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FOUND BLOOD | Exploring Abandoned Century Manor Insane Asylum with Carlo Paolozza & DDOGGVlogs
Century Manor is a historic structure built in 1884 and the only remaining element of the asylum.
The Victoria Gothic building on 500 acres property that remained in use until the 1980s.
Originally called East House, it served various roles:
- home to treatment program for alcoholics
- forensic psychiatry program
- school and treatment program for adolescents
- It was briefly a museum, but it closed in 1995 and has since become vacant.
All the other buildings relating to the asylum have been demolished and remains under provincial ownershi
The Hamilton Asylum for the Insane, also called the Ontario Hospital and later the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, was initially intended to be an asylum for ‘inebriates’. However there was more need for beds for the mentally disturbed and this became its sole concern. The Hamilton Asylum for the Insane began operation in 1876 on 529 acres of land with 202 patients. The two closest asylums were Toronto and London. The first structure, the Barton Building, opened in 1876 with Dr. R. Bucke, internationally known for his humane treatment of the mentally ill, as the first Medical Superintendent. The hospital grew quickly to meet the expanding health needs of the province.
Until well into the 20th century it was accessible only by a dirt road and was therefore quite isolated. However it was largely self-sufficient with the farm, on which the hospital stood, providing all the necessary food. Cattle, chickens and pigs as well as fruits and vegetables all came from the farm. It had its own bakery, butcher's shop, greenhouse, root cellar, milk-processing house, tailor's shop, sewing room, upholstery shop, fire hall, power house, a fleet of vehicles, skating and curling rinks, a bowling green, tennis courts and chapel. In 1890 it housed 915 patients and employed 119 people. The Asylum Ball was an annual event in the Hamilton community for many years. Its guest list was a who’s who of Hamilton society.
By 1909 it contained 529 acres and facilities for 1,200 patients and staff. Renamed the Ontario Hospital, Hamilton, in 1929, it was recognized as the best asylum in Ontario. Advances in the treatment of mental illness led to significant changes. By 1956, all but 86 acres of the farmland that made the hospital self-sufficient and provided physical therapy for patients, had been auctioned off for residential and Community College development. In 1968, the institution was renamed the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital (HPH).
Around 1902, it established a training school for psychiatric nursing which was accredited in 1924. It graduated over 240 nurses before it closed in 1956. The facility also provided training in psychiatric nursing to nurses from the other city hospitals. The Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital was owned and operated for more than 124 years by the Ontario government. In November 2000 it was transferred to the authority of the St. Joseph's Healthcare and has been renamed the Centre for Mountain Health Services.
With the construction of new buildings, three of the century-old original buildings were demolished except for East House, built in 1884 and renamed Century Manor in 1972. It continued as a Day Patient facility until it was closed in 1995. As the last of the original Hamilton Asylum Victorian facilities and one of the few remaining in the province, it was designated a heritage building under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1997. The era of provincial hospitals ended in 2000 with the administration transferred to community hospitals. HPH was renamed St. Joseph's Centre for Mountain Health Care Services. With extensive construction, completed in 2014, it became the Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre for Integrated Healthcare -an innovative facility designed for mental health and addiction treatment, research and education, combined with medical services.
