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OCI/PMH Media Releases
CA ON00343 RG 2-UHN 3-3.7 · Series · 1999-2004
Part of University Health Network record group

Series consists of media releases/news releases accumulated by the Public Affairs Advisor for the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Media releases were written and accumulated by predecessors in this office and arranged in reverse chronological order in three binders. Files have been kept in the arrangement of the original binders.

University Health Network. Public Affairs & Communications
Biographical files
CA ON00343 DHC-2 · Series · 1940-2011
Part of Dr. Donald Henry Cowan fonds

Series consists of biographical files on key players in the history of cancer care in Ontario compiled by Dr. Cowan. Individual files can consist of Dr. Cowan’s notes, interview transcripts, slides from talks given, copies of papers written either by or about the individual in question, related booklets and in some cases photographs. These files were compiled by Dr. Cowan while preparing a history of Cancer Care Ontario and talks and articles on Dr. Harold O. Warwick. File 2.1 contains Dr. Cowan’s research material in support of his argument that Dr. Warwick was Canada’s first medical oncologist.

Files were organized by Dr. Cowan in manila envelopes. Details transcribed on each envelope have been included as part of the file titles. When notes on the envelopes were extensive, the envelope itself has been included as part of the file contents.

CA ON00343 DHC-1 · Series · 1985-1988
Part of Dr. Donald Henry Cowan fonds

Series consists of correspondence and position papers regarding Princess Margaret Hospital’s relocation and the merger between Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital. The material related to the Princess Margaret Hospital relocation was compiled while Dr. Cowan was Chair of the Oncology Coordinating Council at the University of Toronto. The material related to the TGH-TWH merger is from Dr. Cowan’s time as Head of the Department of Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center. Opinions on the proposed merger had been requested of the Chairs of Clinical Departments in the Faculty of Medicine by the Dean of Medicine, University of Toronto in 1985. Each head of a hospital’s Department of Medicine were sent copies.

Dr. Cowan organized these files with both names and numbers. File titles retain Dr. Cowan’s original titles and his file numbers are included at the end of the file titles in brackets. Arrangement is according to Dr. Cowan’s original numbering. There were two different files numbered 23. Files 1-21 and 37 were not donated to the Archives.

Photographs
CA ON00343 RG 2-UHN 3-3.6 · Series · 1941-[ca. 1967]
Part of University Health Network record group

Series consists of photographs accumulated by the Public Affairs and Communications department from their predecessor departments. Files 3.6.1 to 3.6.5 are large composite class photographs of students in the Armed Service Radiologists School at the Toronto General Hospital. Files 3.6.6 to 3.6.7 are photographs that were originally mounted and framed for display and had exhibit captions affixed to the back of one of the frames. The caption for file 3.6.6 read:

Private Patient’s Pavilion, 1940
Photograph
The first of a series of photographs taken in the early 1940s. Most likely taken as a marketing tool for the Private Patient’s Pavilion (now called the Main Pavilion). View taken from the south, the Fell Pavilion now sits on the driveway.

The caption for file 3.6.7 read:

New Aid for Medical Research, circa 1967
Photograph
“One of the world’s most powerful electron microscopes has been installed in Canada’s leading cancer research centre as the centennial gift of The Canada Life Assurance Company. Here Dr. T.C. Brown, chief pathologist of Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, examines the 3,200-pound instrument with A. H. Lemmon, president of Canada Life and president of the Canadian Life Insurance Association. The EM 300 will be used in the fight against cancer, arthritis, muscle degeneration, and diseases of the kidney, liver and skin. It is capable of magnifying an image 500,000 times.” 1967 photograph label.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.10 · Series · 1980-1997
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series contains publications, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and photographs from OCI/PMH which were accumulated by the staff of the TTH Department of Public Affairs and Communications.

File 2.10.23 includes copies of Let’s Move It newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 3 and Volume 2, Issue 5).

