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Series consists of two separate accessions of material related to the Toronto General Hospital and accumulated by the Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief.

Files 6.1.1 to 6.1.2 consist of a half-filled bound volume of signatures spanning the time period of April 5, 1935 to January 16, 1959, and an accompanying 5 page description of its history by Ronald J. Baird, Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Senior Cardiovascular Surgeon at The Toronto Hospital. The book of signatures is a combination visitors’ register/attendance book with groups of signatures that do not always indicate the occasion. Some of the occasions noted include post-graduate courses and club meetings, such as for the Interurban Orthopaedic Club, McGill Toronto Surgical Club, and the Cardiovascular Surgeons Club. Notable signatories include Evarts A. Graham, Charles H. Best, Gordon Murray, Frederick G. Banting, Wilder Penfield, and Norman Bethune. Regarding the first pages of this volume, Dr. Baird remarks in his description, “what a galaxie [sic] of future stars in Toronto Surgery!” Dr. Baird’s description gives extensive details as to how the volume came to be in his possession before being passed onto Surgeon-in-Chief, Dr. Paul Walker.

Files 6.1.3 to 6.1.5 consist of various agreements and indentures that were originally kept in one file folder. The file had originally been in the possession of Dr. Alan Hudson, McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief at The Toronto Hospital from 1989-1991, and President and Chief Executive Officer, from 1991-2000. The file had been passed onto his successor Dr. Paul Walker, Vice President Surgical Directorate and Surgeon-in-Chief of The Toronto Hospital during a transfer of office either when Dr. Hudson became President and Chief Executive Officer (1991) or when Dr. Paul Walker resigned as the James McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief (March 31, 1999) to become Vice-President of the Toronto General Hospital (April 1, 1999). Subsequently the file came to be held by Dr. Walker’s successor as McCutcheon Chair in Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief & Director of Surgical Services at University Health Network, Dr. Bryce Taylor (April 1, 1999- ).

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 a bound volume of the Daily Record of the Operations of the Toronto Western Hospital from 1962-1981 and patient admission ledgers, also from the Toronto Western Hospital. Daily Records of Operations of the Toronto Western Hospital include the numbers of inpatients (adult male, adult female and infants), numbers admitted or births during the day, numbers of discharged during the day and numbers of deaths. The earlier patient admission ledgers include names of patients, their procedures, names of the surgeons and anaesthetists, and clinical information such as blood pressure. Later patient admission ledgers include registration numbers, name of patient, age, sex, date of admission and name of attending physician. File 5.5.8 is a computer printout that includes the additional information of medical record number and admitting diagnosis.

Series consists of 8 binders of course curriculum and 1 record book, which were maintained by the Department of Nursing Education along with student transcripts. File 1.1.13.1 consists of an oversized record book containing the examination grades for all students from the class of 1961 until the class of 1970, organized by class and then by courses within each year. The examination records for the Hospital for Sick Children Medical Surgical Nursing Lectures and Hospital for Sick Children Obstetrical Nursing course, for the same time period, are also included in this volume. Courses for which curriculum is provided include Philosophy of Nursing, Nursing I-III, Paediatric Nursing, and Psychiatric Nursing. Some of the binders contain a copy of the final examination, and class lists including individual addresses and marks. A more extensive course and curriculum list is provided for years 1970-1974.

Series consists of photographs documenting various aspects of the administration and student life of the TGH School of Nursing. File 1.1.11.1 contains negatives of graduating class photographs 1888-1974: negatives for 1889, 1892 to 1899 are missing. File 1.1.11.9 contains portraits of TGH School of Nursing Superintendents Mary Agnes Snively, Jean I. Gunn, and Mary E. Macfarland.

