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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 1888
Died 1944
Canadian Expeditionary Force 138596 Private
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Canadian Expeditionary Force 769226 Private 18th Battalion
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Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 314726 Gunner Canadian Garrison Artillery
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Born 1884
Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1895
Died 1920
Canadian Expeditionary Force 140119
Canadian Expeditionary Force 140119 Private Canadian Infantry
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Born 1880
Canadian Expeditionary Force 9640 3rd Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1933
Canadian Expeditionary Force 602438 Private 34th Battalion
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Born 1882
Died 1932
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1888
Died 1920
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3081189
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3081189 Private Canadian Infantry
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Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 283068
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Born 1891
Canadian Expeditionary Force 283571
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Born 1891
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1887
Died 1921
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1039655 Sapper 3rd CRT
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Born 1879
Died 1920
Canadian Expeditionary Force 990
Canadian Expeditionary Force 990 Lance Sergeant Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1895
Died 1946
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1010252 Private
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Born 1888
Died 1936
Canadian Expeditionary Force 442734
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Born 1890
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1895
Died 1961
Canadian Expeditionary Force 198934 Private
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Born 1897
Died 1969
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1051210 Private 28th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1051210 Private 243rd Overseas Battalion
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