janper44
Registered: December 2009
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This was Asile Ritchot, an orphanage founded and operated from 1904 to 1948 by the Soeurs de Misericorde, the Sisters of Mercy, to house the orphaned infants of poor families and unwed mothers.
When the Province of Manitoba took over the care of orphans in 1948, Asile Ritchot closed its doors, reopening in 1954 as an Oblate Seminary.
The Oblates vacated this seminary in approximately 1970 and the X-Kalay Foundation took over the complex shortly thereafter. The X-Kalay Foundation evolved through the Saint Norbert Foundation to its present name of the Behavioural Health Foundation.
The Behavioural Health Foundation provides long term residential addictions treatment programming for men, women, teens and family units experiencing a variety of addiction problems and co-occurring mental health concerns.
For me the connection with the Foundation ran from the day it first opened in September 1971 until I retired in September 1997. I lived here... I worked here... I was even married here... for a quarter of a century it was my life and through those years and much more nowadays it has become a photographic subject for me.
This photograph was taken somewhere between 1974 and 1984 (I can tell that because I can see behind the red car on the left my Challenger that I owned between '74 and '84. I was using the chrome air filter of Boyd Barber's bike (the fellow in the background) to capture the Foundation as it looked before a year long renovation in 1985-1986.
CS3 shadow/highlight (50,0,20)
Kodachrome 64
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