, end up burning, something ain't on the up and up.

In the time leading up to the fires, security there got less and less, to the point that people could almost walk in in front of them...

Then, after the fire... they went into hyperdrive to knock everything down super fast. Why? Because the vast majority of the structure wasn't really effected by the fire. Anyone that got a chance to look closely at the rubble piles they made, saw lots and lots of undamaged material (well, undamaged till they broke it all down).


On a side note, Steampunk, do you know of the homeless dude in New West (sadly, very messed up) with the long dirty blonde dreds ? The guy is a magnet for abandonment destruction. He was the reason the old houses on Barnet got knocked down (he repeatedly broke in and kept triggering the alarms). I saw him the other day running around the New West city hall, waving his jacket, dashing back and forth all over...

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