B.C. government to compensate more Woodlands survivors

Former residents of Woodlands provincial mental institution, who lived there before 1974 will now be compensated for the abuse they suffered, the province announced Saturday.

The survivors will each receive $10,000 ex-gratia, meaning the payments are voluntary and don’t admit liability. 

Because of a legal loophole, those survivors were excluded from a 2010 B.C. Supreme Court settlement, which compensated about 900 residents who lived in the institution in New Westminster, B.C. after 1974.

B.C. Premier John Horgan said in a statement that