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  • Huronia - cemetery - IMG_0056.JPG
    Cemetery plaque that reads: This monument has been erected in memory of those developmentally handicapped people who lived and died within the community of the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia, From 1887 to 1971, more than 2000 people were laid to rest.

  • Huronia - cemetery - IMG_0055.JPG
    close view of Huronia Regional Centre Memorial Cemetery plaque in the cemetery

  • Huronia - cemetery - IMG_0054.JPG
    Huronia Regional Centre Memorial Cemetery plaque in the cemetery

  • Large Beige Bathroom
    A photograph of a large bathroom. The toilets, bathtubs, showers, and sinks are removed. There is a metal door painted light blue in the right of the photo's frame. Floor is dark beige tiles, walls are light beige tiles with a light brown tiled trim to the centre and white drywall to the top. The spot on the floor where the bathtub was is water damaged and rusted. On one wall are two red framed safety instructions.

  • Larry's Room Sign
    White wall sign that reads LARRY

  • Wooden Bristle Brush and First Aid Supply in Bathroom
    Wooden bristle brush and first aid supply on a white painted wooden shelf attached to quarry tiled wall. There is a brown electricity outlet without a plate on the wall.

  • Tiled Wall with Beige Breaker Panel
    Quarry tiled wall with beige breaker panel with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and &LA, BAU SUNRISE AU2 in black stencil on the tiles. Wall is tiled to just after the midpoint then painted light blue to the top. Floor is terrazzo.

  • Kitchen with Stainless Steel Boxed Shelf
    Kitchen. Walls are quarry tile to the midpoint then painted light blue to the top. There is a large, boxed stainless steel shelf running across the full length of one of the walls and a stainless steel range hood in the foreground, There is a large brown door with a window that has butchers paper taped across it. The floor is cement and damaged.

  • Pipe Room Walls
    Detail of the pipe room also known as the steam room. Layers of scratch and smudge marks on light blue wooden door. Door is scratched down to the wood. Some of the scratch marks have been covered in a section of light pink paint that is dripping down the door.

  • Narrow Hall of Pipes
    Pipe room between rooms. Also known as steam room. Wall on the left is cinderblocks painted light blue. Wall on the right is mustard to the midpoint with a brown trim and then white to the ceiling. There are multiple pipes in this space made of copper and steel. The space is dusty and dirty.

  • Bathroom with Two Toilets Ripped Out
    Bathroom. Quarry tiles on floor and walls. Two toilets have been ripped out, leaving holes in the wall and floor. One hole is plastered over while the other is a hole remains open. Part of a window is visible in the left frame of the photo.

  • Gymnasium with Multicoloured Striped Walls
    Gymnasium with blue, green, red and yellow stripes across bottom of walls and four three-pane windows with wire mesh panels. There is a freestanding training dummy with sign above that reads: C.E.W. use only; do not strike, and an illustration of a taser on it.

  • Gymnasium with Basketball Net
    Gymnasium with blue, green, red and yellow stripes across bottom of the walls, a basketball net and exercise equipment. There are six three-pane windows with wire mesh panels across them.

  • Green Hallway
    Huronia survivor standing in a green hallway being recorded by a woman holding a camera and microphone

  • Room with Industrial Metal Shelving
    Light mint green room with industrial metal shelving on left side and window in the background. The ceiling is new white acoustic tiles with a few tiles missing. The floor is beige cement.

  • Room with Two Long Service Desks
    Room with light mint green walls, two long wooden reception or service desks and three windows with transoms in the background. The ceiling is new white acoustic tiles. The floor is grey linoleum.

  • Vision Panel
    Mint green metal door with small square vision panel.

  • First Aid Station
    First Aid Station room with sink, white countertop above wooden cupboards, and a green door on the right with First Aid Station and Danger Oxygen signs.

  • Huronia - exterior - IMG_0015.JPG
    view of Shingle Bay from the Huronia building with multiple trees, a stairway, parking lot and street lamp

  • Bathroom Being Renovated
    Bathroom being renovated, fallen wood, fallen sink. Pipes are visible. Floor is grey linoleum. Walls are white with vestiges of yellow paint on the bottom half. There is sanded plywood on parts of the walls. There is a window.

  • Huronia - buildings 13.jpg
    Building on the grounds. Building is red brick with grey cement basement level visible. Windows are brown framed. Well kept green lawn in the foreground with trees.

  • Kitchen Cabinets and Orange Tiles
    Wooden kitchen cabinets and countertop trimmed in metal with orange tiled wall and a mop bucket placed on the countertop beside the sink and a plastic soap dispenser.

  • Kitchen with Orange Tiled Walls
    kitchen with orange tiled walls, a radiator in the forefront under a lengthwise window with dark green curtains, with wooden cupboards and a metal trimmed countertop in the background. Floor is terrazzo.

  • Damaged Industrial Kitchen Sink
    Terrazzo floor, orange tiled walls and a damaged metal industrial kitchen sink with three sinks and a drying counter. The sink's legs are rusted.

  • Guide to Cottages
    A map on wall with arrows to the resident canteen, cottage K, personnel, cottage A, main stores, complex T, cottage C, Complex S, Cottage M, Cottage D, Cottage R, Complex G, and laundry