In the dispatch “Hospitals of the Mind” (Geist 66), Stephen Osborne shares his thoughts regarding twenty-four photos of Essondale, the mental institution in Coquitlam, B.C., taken in 1913 on the occasion of its official opening. In 1966, Essondale was renamed Riverview Hospital and in the mid- to late 1970s, when I was still young enough to be learning the order of the months of the year, I was taken on my first visit to see my father at Crease Clinic, one of the buildings at Riverview.