Ground breaks on new Anne Oake Recovery Centre in Winnipeg [Video]

Ground has officially broken for the construction of the Anne Oake Recovery Centre.

Officials gathered Tuesday at the future site – Snow Street and Dartmouth Drive behind Victoria General Hospital – to mark the first steps of the project.

The centre will provide treatment to women battling addiction and is dedicated to Anne Oake – the matriarch behind the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, which was named after her son following his death from an overdose.

Anne passed away a week before the first cohort graduated from the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre.

“I just wanted to really shout out to the important work of Scott and Darcy (Oake) and the whole family, to reflect on the journey that brought us through your important work at the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre. And now today, I think it just represents the best of who we are as people, as Manitobans, as Canadians,” said …