1921 Essondale Census

1921 B.C.  District 16 Fraser Valley
Sub District:  22   Chilliwack
Essondale - Provincial Mental hospital.
Links to Federal goverment census pages....

page 1: Staff  
page 2: Staff & Patients  
page 3: Patients & Staff
page 4: Staff & Patients:  
page 5:  Patients
page 6:  Patients:  Adachi - Anderson  
page 7:  Patients: Anderson - Bonnett
page 8: Patients:  Boomer - Colquette 
page 9: Patients: Cook - Donnelly 
page 10: Patients: Donohhue - Glenn 
page 11 : Patients:  Gobert - Hogarth  
page 12: Patients:  Hoidge - Knight 
page 13: Patients: Knowles - McLean 
page 14 : Patients:  McWilliam - Norman 
page 15: Patients:  Nystrom - Puillandre 
page 16 : Patients:  Pulford - Simone  
page 17: Patients:  Simmons - Taylor 
page 18: Patients: Taylor - Willsi? Reginald  
page 19: Patients: Wilson - Zorich -- STAFF --  Bell - Emory  

page 20: Patients: Erickson - Zoulander:   Staff: Colony Farm
page 21 :  Staff: Colony Farm 

Total 941 males  67 females  1008 grand total

A 1921 Directory listing of people in the Essondale area, not necessarily people who live, and work at Essondale.

Missing patient

Missing patient Adam Yuan Gorges

Day pass not a free pass for psych patients
How could patients be given a day pass from the psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam if they are a risk to the public?

He has been found:   The 29 year old Male Reported Missing Has Been Located



"Leave them alone, and they will come home wagging their tails behind them"

Missing Forensic patient

Coquitlam RCMP look for psych patient
Police say 50-year-old unlawfully at large after failing to return from day pass to forensic psychiatric hospital

RCMP looking for Christopher Askey

Christopher Askey

UPDATE:  Christopher Askey has been found , safe and okay

Another fine for the Forensic hospital

They had a 200,000 fine in 2016   and now another much larger fine:

  Forensic psych hospital hit with max fine
A $646K penalty levied for assault incidents at Coquitlam facility
I can remember chatting with some staff from this hospital, and they were always worried about the situations that occurred at the Forensic hospital.  Sadly it appears the management has not been able to aleviate the ongoing issues. 

Pete H. Moore

Found these two photographs at the Vancouver Archives,

 CVA 586-6455 - Mr. P.H. Moore, Colony Farm, Essondale B.C.

Photographed in June 1946 

CVA 586-6447 - Mr. P.H. Moore, Colony Farm, Essondale B.C.

Also photographed in June 1946 .

This fellow was Pete H. Moore, who was the manager of Colony Farm from 1917 until 1948 when he retired. He was a very progressive farmer, the right man, for the right job.
  His real name was Percy Homer Moore
     ( Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia  15 October 1883  -  18 December 1959 New Westminster )