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The dark history of the Charles Camsell Hospital is explored in a new documentary that was screened for the first time Monday to a sold-out audience.

From 1946 to 1968, the hospital was the site of a dark period of segregated health care in Canada. Many indigenous people were sent to the tuberculosis sanatorium, where they received different treatment than other Canadians.

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“It (the Camsell) just closed 20 years ago, so it’s still in recent memory for a lot of people,” said Miranda Jimmy, program manager at the Edmonton Heritage Council. “But people don’t often know the history longer than that, (like) the fact that it was one of the largest Indian hospitals in Canada, that it was a segregated health system that ran parallel to residential schools.”

A second screening of the movie, titled Camsell, has been added for Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Whitemud Crossing library branch. There will be another screening at the Provincial Archives of Alberta in November, then the film will be posted on the heritage council’s website, edmontonheritage.ca.