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Weyburn Mental Hospital - Haunted Grounds?

Weyburn mental hospital was demolished by the government. It was a very sad day as they did not save any part of it...correction, they saved a couple small limestone pieces and have done nothing with them since. In fact they have done nothing to protect the pieces or create any historic memorial to the hospital. I predict they will slap a quick plaque on the ground stating the mental hospital was there and it will most likely get stolen in the future and then nothing. I don't blame the city who demolished the building, I blame the government for their lack of preserving history in this province. There are so many examples in this province of the government destroying history in the name of “progress”. It was not long after the hospital was demolished that they started a housing development, which renders the question – would you want to live in a house that sits on the grounds of an old mental hospital? I will agree that it is a beautiful location – sitting on the edge of th