Lives of the First World War
Discover, explore and remember millions of personal stories from the First World War
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.
Created by: , Kristen1288
-
Born 1892
Died 1946
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1087279 Private 252nd Battalion
More about Melvin Dunbrack -
Born 1897
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3132145 Private 1st Depot Battalion, WOR
More about Carl Humphrey -
Born 1881
Died 1972
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps 1st Canadian General Hospital
More about Ada Winifred Hammell Later Ronaldson -
Born 1897
Died 1939
Canadian Expeditionary Force 799869 Private
More about Edmund Victor Chapman -
Born 1896
Canadian Expeditionary Force 806 Acting Sergeant
More about Thomas Shirreff Ronaldson -
Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1057071 Private 245th O/S Battalion
More about Stewart Colquhoun -
Born 1889
Died 1920
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595841
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595841 Private Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
More about John Patrick Hoar -
Born 1888
Died 1936
Canadian Expeditionary Force 442734
More about Donald Francis Macinnes -
Born 1897
Died 1958
Canadian Expeditionary Force 730694 Private 111th (South Waterloo) Overseas Battalion
More about Albert Klaassen -
Born 1877
Died 1965
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps - Hydrological Unit
More about George Gallie Nasmith -
Born 1884
Died 1926
Canadian Expeditionary Force 256542 Private Saskatchewan Regiment 1st Depot Battalion
More about Sydney Belcher -
Born 1885
Died 1920
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1266139 Staff Sergeant Farrier Royal Canadian Dragoons
More about Thomas George Faulkner -
Born 1880
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Thomas Bickerton Edmison -
Born 1891
Died 1992
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Alma Florence Finnie -
Born 1888
Died 1944
Canadian Expeditionary Force 138596 Private
More about Charles Thomas Harrowsmith -
Born 1888
Canadian Expeditionary Force 769226 Private 18th Battalion
More about Ernest John Moxley -
Born 1892
British Army Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
More about Frederick Walter Clement -
Born 1884
Died 1927
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Mabel Anne Nairn Later Ogden -
Born 1880
Died 1932
Canadian Expeditionary Force 463496
More about Matthew Grant Lawson -