File 2.10.32 includes 29 photographs from Dr. Harold John’s retirement party.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital
CA ON00343 OCI fonds · Fonds · 1921-1997

Fonds consists of minutes from various hospital committees, correspondence, administrative and research reports, memorandums, publicity photographs, and reports and architectural drawings regarding hospital planning and construction. Records relate to the administrative, teaching and research activities of the various divisions of the hospital. Fonds is arranged into two sousfonds and five series:

Sousfonds
1) Board of Trustees of the Ontario Cancer Institute
2) Medical Advisory Committee

Series
1) Division of Hospital Services records
2) Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute records
3) Division of Physics records
4) Division of Biological Research records
5) Division of Clinical Services records

The arrangement of the series reflects the organizational structure as it was in 1957. Since no official policy for records transfer existed, fonds is incomplete.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital
Leukemia Service records
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-5-5A1 · Subseries · 1975-1996
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Subseries contains files and graphs of the clinical courses of patients with leukemia. These graphs were kept by the Acute Leukemia Service from about 1971 to 1983. They represent clinical record keeping in the pre-computer era. This type of graphic representation was discontinued in 1983 in favour of computer-based record keeping. Records were transferred as binders titled as follows: Leukemia Protocols, Leukemia – Active A-L, Leukemia – Active M-Z, Acute Leukemia – Deceased A-E, Acute Leukemia – Deceased F-H [includes I-Z], Leukemia File Worksheets : AA2-AA3 : May 1977 – Dec. 1979, and Miscellaneous Patients.

The Protocols binder contained copies of treatment protocols used by the clinical leukemia service during this period. Patients who were included in the binders labeled Leukemia-Active were on active treatment at the time this record-keeping was discontinued. Records of patients who had died had been removed from the active binders. The binder labeled “miscellaneous patients” referred to patients not treated with standard PMH protocols or who were admitted to the service after having received some amount of treatment from another hospital.

The first five files in the subseries contain general information regarding the Clinical Leukemia Service at OCI/PMH from the period 1989-1990. File 5A1.138 includes planning papers from 1975 regarding the development of a leukemia service at the Princess Margaret Hospital.

CA ON00343 OCI fonds-5 · Series · 1937-1996; predominant 1975-1990.
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Committee on Informed Consent and the Special Committee on Consent, research and presentation slides, research and lecture notes, preliminary architectural drawings of the University Avenue site, and annual reports from the Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy, all accumulated by Dr. Richard Hasselback of the Department of Medicine. Series reflects the varied responsibilities and interests of the clinical staff. Files 5.6 to 5.12 may originally have been before file 5.1 but were in the present order when they arrived at the Archives.

There is one subseries:
5A1: Leukemia Service records.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Division of Clinical Services
Division of Physics records
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-3 · Series · 1958-1980
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of correspondence with Dr. H.E. Johns, copies of grant applications, research reports, curriculum vitae and articles relating to Dr. Johns' appointment as Consultant with the Committee on Federal Research on Biological and Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation (FREIR) in 1980, and the appendices of the -Beam Project at TRIUMF which is comprised of photocopied and reprinted articles and reports. Series reflects some of the research activities and outside appointments of the Head of the Physics Division. Files 3.1-3.19 relate to Dr. H.E. Johns's appointment with FREIR. Files 3.20-3.64 relate to the Triumf Project.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Division of Physics
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-2 · Series · 1921-1996; predominant 1933- [1966?]
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of accounts and correspondence of the Ontario Cancer Institute; minutes of the Board of Trustees and the Building Committee; lecture notes, speeches and memorandums; reprinted articles; grant applications and correspondence regarding Dr. Ash's research on adrenalectomy; minutes and reports from the Ontario Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation; correspondence by Dr. Gordon E. Richards, President of the Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy; cancer statistics and annual reports from the Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy; and minutes of the National Cancer Institute. Records reflect the varied administrative, teaching and research activities undertaken by Dr. Ash while Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute and contain files relating to his previous and concurrent positions as radiologist under Dr. Gordon E. Richards at Toronto General Hospital(1940-1949), senior radiologist at the Toronto General Hospital (from 1949), Professor of Radiotherapy at the University of Toronto and Radiotherapist in Chief to The Toronto General Hospital. Records do not include files from the offices of subsequent holders of this position. The statistics files include cancer statistics from 1924 to 1956. Files 2.50-2.57 relate to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. Files 2.84-2.108 are the files of the President of the Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy which were created at the Toronto General Hospital and probably accumulated by Dr. Ash in 1949 when he was appointed Senior Radiologist at the Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Ash probably brought these files with him to the Ontario Cancer Institute when he became Director. Files have been arranged as close as possible to the order in which they were found, although the original order had probably been tampered with prior to their transfer to the Archives.

Gaps exist in the records between 1926 and 1934, 1966 and 1969, and 1969 and 1975.

