Subseries consists of three volumes of OCI minutes from 1951 – 1959, originally kept by Dr. C.L. Ash and later kept in the Office of the Secretary to the Board.
Series consists of correspondence and a three-year report to the National Cancer Institute of Canada prepared under the direction of Dr. A.W. Ham. Series reflects the initial development of the Division of Biological Research and its activities during the period documented in the report.
Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Division of Biological ResearchSeries 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.
Subseries consists of the PMH Expansion Committee report of 1976. The report also included thirteen appendixes, which have been arranged into two file folders.
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 PhysicsSeries consists of minutes of the Princess Margaret Hospital - The Wellesley Hospital Liaison Committee from 1973-1981. 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 - The Wellesley Hospital Liaison CommitteeSeries consists of minutes of the PMH Resident Committee from 1975-1982. 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. Resident CommitteeSeries 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 SubcommitteeSeries 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 CommitteeSeries consists of minutes of the Computer Services Committee of the Medical Advisory Committee. Minutes of the Computer Services Committee had been kept in one binder, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date
File SF2: 5.2 contains the Hospital Systems Sub-Committee minutes from13 Jan. 1978.
File SF2: 5.9 contains the Subcommittee on Backup minutes.
Subseries consists of minutes of meetings of the PMH Trust Advisory Committee.
Princess Margaret Hospital Trust. Advisory CommitteeSeries consists of minutes of for the Surgical Oncology [Ad hoc Committee of the Board] from 1987 to 1988.
Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Surgical Oncology [Ad hoc Committee of the Board]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.
Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Board along with correspondence, reports, financial records, recommendations for staff appointments, curriculum vitae, hospital by-laws and other documentation referred to in the minutes. Series reflects the involvement of the Board with the establishment and maintenance of the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, and the Board's relationship with the University of Toronto and other teaching hospitals. Minutes of the Board had been kept in nine separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.
Series consists of minutes of the Medical Audit Committee from 1986-1990. 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.
Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Medical Audit CommitteeSeries contains scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about Princess Margaret Hospital.
Series consists of the minutes of the Public Relations Committee of the Board from 1988 to 1992. The minutes had been kept in one binder, within which minutes filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date.
Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Public Relations CommitteeSubseries consists of correspondence files related to MAC minutes. Minutes of the Board had been kept in nine separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.
Subseries consists of the November 1992 report of the Board Utilization Task Force.
Series consists of minutes of the Operating Room Committee and its subcommittee, the OR Utilization Working Group, of the Medical Advisory Committee. Series reflects both the committee’s and subcommittee’s role in making recommendations on any matter related to the operating room service, which has been referred to the committee by the Medical Advisory Committee as well as the booking and sequence of operations. Minutes of the Operating Room Committee and OR Utilization Working Group had been kept in one binder, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. The files have been arranged chronologically by date.
Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital. Operating Room Committee