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originally called East Hawks
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and also
it was briefly a museum
all of these other buildings related
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what's up guys here we go get another
free tog Rafi adventure I'm joined right
here by D Dawg vlogs links down below
you know the man you BC urbex Carlo
Carlo pilosa random riders not here
today that's okay
here we are century manor apparently one
of the most haunted sites in canada i
don't do haunted [ __ ] but this place is
apparently one of the most haunted sites
in canada so what are we gonna do cue
the music
cue the intro see you guys on the other
side
[Applause]
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okay guys here we go we're on the top
floor here I'm trying out my new gimbal
with my fancy new light I got a whole
new setup on my camera here today so
we're gonna check this out
going back this way her back our lows
got his mask on me I don't have a mask
on
neither does d-dog that's okay so this
place I'll drop some history and through
voiceover as we watch the video try and
find some historic photos and I'll try
not to talk too much because some of you
guys don't like when I talk too much but
this used to be a part of a very very
large psychiatric hospital
up on the mountain here in this city and
they demolished the entire psychiatric
hospital except for this one building
there was a short period of time I
believe that it was also used as a
museum but that closed down and it's got
Heritage status so they can't demolish
it but that's a as it stands right now
they don't know what to do with this
place so as you can see it is in very
rough shape lots of decay
lots of peeling paint ceiling is
crumbling all kinds of crap just thrown
all over the place so this place is no
secret everybody knows about sensory
Manor and if you didn't know about it
before now well now you do
and I'm not exactly sure what the
purpose of this building was when it was
an active hospital
this hallways awesome check this out
guys check that herbux Carlo guys safety
first safety first here we go what I'm
gonna do right now I'll show you guys a
picture of me and rhythm rider standing
right here ready go
and there it is guys as a picture of
riddim writer and I here a couple years
ago maybe a year ago
I don't know so here's what I'm guessing
this was a patient room you got a drop
ceiling up there and you got your lights
lots of decay and a nice window what we
got here
we got a sink in this room guys freezing
my urbex balls off in here in UBC look
at the curl on Carlos hair watch right
there he's got a little curl on the top
of his head UVC rock and the mask
[Laughter]
you know what guys I think I think tdawg
is right that looks like real blood was
it a virgin goat maybe maybe not anymore
so there you go guys santanico pentagram
inverted pentagram with candles made
from Carlos blood yeah
Carlos virgin gull blood
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that's a pretty cool room there with the
windows ubc you got to get the gimbal
this thing is amazing watch this ready
watch what it does you want to look up
we're gonna look up ready up you go down
yeah down you go watch this now you want
to look to the left okay oh wait I gotta
push this buddy look to the left I'm
going to the left watch this what's this
what what back around there you go you
can even connect it to your phone my
bluetooth and you can you can set the
zoom in and out
as well as a button here that only works
if you connect either to their app on
your phone with Bluetooth and then you
can zoom in and out yep all right what
are we going did he go up or down I'm
gonna go up guys wait till you guys see
the tunnels the tunnels are crazy
see this guy's where is it
be respectful okay lessons from a car CD
artist be respectful love of the windows
here these are pretty cool man I'm so
cold
my fingers are just frozen right now
what's in here
pink room this is the pink room guys
same windows pink wall now try and go
slower you guys usually yell at me in my
videos because they go too fast and then
you know because I talk too much I hate
when people do that
when they take their Instagram handle on
the wall stupid this does appear to be
the room where you sign your name I'm
not gonna sign my name
yes this is some art right here hey guys
Tommy 9:05 here is Redrum guys upside
down cross this is the satanic moon for
sure
praise Him praise who praise Satan
that's crazy
okay guys I found the door we're gonna
go downstairs now
after that scary murder red rubbery okay
somebody doesn't want us to be here see
that where is this gonna take us guys
okay I hear how I'm gonna do cincin some
of you like when I talk that's all you
don't I'm gonna show up now and I'm
gonna play some music
all right so we'll play some music I'm
not gonna talk and we're just gonna
explore this place together all right so
we're gonna start right here this is the
main front door cue the music
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the Hamilton asylum for the insane also
called the Ontario hospital and later
the Hamilton psychiatric hospital was
initially intended to be an asylum for
inebriate however there was more need
for beds for the mentally disturbed and
this became its sole concern the
Hamilton asylum for the insane began
operation in 1876 on 529 acres of land
with 202 patients the two closest asylum
