St. Michael's Hospital

There are two plaques at this location.
Both can be seen on this page.

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

At 30 Bond Street, a little way south of Shuter Street, is a 1992 Toronto Historical Board plaque which tell us about the hospital:

Plaque coordinates: 43.653943 -79.377472

St. Michael's Hospital opened on this site in 1892 in a Baptist church which had been converted into a women's boarding house by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The hospital opened with 26 beds, six doctors and five nurses. In 1893 the sisters opened the first Catholic nursing school in Canada and in 1910 the hospital became formally affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Many Canadian "Firsts" took place during the hospital's first century including the first blood transfusion (1917), the most successful Canadian heart transplant (1968), the first muscle transplant in North America (1973) and the world's first sciatic nerve transplant (1988). In addition, numerous medical procedures and technological innovations were developed at the hospital. By its centenary in 1992, St. Michael's Hospital, still owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph, had become a 500 bed tertiary care hospital.

Photos and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted January, 2012

Inside the doors at 30 Bond Street is a 1984 plaque which has this to say:

First established in 1892 by the Sisters of St. Joseph, the Hospital is dedicated to the care and cure of the sick within and beyond the bounds of the City of Toronto.

The surrounding masonry has been preserved from one of the original hospital buildings, located on this site, to commemorate the early history and continuing devotion to patient care, teaching and research, according to the philosophy of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

"What you do unto these, the least of my brethren, you do unto me."

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