Saskatchewan’s first mental hospital closing its doors after 100 years

NORTH BATTLEFORD — At its peak, the massive red-brick complex with a scenic view of the North Saskatchewan River was a community unto itself.
Saskatchewan Hospital, which first opened to patients in 1914, had its own barns, cattle, grain field, school and chapel — even a curling club and legion.
For more than a century, it has provided care for thousands of mentally ill patients who were untreatable, abandoned and alone.
“We get the worst of the worst individuals in the provinc