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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 1880
Died 1932
Canadian Expeditionary Force 463496
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Born 1892
British Army Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
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Born 1892
Canadian Expeditionary Force 408756 Private 19th Canadians
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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 1889
Died 1920
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595841
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595841 Private Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
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Born 1880
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1891
Died 1992
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1898
Canadian Expeditionary Force 844565
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Born 1874
Died 1922
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1890
Died 1921
Canadian Expeditionary Force 5236
Canadian Expeditionary Force 5236 Sapper Canadian Engineers
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Born 1886
Died 1959
Canadian Expeditionary Force 135427 Private Canadian Mounted Rifles 2nd Battalion
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British Army Staff Nurse Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
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Born 1895
Died 1977
Canadian Expeditionary Force 47900 Corporal 15th Canadian Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1969
Canadian Expeditionary Force 832219
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Born 1888
Died 1970
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps 2nd Canadian General Hospital
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