Series consists of photographs taken and collected by the Department during the time of David Allen as part of the Public Relations Department’s Photo and Slide Library. Files include photographs of Administration (former and current) of The Toronto Hospital, Trustees, Auxiliary, Dignitaries and Celebrities, Medical Staff, Residents, and so-called “historical archive files” referring to photographs of buildings, sites and past events. Some of the files also include newspaper clippings, enlargement and usage notations, speeches or programs, cataloguing information, consent forms, and mock-ups or samples of publications for which the photographs were used. Photographs were used for publications and other activities of this Department. Some of the material may also have been produced or used by IMS Creative Communications, a sub-department reporting to the Toronto General Hospital’s Public Relations Department.

Original consent forms are not part of this series. The original file list can be found in file 2.4.1. Subject files are arranged alphabetically. Staff and students are listed by their surname and then their given name. Headings have been included in the file list to indicate index tabs. Handwritten changes and additions to original file titles have been included as part of the file title.

File 2.4.52 includes correspondence from A. Hudson.

File 2.4.78 is of a patient who lived in the Toronto General Hospital for approximately 30 years of her life.

File 2.4.146 includes a ribbon-cutting photograph from the official opening of the Fraser M Fell Pavilion.

File 2.4.155 includes a photograph of American actor Mickey Rooney.

File 2.4.228 includes a photograph of American actor Mary Tyler Moore.

File 2.4.403 includes a biographical statement from Mr. Mickevicius.

File 2.4.426 includes a reproduction of an etching of Burnside Hospital in 1878.

File 2.4.428 includes a photograph of TB Outdoor Treatment, 1912 and the medical records department.

File 2.4.447 includes 4 photographs entitled “Fall of Burnside-June 1980” and 1 contact sheet entitled “Burnside demolition”.

File 2.4.450 includes photographs of Dunlap Building demolition.

File 2.4.455 includes photographs of early ambulances.

File 2.4.497 includes portraits of Drs. Rob Inman, Carl Laskin, Darrell Ogilvie-Harris, Rod Davey, Wayne Marshall, and John Craven.

File 2.4.521 includes images depicting cardiac rehab patients undergoing exercise therapy; name of patient removed from file title.

Files 2.4.522 to 2.4.525 were labeled file folders not listed in the departmental file list that came with the initial record transfer. Original order has been maintained.

File 2.4.508 contains a portrait of Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen.

Files 2.4.596 and 2.4.596b contains historical images of Toronto General and Wellesley Hospitals from photographers Herb Knott & Co. Ltd.

File 2.4.599 contains images of the TTH Mascot, Shuttlebug.

File 2.4.607 includes images from the dedication of the Percy R. Gardiner Coronary Unit in June 1968.

File 2.4.616 seems to include images from Cardiovascular Research Day 1991, though there is no indication as to why; it could be misfiling from the office of origin.

File 2.4.620 includes images of Dr. Anthony Lane.

File 2.4.641 includes the OCI news release from 1985 regarding the Zeiss EM902 electron microscope and images of Dr. Ottensmeyer.

File 2.4.716 includes images of house staff; residents; Drs. R.M. Janes, Banting, Best, C.L. Starr, Morley, Botterell, Aikens, Beaumont, and Gordon Richards; Louise Eastwood, Charles O’Reilly, Mary Agnes Snively, Miss Balmer, Rev. John D. Strachan, and the original image of TGH nursing students observing an operation ca. 1895. This original image includes the names of the nurses and physicians on the verso.

File 2.4.723a includes images of the Burnside Lying-in Hospital / Maternity Building, TGH on Gerrard, the layout of the 1855 building, historical interiors, and an image of Dr. Don Wilson performing a heart transplant in the TWH OR.

File 2.4.732 includes images of: TGH nurses graduation 1969; clerical staff; early ambulances; cardiovascular surgery; medical equipment; opening of the Donald R. Wilson Centre for Research in Education; Black History Month; original image of neuropathology rounds with Dr. Eric Linell and Drs. Hyland, Tom, Lloyd, Woolen, and Wong; group shot from the retirement party for K.G. McKenzie with all staff identified; diabetic diet kitchen, college wing ca. 1930; group shot of Capt. Boddington, Major Hyland, Colonol Crass, Major Botterell, Capt. Richardson and Capt. McCormick taken by the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, University of Toronto, September 1940; Burnside Lying-In Hospital; undated original photograph of TGH house staff with babies ca. 1920s; TGH Emergency Department; patient-model reading “Our Bodies Our Selves”; The Toronto Hospital Auxiliary Annual General Meeting 1998; Angela Ash posing with her drawings; Toronto Western Hospital Auxiliary 100th Anniversary tea 1997; opening for the Arthritis Centre of Excellence 1998; and “Hats Off” promotional shot for Project 2003.

