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Inglewood is a residential neighbourhood in north west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Between 1946 and 1996, Edmonton's Charles Camsell Hospital was located in the neighbourhood. The hospital was named after Canadian geologist and map maker Charles Camsell.

The neighbourhood is bounded on the north by 118 Avenue, on the south by 111 Avenue, on the west by Groat Road, and on the east by the a former Canadian National Railway right of way.

In 1946, Governor General of Canada Lord Alexander opened The Charles Camsell tuberculosis hospital in Edmonton. This hospital, which was located in the Inglewood Area, was named after Charles Camsell (1876-1958), a a geologist and map-maker dedicated to the exploration of Canada's North.

Between 1945 and 1967 the hospital operated an occupational therapy program for aboriginal patients. In 1990, the hospital donated a collection of over 400 arts and crafts items made by patients in the program to the Royal Alberta Museum.

The hospital was closed in 1996, though is still active to this day. Not with patients and nurses, but with local teens, gangs and the like. Many visit the place in hopes of seeing something supernatural. Some believe that the old Camsell hospital is haunted, the souls of sick aboriginals who died there still wandering the halls.

There are four schools in the neighbourhood.

• Edmonton Public School System
  • Inglewood Elementary School
  • Westmount Junior High School

• Edmonton Catholic School System
  • St. Andrew Catholic School

• Other
  • Norwood Chinese School

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