colony farm park
Kwikwetlem culture is similar to other Aboriginal people, especially other St�:l� and Northwest Coast groups, they are a unique people with specific cultural traditions and political interests unlike anyone else's. They take their name from the red fish that historically traveled up the Coquitlam River. Kwikwetlem means "Red Fish Up The River". Their elder's stories explain that they have always been there. Archaeology confirms continuous occupation of their traditional territory for at least 9,000 years, since the last ice age.
Forensic Psychiatry is a specialized branch of psychiatry where the medical and the legal worlds overlap. It is a fascinating, multi-dimensional sub-specialty that involves the application of medical psychiatric expertise in legal contexts.
Colony farm was one of BC's most outstanding success It began in 1900 when the province established Essondale, a mental hospital, and acquired 1000 acres of fertile river land for a farm to provide food and rehabilitative labor for patients. For over 70 years the farm flourished.
