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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.

Series consists of material created or accumulated by Jodi Braunton, Manager, Research Communications, in preparation for the 50th anniversary celebrations for the Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI). Series includes photocopies of background research on the history of OCI, information on James Till, publisher’s galley for E.A. McCulloch’s book “The Ontario Cancer Institute: Successes and Reverses at Sherbourne Street”, and original correspondence from H.E. Johns to Dr. C.L. Ash and Mr. N.C. Urquhart regarding Dr. John’s acceptance of the position of Senior Physicist at OCI in 1955.

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.

Series consists of policy manuals from The Toronto Hospital, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, and University Health Network which have been superseded.

Subseries consists of the most current Board of Directors Handbook that was kept on file in the Office of the Board Secretary.

The handbook consisted of seventeen sections, which have been arranged into two file folders.

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.

Sousfonds consists of meetings of the Medical Advisory Committee and its various subcommittees, as well as supporting documentation for the minutes. Files are arranged in series by committee, and then chronologically by date, as per original binders. Files have been arranged in chronological order when possible. Not all series have been processed.

Sousfonds includes fourteen series.
SF2:2) Medical Advisory Committee minutes
SF2:3) Ambulatory Care Committee minutes
SF2:4) Budget & Finance Committee of the Medical Advisory Committee minutes
SF2:5) Clinical Trials Committee minutes
SF2:6) Computer Services Committee minutes
SF2:7) Infection Control Committee minutes
SF2:8) Medical Records Committee minutes
SF2:9) Operating Room Committee minutes
SF2:10) Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee minutes
SF2:11) Medical Audit Committee minutes
SF2:12) PMH Resident Committee minutes
SF2:13) Princess Margaret Hospital - The Wellesley Hospital Liaison Committee minutes
SF2:14) Admission, Inpatient and Discharge Committee minutes
SF2:15) Patient Education Committee

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.

Series consists of office files and records from the Office of the Secretary to the Board. The majority of the material comes from Board Secretary M. McKenzie's office. The series is broken down into five subseries:
17A) Board of Directors Handbook
17B) Expansion Committee Report
17C) Task Force
17D) Minutes of OCI 1951 - 1959 / C.L. Ash
17E) Office files of the Secretary to the Board

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

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.

Series consists of the signed merger agreement between The Toronto Hospital and the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital:

4.2.1 Merger agreement between TTH and OCI/PMH (1997)

Sousfonds consists of minutes of meetings of the Board and their various subcommittees along with correspondence, reports, financial records, recommendations for staff appointments, curriculum vitae, hospital by-laws and other documentation referred to in the minutes. Sousfonds 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. Files are arranged in series by committee, and then chronologically by date, as per original binders. Minutes of the Board had been kept in nine separate binders, within which minutes were filed in reverse chronological order. In addition, minutes from the Executive Committee comprised six separate binders, minutes of the Budget and Finance Committee comprised two separate binders and minutes from smaller subcommittees had their own individual binders. All files have been arranged in chronological order. The Office of the Secretary to the Board records have not been altered.

Sousfonds includes 17 series.

SF1:1) Board of Trustees [Members of OCI] minutes
SF1:2) Executive Committee minutes
SF1:3) Budget & Finance Committee [Finance & Audit Committee] minutes
SF1:4) Joint Conference Committee minutes
SF1:5) Board Development Committee minutes
SF1:6) Quality & Resource Management Committee minutes
SF1:7) Public Relations Committee minutes
SF1:8) Building Management Committee
SF1:9) Surgical Oncology [Ad Hoc Committee of the Board]
SF1:10) OCI Audit Committee minutes
SF1:11) PMH – University Joint Relations Committee minutes
SF1:12) Board Planning Committee minutes
SF1:13) OCI/PMH Board Research Committee minutes
SF1:14) PMH Trust / Foundation minutes
SF1:15) Board Books
SF1:16) Retreat Books
SF1:17) Office of the Secretary to the Board records

Subseries consists of minutes of meetings of the OCI/PMH Pension Committee, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee of the Board. The minutes were kept in one binder, within which, minutes had been arranged in reverse chronological order. Files have been arranged chronologically by date.

Subseries consists of the office files of the Secretary to the Board. Some of the contents include the Joint Steering Committee (which includes the G.E. King correspondence), Files on Board and Former Board Members (SF1: 17E.1 - .36), Board Orientation Package, Board Constitution & Development (SF1: 17E.107 -.110), Board Policies & Procedures (SF1: 17E.111, .121), In-camera meetings of the Board (SF1: 17.130), Board Correspondence - with the Ministry of Health and miscellaneous(SF1: 17E.92 -.95, .100 - .102, .103 - .105), Strategic Planning (SF1: 17E.79 - .80), Advisory Board Members (SF1: 17E.37 - .40), the Community Advisory Committee, Department Heads and Senior Staff Committee, By-laws and Accreditation (SF1: 17E.49 -.76, .116 - .120), AMGEN Inc. (SF1:17E.63), original signed documents regarding the legal name change from "P.M.H. Trust" to "The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation" (SF1: 17E.76), PMH Foundation History (SF1: 17E.98), Provincial Cancer Society (SF1: 17E.87 - .91), Media relations policy for PMH staff (SF1: 17E.97), Royal visits (SF1: 17E.21, .92-.93, and .96) and Patient Letters.

The files were in two different filing cabinets and some boxes; it is suspected the original order is not completely intact. The file order has not been tampered with in the archival arrangement. Original file titles were retained in the box and file lists.

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.

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.

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.

The Princess Margaret Hospital ephemera collection is an assembly of material in various formats that have been accumulated by the UHN Archives from a variety of disparate sources including, but not limited to, family members of former staff or students, other repositories, or anonymous donations. Collection consists of textual records, photographs and other material. Material in the collection relates to the history of the hospital, its staff or students.

Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Board Planning Committee for 1993 to 1996. The minutes had been kept in a single binder and have been arranged in chronological order.