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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 1985
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1869
Died 1953
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1897
Died 1933
Canadian Expeditionary Force 602438 Private 34th Battalion
More about Albert Victor Bailey -
Born 1897
Died 1969
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1051210 Private 28th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1051210 Private 243rd Overseas Battalion
More about Alexander Milton Innis -
Born 1889
Died 1946
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain 58th Canadians
More about Warner Elmo Cusler -
Born 1895
Died 1933
Canadian Expeditionary Force 491018 Canadian Officers Training Corps University of Toronto
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1263400 Gunner Reserve Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
More about George Albert Ames -
Born 1880
Died 1968
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps
Canadian Expeditionary Force 372-4-142 Acting Major Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Born 1889
Died 1972
Other Empire Force Sister French Red Cross
More about Madelaine Frances Jaffray Later Morrison -
Born 1897
British Army General Headquarters Intelligence France
More about Sylvia Margaret Risdon -
Born 1886
Died 1919
Canadian Expeditionary Force 514571 Corporal
More about Roger Aytoun White Couper -
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Born 1886
Died 1971
Canadian Expeditionary Force 435398 Hon Capt Canadian Chaplain Services
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Born 1894
Died 1957
Canadian Expeditionary Force 772570 Private
More about Cornelius Aka Neil Prior -
Born 1885
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Lavina Gerrard -
Born 1891
Died 1941
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps M.D. No. 2
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Frederick Grant Banting -
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Born 1899
Died 1923
Canadian Expeditionary Force 681133 Private Canadian Infantry 15th Battalion
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Born 1887
Died 1921
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1039655 Sapper 3rd CRT
More about Charles Fauntleroy Austin -
Born 1891
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Ethel Louise Beer