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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 1890
Died 1983
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1888
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1886
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps Dominion Orthopaedic Hospital
More about Gertrude Seton Usborne -
Born 1893
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1885
Died 1934
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1885
Died 1964
Canadian Expeditionary Force 805461 Private 136th Battalion
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Born 1892
Other Empire Force Sister British Red Cross Society
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1888
Died 1970
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps 2nd Canadian General Hospital
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Born 1872
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister, Matron Canadian Army Medical Corps No. 4 General Hospital, University of Toronto
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Born 1896
Died 1924
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 74886 Lieutenant
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Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 283068
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Born 1887
Died 1959
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2537329
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Born 1897
Died 1969
Canadian Expeditionary Force 542475
More about George Carl Porter -
Born 1897
Canadian Expeditionary Force 110117 Private 1st Quebec Regiment, 5th CMR
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Born 1894
Died 1966
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lance Sargeant
Canadian Expeditionary Force 654350 Private 161st Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1971
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3032094 Private 20th Canadians
More about Ross Litchfield -
Born 1891
Canadian Expeditionary Force 622015 Sergeant 44th Battalion
More about Elmer Byron Alward