Fort William Sanatorium was a

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Fort William, Ontario Fort William was a city in Ontario, Canada, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Since th ...

, today part of the

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. It opened in 1935 as a tuberculosis treatment centre for settlers, adding 20 government-funded beds for Indigenous patients in 1941. Fort William was partially used as a provincial school from 1944 on to 1971, and a day school for the local Indigenous population between 1950 and 1953. It is unclear whether the hospital was fully racially segregated at any point during its operation, or whether settler and Indigenous patients were treated in different wings or areas of the hospital at the same time. It later provided treatment for people with other disorders, including physical and mental handicaps. In a 1953 article in the medical journal ''Chest'', B. Pollak of the Fort William Sanatorium described the use of planography, also known as

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. In 1974, Fort William Sanatorium was renamed

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. The Mental Retardation Unit Walter P. Hogarth Memorial Hospital Northwestern Regional Centre (as it is designated in the regulation) was designated as one of the "institutions under the ''Developmental Services Act'', ... for the purposes of section 157 of the ''Municipal Act''. The Northwestern Regional Centre was a residential facility for children and adults with an intellectual disability that operated from the 1960s until it was closed in 1994. Walter P. Hogarth Memorial Hospital was amalgamated with Westmount Hospital in 1980 as Hogarth-Westmount Hospital. In 2000, Hogarth-Westmount Hospital became part of

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nonprofit health care corporation. The Fort William Sanatorium building, later known as the Hogarth Building, was demolished in 1999. The patient case files of Fort William Sanatorium are preserved by the

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Hospital buildings completed in 1935 Hospitals in Ontario History of Thunder Bay 1974 disestablishments Tuberculosis sanatoria in Canada Demolished buildings and structures in Ontario Buildings and structures demolished in 1999 {{Canada-hospital-stub