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[Axle]

The Muskoka Regional Centre started off as a TB Sanitarium back in 1847, a group of well-to-do business men lobbied both the Canadian and Ontario governments to build such a location. The small town of Gravenhurst, ON was chosen to house the first one in Canada.

The Gage Complex (featured in this thread) was completed in 1922 after the original building burned in a fire. Into the 1940s and 1950s treatment of TB greatly improved and could be done in existing urban hospitals. In the 1960s the property was transferred to the Ontario Department of Health as a satellite campus for the Ontario Hospital School at Orillia (later Huronia Regional Centre).

Operations continued with the MRC hosting around 300 patients with a staff of the same number. Throughout the late 1970s the process of de-institutionalization became the hot button topic and the MRC was closed in 1994. Throughout the interm years the place saw use as training grounds for OPP K-9 and SWAT units (I have chatted with officers in the K-9 unit on the site).

However now it looks like the place has even been abandoned by them, and the property is now owned by the nearby Ontario Fire College.

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For all the photos I've taken of this place go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/axle814...th/4917313092/

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The interior shots definitely make the series.

[Axle]

The Film Shots...

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Kiev 88 - MC Biometar 80mm 1:2.8 - Ilford Delta 100
I really need to set my focus for mid-frame, and tighten up the aperture.