Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques.
Queen Mary Hospital
Photos by Alan L Brown - March 2004
Here, in a patch of green, at the south end of the West Park Healthcare Centre's visitors' parking lot at the west end of Buttonwood Drive is an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque. Here's what it says:
The first sanatorium in the world devoted exclusively to the treatment of children with tuberculosis, Queen Mary Hospital was opened in 1913. It formed part of a complex with the Toronto Hospital for Consumptives, which had been established in 1904, and continued that institution's pioneering programs in the care of children. In 1923 its services were expanded with the addition of a new wing and the opening of a school under the supervision of the Toronto Board of Education. The incidence of tuberculosis decreased during the following decades, fewer patients and declining use finally leading to closure of the hospital in 1970. Four years later the building was demolished and West Park Hospital, a chronic care and rehabilitation centre, was erected on this site.
Plaque Location Co-ordinates: N 43 41.286 W 79 30.478
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Posted March 15, 2009
I was in Queen Mary's hospital in 1965 with a bunch of other Inuit...I wanted to see the old picture of it before it was taken out. Do you have the old picture? There was a circle of road, I remember, I was only 6 years old...
My e-mail is: takpannie2498@rogers.com
My name is Kunnuk E7-1615 but now I am Kunnuk Takpannie orginally from Apex Hill in Iqaluit...but I live in Ottawa. I need the address I want to go and see it....
Posted September 12, 2008
is there a 15 weston road ?
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