to the Toronto and London Ontario the
first structure named the Barton
building opened in 1876 until well into
the 20th century it was accessible only
by a dirt road and was therefore quite
isolated however it was largely
self-sufficient with the farm on which
the hospital stood providing all the
necessary food cattle chickens and pigs
as well as fruits and vegetables all
came from this farm and had its own
bakery butcher shop greenhouse root
cellar milk processing house tailor shop
sewing room pulse tree shop and more in
1890 it housed 915 patients and employed
119 people by 1909
it contained five hundred and
twenty-nine acres and facilities for
1,200 patients and staff renamed to the
Ontario Hospital Hamilton in 1929 it was
recognized as the best asylum in Ontario
advances in the treatment of mental
illness led to significant changes by
1956 all but 86 acres of the farmland
that made this hospital self-sufficient
and provided physical therapy for
patients had been auctioned off for
residential and community college
development in 1968 the institution was
renamed the Hamilton psychiatric
hospital around 1902 it established a
training school for psychiatric nursing
which was accredited in 1924 it
graduated over 240 nurses before it
closed in 1956 the Hamilton psychiatric
hospital was owned and operated from
more than 124 years by the Ontario
government
with the construction of new buildings
three of the century-old buildings were
demolished except for this building
which I'm in now which was called the
East house built in 1884 and renamed
century manager built in 1884 and
renamed century Manor in 1972 they
continued as add a paging facility until
it was finally closed in 1995 as the
last of the original Hamilton Asylum
Victorian facilities and one of the few
remaining in the province it was
designated a heritage building under the
Ontario Heritage Act in 1997 the era of
provincial hospitals ended in 2000 with
the administration transferred to
community hospitals back in the early
1980s the building called century manor
had become a museum open to the public
within this building artifacts were on
display of the early years of how
patients were treated for their diseases
of the money in this museum there were
plenty of artifacts to be seen from very
old wheelchairs dated back to the late
1800s a display case with handcuffs pins
carts etc some brain samples that were
still preserved in a jar a cage that was
noted as the squirrel cage where some
patients went into because they would
just walk around in circles old bathtubs
and showers where patients used to be
dunked in cold water a machine that
looks like a record player only to be
found that it was really an electroshock
therapy machine some of the surgical
tools that were used back in the 1800s
like the Utica crib that had a mannequin
that showed how the patient would have
been locked up inside the crib as a
means to be restrained century manor is
a historic structure built in 1884 and
is the only remaining element of a much
larger Asylum the Victorian Gothic
building on 500 acres of property that
remained in use until the 1980s
originally called East House it served
various roles such as home into a
treatment program for alcoholics a
forensic psychiatry program and also a
school and treatment program for
adolescents it was briefly a museum but
it closed in 1995 and has since become
vacant and abandoned
okay guys we're gonna head down to the
tunnels now the tunnels are super long
but we're not gonna do them all because
we'll be down here forever
and Carlo just threw up so we don't want
to leave the UBC alone for too long but
now there's two different basement
levels so this is level one but I think
we actually want to go down one more all
the way down think I've only beli been
down here once so let's see what happens
no I was wrong oh wait a minute what's
down here I think we've actually got to
go back up to that upper level we're in
some kind of a dungeon down here guys
all right yeah I think it's what's that
in here oh [ __ ] Wow bread kind of new
looking too isn't it yeah
all right so I think the tunnels are up
one more guys because what's wrong here
we go
now I'm gonna go to the right all right
okay guys deep in the basement somewhere
down here there is a super long tunnel
that goes under the city to another
hospital I never actually walked it
though d-dog went upstairs to get some
stuff for his video okay guys so what we
got down here there's a lot of pipes and
rooms used for various things here we go
take a look here so maybe I should have
went left and that way to take me to the
tunnels not said I'm gonna get in and go
deep into the tunnels but I just want to
sort of see it you know so I got a duck
down here bumping my head here this is
more just storage meet dee-dawg back
upstairs go meet UBC and wrap it up how
you guys liking this place you guys like
these creepy basements throw me some
comments while I'm walking around guys
let me know what you think no this just
creepy
Hey oh sorry guys let's head back
upstairs I'll stop talking and I'll play
some music while I'm going back upstairs
I'm gonna head up over towards the door
you got it that we came in
okay guys that wraps this one up let's
wrap this one up with a little bit of a
photo gallery maybe I can throw in some
historic photos if I can find them play
some music
show some pictures and move on prop me a
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