Ontario Shores celebrates a century of care

By Melissa Quinlan Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) is celebrating 100 years of helping individuals living with mental illness. The organization’s journey officially began in 1911 when architect James Govan consulted with psychiatrists, physicians and government officials to develop a design for a new mental health centre on the shores of Lake Ontario. During World War I it served temporarily as the Ontario Military Hospital, a convalescent home for wounded veterans before shifting back to mental health and officially opening as the Ontario Hospital for the Insane on October 23, 1919. The hospital has had several names over the years and in 2009 rebranded to Ontario Shores. For the past century, Ontario Shores has provided psychiatric health care for people living with complex mental illness. The hospital has

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