These two would have made great exploration buildings if still around.
Toronto Central Prison housed 336 beds for male prisoners between 1873 and 1915. The facilities were not known for their best practices. They were known for extreme brutality, denying medical treatment, and the creepiest of all: nighttime burials on the prison grounds.
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The Mercer Reformatory Mental Asylum for Women
The reformatory opened in 1872 and for most of its tenure, patients were “reformed” into proper Victorian women – obedience and subservience were the ideals instilled between these walls. As the twentieth century neared it’s midpoint, rumours began to surface about mistreatment and even medical experimentation at Mercer. Eugenics was still all the rage back then and some doctors used the female patients in their research into what makes a “bad” woman. The government began investigating the institution in the 1960s and found they couldn’t turn a blind-eye to the mistreatment and dungeon-like conditions. The hospital was shut down and now Allan Lamport Stadium sits on the former site. The only remaining structure is the superintendent’s house, at King Street West and Fraser Avenue. And of course “Liberty Street”, for which Liberty Village was named, was the first street the men and women walked down once they were freed
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Windowless cubicle in the basement of Mercer is a detention cell.
Dentention cells in the basement of Mercer Reformatory are toured by government officials and members of the press. These are five-by-seven windowless cubicles with painted brick walls furnished only with iron beds and chamber pots. In foreground is lounge with television set.
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