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Dominion Orthopaedic Hospital
Dominion Orthopaedic Hospital
The Dominion Orthopaedic Hospital opened in Toronto, Canada, in 1919, in a building that had originally housed the National Cash Register Company's factory. The factory was converted into a hospital to serve soldiers who had been wounded in WW1. Some time in the 1920s, an unusual book was put together, titled "Illustrated Souvenir: Dominion Orthopaedic Hospital" and filled with snapshots of patients and staff, and an alphabetical list of names running into the thousands. The book's introduction by Dr. Charles Stanley McVicar states "It is much more interesting, and less fatiguing, to recall past experiences by pictures, pen pictures, photographs or sketches than by a studied review of dull statistics or accurate figures. So we present this pictorial review of the activities and personalities of the D.O.H. We present it with the consciousness that it may leave out much, and that it may fail in accuracy of proportion, but it may serve to commemorate a great Canadian Institution." This community draws from the "Illustrated Souvenir" and a variety of other sources to bring together patients and staff of the hospital.
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Born 1897
Died 1969
Canadian Expeditionary Force 91701 Corporal 1st Seige Battery
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Born 1887
Died 1977
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1893
Died 1944
Canadian Expeditionary Force 57703 Private
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Born 1882
Died 1954
Canadian Expeditionary Force 721010
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Born 1887
Died 1989
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1894
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2497529 Private Canadian Infantry 14th Railway Construction Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 142626 Private Canadian Infantry 76th Battalion
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Born 1881
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1880
Died 1921
Canadian Expeditionary Force 249929
Canadian Expeditionary Force 249929 Private 208th Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1971
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain 85th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 314726 Gunner Canadian Garrison Artillery
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Born 1892
Canadian Expeditionary Force 408756 Private 19th Canadians
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Born 1880
Died 1929
British Army Major Canadian Army Medical Corps
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major 15th Canadian Field Hospital [Duchess of Connaught Red Cross Hospital, Taplow]
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Born 1884
Died 1959
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps IODE Hospital for Officers, Hyde Park, London, England.
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Born 1880
Died 1937
Canadian Expeditionary Force 851011 Private Canadian Infantry 102nd Battalion
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Born 1885
Died 1931
Canadian Expeditionary Force 757329
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Born 1883
Died 1958
Canadian Expeditionary Force 472783 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 46th Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1921
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1090089
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