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1845-2002, predominant 1986-2002 (Creation)
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29.7 cm of textual records (37 files) 65 photographs : b&w and col ; 20.2 X 27.7 cm or smaller 10 architectural drawings : 1 blueprint and 9 whiteprints, some have ms annotations, and two are reproductions ; 135 X 90 cm or smaller Some architectural drawings are badly chipped and torn and suffer from some water damage.
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Pleasance Crawford was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 26 July 1938 and was raised in the state of Maine. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art from Oberlin College (Ohio) in 1960. Moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1970, she completed Plant Materials Courses A and B at the University of Guelph for the Ontario Diploma in Horticulture Correspondence Program. She subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Toronto, graduating with First Class Honours in 1979. She was also the recipient of the Jules F. Wegman Fellowship in 1979. Following her graduation from the University of Toronto, Ms. Crawford began her career as a landscape design historian, which in Canada was a nascent field at that point in time. During the past 25 years, Ms. Crawford has acted as a consultant to governmental (i.e., the Province of Ontario, and the City of Toronto, among others) and non-governmental clients (i.e., Humber College, Royal Botanical Gardens, and various architectural firms) and has helped prepare, often on interdisciplinary teams, heritage significance studies and conservation guidelines for projects of varying sizes and relating to various time periods. Ms. Crawford has also taught at the University of Toronto and has written extensively on Canadian landscape history. She was co-editor with Edwinna von Baeyer of the 1995 anthology Garden voices : two centuries of Canadian garden writing and served as editor as Landscape Architectural Review / Revue d’architecture de paysage from 1987-1992. During her career, Ms. Crawford has been active with many professional associations, such as the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects. She served as its Registrar and Secretary (1996-1997) and was appointed as layperson on council (1994-1998). Prior to that time, she was a member of the Sharon Temple Board of Trustees and Sharon Temple Master Plan Steering Committee (1987-1990) and she was a member and historical landscape advisor for the Grange (Board) Committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario (1986-1991). She has also volunteered her services as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Allan Gardens Revitalization Study (2000), and as the Recording Secretary for the Friends of the Archives of Ontario (2002-present), and has served as a board member and newsletter editor of the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants (1998-2002). Further, she has been a landscape and garden book reviewer for Canadian Book Review Annual since 1981and an honourary member of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects since 1993.
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Fonds consists of research files concerning the history and heritage value of three prominent psychiatric hospitals in Ontario, namely the hospital in Whitby, the hospital in Etobicoke, and the hospital in downtown Toronto. Assessments of the heritage value of the hospitals and their properties were undertaken in relation to various proposed re-development projects. Fonds includes photocopies and/or transcripts of various archival records such as maps and photographs with accompanying archival request slips, copies of archival finding aids, holograph and typescript research notes, materials related to heritage assessment studies for which P. Crawford was a consultant, architectural proposals, copies of presentations that were given at conferences with accompanying programmes, newsclippings, press releases, fliers, articles, correspondence, a copy of Ms. Crawford’s catalogue for her library of garden books, photographs, and architectural drawings. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Research files concerning Ontario Hospital, Whitby Research files concerning Ontario Hospital, Mimico Research files concerning Ontario Hospital, Toronto Research files concerning various other psychiatric institutions Photographic records Architectural records
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Fonds was donated by Ms. Crawford in 2002.
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Detailed finding aid is available in hard-copy, MS Word, and database formats.
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One box of uncatalogued materials from CAMH Archivist John Court and Architect Arthur Allen are topically related to this fonds. Please see the Archivist for details regarding the location and content of these materials.
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Original documents date from [between 1980 and 2002]. Documents that date from before this time period are photocopies or other reproductions that were made [between 1980 and 2002].
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Ontario Hospital, Whitby was first known as the Whitby Hospital for the Insane when its construction began in 1912. During the First World War, it was temporarily used as a hospital for soldiers and veterans and was then known as the Ontario Military Hospital. The hospital was opened as a psychiatric facility in October of 1919. At that time it was officially renamed as Ontario Hospital, Whitby, a name that it kept until 1968, when it was renamed as Whitby Psychiatric Hospital. In Oct. 1994, on the occasion of its 75th birthday, this hospital was again renamed, this time as Whitby Mental Health Centre.
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Ontario Hospital, Mimico was first known as the Mimico Branch Asylum, a name that was in use from its inception in 1890 until 1907. In 1907 it became known as the Hospital for the Insane, Mimico. In 1919, this hospital became known as Ontario Hospital, Mimico and later as Ontario Hospital, New Toronto. It was renamed again in May 1965 as the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital.
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Ontario Hospital, Toronto was first known as the Provincial Lunatic Asylum when it was opened in 1850. It became known as the Toronto Asylum for the Insane in 1871, and was renamed again in 1907 as the Toronto Hospital for the Insane. In 1919, like other provincially run hospitals that were renamed at this time, this hospital was renamed as Ontario Hospital, Toronto. The hospital was again renamed in 1966 as the Queen Street Mental Health Centre (QSMHC). During the time of the pending merger of this hospital with the Addiction Research Foundation, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and the Donwood Institute in 1997, the temporary name of Addiction and Mental Health Services Corporation was adopted. At the time of the merger in March of 1998, the newly amalgamated institution became known as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Each of its sites was further identified by street name (i.e., Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Queen Street Site).
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References: Carson, Sarah. Archival finding aid for selected series and sub-series from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Queen Street Site and the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 2004. Fonds description of Pleasance Kaufmann Crawford fonds, held by the City of Toronto Archives (fonds 232). Whitby Mental Health Centre. [3 July] 2003. Whitby Mental Health Centre – History. Accessed 21 August, 2005. Available from http://www.wmhc2.com/history.htm.