Ontario Cancer Institute. Director
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-1-1A · Subseries · 1952-[199-]
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Subseries consists of minutes from the Public Relations Committee, the Quality & Resource Management Committee (1995 - 1996), Board of Directors (1995 - 1997), and other meetings, financial statements, operating plans, invoices, patents, grant applications, reports on administrative procedures, hospital construction and integration, correspondence with the Ministry of Health, general correspondence, statistics files, building and program planning reports, site decision and re-location reports, architectural drawings of hospital properties, reprinted articles, memorandums and Staff Club photographs of OCI Christmas parties and concerts. Records reflect the involvement of OCI administrators in varied aspects of the hospital's activities including the Board of Directors, building planning, grant and research development, finance, and hospital services.

The files are arranged according to the order in which they arrived at the library, though it is suspected that the original order had been tampered with. Files 1A.24 - 1A.115 have been arranged according to an original file list found in the PRCC binder, file 1A.24. Files 1A.1 - 1A.23 are from the office of John F. Law. Files 1A.24 - 1A.164 are from the office of J.E. Ratz. Materials from Staff Club were arranged with this subseries because they were clearly marked as the property of the Administrator's Office. Files 1A.258 - 1A.276 are from the office of J.E. Ratz. Files 1A.288 - 1A.342 are from the office of S. Conner.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Office of the Administrator
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-1-1E · Subseries · 1966-1993
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Subseries consists of newsletters produced by the Pharmacy Department originally entitled Pharmacy Bulletin, and subsequently entitled PMH Pharmafacts. The first Pharmacy Bulletin was issued on June 27, 1966 by Mary Gannon as a result of a new Pharmacy Department policy. Newsletters include drug information relating to hospital procedures, dosage, administration and side-effects, articles by pharmacy staff on new drugs or drug related issues, news items relating to the pharmacy department, and relevant hospital committee updates. The series was originally arranged in four binders in loose chronological order and kept in the departmental library.

CA ON00343 OCI fonds-1-1B · Subseries · 1985-1995
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Subseries consists of photographs and slides created for publicity purposes, and related textual materials. Records include photographs of the hospital, its staff, special events, visitors and equipment, and reflect various aspects of hospital life throughout the years. Some of these photographs were used for OCI publications and annual reports; others were used in displays; and some were set aside for enlargement and cropping. Files 1B.12 - 1B.57 were originally in unlabelled sleeves and loose piles and have been kept in the same order as they were found. No attempt has been made to impose an order on them. Photographs in file 1B.20 appear to be from the opening ceremonies for the hospital on September 25, 1958.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Department of Public Relations
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-1 · Series · 1952-1997
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of nursing histories and handbooks, press releases, financial statements, minutes of the Ambulatory Care Committee, Forms Committee and other meetings, an unpublished history of the Ontario Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation, administrative reports, memorandums, photographs, research slides and architectural drawings. Series includes five subseries:

1A) Office of the Administrator records
1B) Department of Public Relations photographs and records.
1C) Director of Public Relations [unprocessed]
1D) Director of Library Services [unprocessed]
1E) Department of Pharmacy newsletters
Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Division of Hospital Services
Patient Education Committee
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-SF2-14 · Series · 1981-1982
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of correspondence, reports on patient education and minutes of the Patient Education Committee from 1981 to 1982. This material had been kept in a binder, within which correspondence, reports and, minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Patient Education Committee
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-SF2-13-13A · Subseries · 1976-1982
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Inpatient Care Subcommittee from 1976 to 1982. Minutes of the committee had been kept in one binder, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Princess Margaret Hospital. Inpatient Care Subcommittee
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-SF2-13 · Series · 1976-1995
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Admission, Inpatient and Discharge Committee from 1976 to 1978, the Admission & Discharge Committee from 1978 to 1991, and the Inpatient Care Committee from 1991-1995. Minutes of the committee had been kept in four binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date.

The series has one subseries:
13A) Inpatient Care Subcommittee minutes

Princess Margaret Hospital. Admission, Inpatient and Discharge Committee
CA ON00343 OCI fonds-SF2-4 · Series · 1977-1997
Part of Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Clinical Trials Committee of the Medical Advisory Committee. Minutes of the Clinical Trials Committee from 1977-1995 had been kept in three separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date. Minutes for 1997 had been kept chronologically; their original order has been maintained.

Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Clinical Trials Committee