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My friend had day surgery. I was able to go to the chapel.

Also I found this beauty from a 1962 Nursing Student Handbook:

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WillTo said:
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My friend had day surgery. I was able to go to the chapel.

Also I found this beauty from a 1962 Nursing Student Handbook:

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ShonTron said:
That is fascinating. The hospital really is a hodgepodge, even after many of those smaller wings were demolished and replaced by larger, more integrated sections.
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First, let me post the full-sized image:

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Do we know what year that is from? i don't see any building portions denoted post 1953.

Looking at the image above, it struck me that this is not what the centre portion of the Queen St. side of the hospital looks like; there is no u-shape or indent. That's F-Wing or the Donnelly Wing.

A bit of digging, the setback was filled in, in 1964.

This is the hospital that I first encountered in my youth (as a visitor).

The Cardinal Carter Wing (aka Victoria Wing) opened in 1983.

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This is the 2025 Satellite Image view of the campus from Toronto Maps (City).

Who wants to take on dating everything? LOL

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The only sections left from the 1962 guide are the 1926 and the 1950 A-Unit wings (where the fracture clinic entrance at Queen and Bond is), most of the B-Unit in the middle, and the 1937 E-Unit with the Art Deco entrance on Bond Street.

The E-Unit entrance and lobby are beautiful, and I am glad those have been retained, but the rest is mostly forgettable. The 1980s Victoria/Cardinal Carter (with the additional floors on top added later) section really modernized the place, followed of course by the demolition of the north nurses residence for the education wing north of Shuter, and most recently the D-unit buildings for the new ED (bringing this back to the main topic).
 
WillTo said:
From the Toronto Star Photo Archive
St. Michael's Hospital 1938
(Corner of Bond and Shuter Streets)

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That one wing on Bond, just south of Shuter was a shame to lose. Doubtless no longer functional for hospital purposes, in the sense of patient care or research, but I think it might have been a fine spot to stick the executive offices, or HR or Accounting.

Of course, it was in the way of a more functional ER, sigh. The nicer 'houses' fronting Shuter were long gone decades ago, and I think a reasonable loss. Much of the hospital fronting Shuter and Victoria was quite utilitarian in previous iterations and not worthy of lamentation. But some of the Bond fronting stuff was just dignified and well done, in a way that the exterior of the new ER is most certainly not.

Too bad. I think a bit more effort at adaptive re-use would have been welcome here and at some other hospital campuses where history's best efforts were let go w/too little fuss.

I think its important to prioritize functional healthcare and not retain structures that can't be adaptively re-used at the expense of same; still some opportunities to be creative were surely overlooked.
 
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