Given your take on the "good old days," FortierMark, I guess I must be imagining those massive psychiatric hospitals across western Canada, in places like Selkirk, Brandon, Edmonton/Fort Sask, Estevan, North Battleford, Ponoka, and all. Or, if those facilities are really there, then they must have built them with all the surplus money available in those days, just in case they needed them.

It seems to me that there must have been a massive program to build those facilities in the first half of the 20th Century. For some reason.