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  • Huronia Boiler Room Yellow Pipes
    Huronia site boiler room ceiling pipes. The pipes are yellow and repaired in one spot with white putty and tape. A red valve is visible. The ceiling is vaulted and light comes from windows at the top.

  • Quarry Tiled Wall in Huronia Kitchen Hall
    Detail of a red quarry tiled wall in the Huronia kitchen hall with printed directions: 4 Bau Sunrise Au 2, 5 Pav, 6 Inf. These are abbreviations for resident lines to collect meals. Also visible on the wall are metal electrical outlets.

  • Blue Door with Padlock Hasp and Louvers
    A light blue door with four louvers in each corner. Louvers are designed to allow air to circulate while keeping the door shut. There is a hasp on the door. A hasp is the hardware required for a padlock. The knob on the light blue door is brass.

  • Huronia Site Kitchen Hall
    The Huronia site kitchen hall. The hall has been stripped of kitchen equipment. The floor is cement. The walls are quarry tiles a third of the way up, with the remainder painted sky blue. There are multiple grease vents, including ones that hang in the middle of the room attached to a large silver industrial hood. Industrial pendant lights hang from the high ceiling, which is also sky blue. There is a brown kitchen door with butcher's paper taped to its window at the furthest end of the room, with two large white fire extinguishers to its left.

  • Partitioned Cottage Interior
    A partitioned cottage interior. The partitions are white painted wood on the lower half and glass on top half. Some partitions feature flimsy blue curtains. The walls are beige to the hallway point and white to the ceiling. The ceiling is small square white acoustic panels, and has white fans and opaque white glass ceiling lamps. The floor is terrazzo.

  • Huronia Site Hallway
    Huronia site hallway. A dim hallway with a damaged red linoleum tiled floor. The walls are light blue to the midway and white to the ceiling. There are doorways down the hallway. On the left wall is a red support bar. Above the bar is what appears to be a framed directory and map of the institution. The ceiling is plaster and damaged in spots, with fluorescent tube lights. There are two red lit exits signs. One red lit exit sign is above a doorway on the right wall, the other is above a fire exit with a window at the end of the hallway. This window on the fire exit door provides the dim light in the hallway.

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    Building on the grounds. Detail of the administrative red brick building's archway and windows, some rectangular and some arched, with white frames.

  • Huronia - buildings 18.JPG
    A detail of one of the cottages. It is a red brick building with a white doorway and white framed windows. An evergreen tree is in the foreground.

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    Huronia site cemetery sign

  • Black Metal Plaque on Grounds
    A black metal plaque with silver text on Huronia grounds that reads: "From 1876 to 2009 many thousands of children and adults with developmental disabilities and other conditions resided in the wards, called "cottages", of this institution. In 2013, the Government of Ontario issued an apology to the former residents for the conditions over time." The plaque includes a French translation of this text.

  • Straight Jacket Eyelet
    White straight jacket up close on brass eyelet detail.

  • Crib Mattress Tag
    Navy blue and cream mattress tag with an image of a crawling smiling baby. The tag reads: "H.S.C. Crib Mattress by Simmons Limited."

  • HRC Switchboard
    Switch board in the artifact room. Options include carpenter, spch+hearing, area 7 nurse, plumber.

  • HRC Switchboard 2
    Switch board in the artifact room: five labeled rows, lined with lights, with one outlet plugged in.

  • Crib
    Front view of crib with white metal bars on casters. Cream and blue striped mattress pad. Head and base boards slope at corners.

  • Brass skeleton key
    Brass skeleton key from artifact room

  • Santa Claus Craft
    Artistic image of a Santa Claus silhouette holding sack, leaping over pine trees. Full moon in the background. Black and cream colours.

  • Harold Dougall Wears Band Hat
    White man with wire glasses, a blue vest, and bright orange shirt, wearing a royal blue and gold marching band hat with a silver maple leaf emblem. He adjusts the chinstrap with his middle finger.

  • Harold Dougall Wears Police Hat
    White man with wire glasses, a blue vest, and bright orange shirt, putting on a police style brimmed navy blue and yellow hat.

  • Vintage Rocking Horse Head
    Wooden rocking horse head, circular in shape with handle. Face and hair painted on in profile. Trophies in background.

  • Harold Dougall Holds Boot
    White man with wire glasses, a blue vest, and bright orange shirt, holding a boot with laces.

  • Marching Band Hats
    Six royal blue and gold marching band hats with a silver maple leaf emblem. Two loose and two bagged, stacked broad police style brimmed navy blue and yellow hats. All hats are lined up in two rows on a blue linoleum floor. Four trumpets and a blue banner along the border of the picture.

  • Adapted Spoons
    Two spoons on a dark wood table. One is metal and bent, with a smooth black handle. One has a short ribbed handle, thicker at the base. Also on the table: two metal watering cans, post-it notes and permanent marker.

  • Harold Dougall with Crib
    A white man in profile with wire glasses, in vest and orange shirt. He is standing to the right of a white metal crib with bars, on casters. Blue and cream striped mattress. Larger metal crib cots on background.

  • Setting up the Sound Room
    A speaker is placed on the wall of a blue room located next to the green Sound Room at the Huronia Regional Centre. The floor is beige linoleum.