File 2.4.732c has a group picture of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, Toronto, Canada, November 1958.

File 2.4.836 includes pictures of the facilities in the Private Patients’ Pavilion.

File 2.4.894a includes a letter from Dr. B.S. Goldman regarding the origins of the TGH Pacemaker Club.

File 2.4.915 includes portraits of Drs. John Craver and Colin Shapiro.

File 2.4.920 includes pictures of the unveiling of a plaque and dedication for the John David Eaton Building and the Dunlap Radiological Centre by Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Hon. John Black Aird, November 1980 and a historical plaque unveiling with Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Hon. Pauline McGibbon, June 1980.

File 2.4.923a includes a picture of Dr. S. Herman with radiology residents.

File 2.4.934 has pictures from the nurses’ residence building.

File 2.4.991 includes pictures of Drs. Scott Adams and Luc DeNil.

File 2.4.992 includes pictures of Dr. Ruth Martin.

File 2.4.993 includes pictures of Drs. Ruth Martin and Nick Diamant.

File 2.4.999 includes a group picture of a staff baseball team ca. 1925, as well as pictures of teams from the 1970s-1990s.

File 2.4.1015 includes a pre-1960 picture of the TGH Switchboard.

File 2.4.1023 includes pictures of Drs. K.G. McKenzie, Gordon Murray, Charles Tator, W.G. Bigelow, J. Callaghan, Botterell, J.W. Scott, R. Tasker, J. Mann, Tak Mak, G. Davidson, and Augusta Stowe Gullen.

File 2.4.1025c has a prop-up display for the “Strengthen the hands that heal” fund campaign.

File 2.4.1098b has a picture of patients doing crafts.

File 2.4.1108 includes photographs in which actors are portraying patients. No actual patients are in the images.

File 2.4.1109 includes photographs of Mary Tyler Moore and James Garner while filming at the hospital.

File 2.4.1110 includes sheets of slides from May 3, 1989 of Italian and Canadian flags photographed by Gary Beechey, and a sheet of slides for the Sign up for Life organ donation campaign photographed by Toronto General Hospital Photography.

File 2.4.1127 includes two slides of the first operation conducted in Max Bell.

File 2.4.1133 includes some slides of the transplant operating room and operations.

File 2.4.1149 includes images of the exterior of the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology from 1976 as well as images of early computers used in the hospital.

File 2.4.1167 includes pictures of Dr. Charles Tator, the opening of the Kensington Market Clinic in 1987, and the 1st birthday celebrations for The Toronto Hospital in 1987.

File 2.4.1178 includes images of Philip C. Hassen, CEO and Senior Vice President, 1987

Series consists of the draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of the TTH Board of Trustees Planning Committee. File 8.8.3 includes a report titled “Linking the Senior Management Team to the Hospital Mission: Inter-Related Roles and Responsibilities, April 1, 1993” which contains an organizational chart dated April 1, 1993. File 8.8.4 consists of reports from the Priority Programs Directorate, the Surgical Directorate, and the Professional/Diagnostics Services Directorate. The official minutes for these years have not been transferred to the Archives.

Series consists of minutes, meeting notes, and correspondence from the TTH Board of Trustees Planning & Priorities Committee and various department planning committees formed to facilitate planning and consolidation goals as part of the post-merger strategic plan of TTH. Minutes discuss matters such as the creation and submission of reports to TTH Board of Trustees Planning Committee and financial and statistical numbers on current and projected department performance.

Series consists of an indexed, alphabetically arranged manual of procedures maintained by the TGH School of Nursing for the direction of student nurses in completing basic professional training duties. Contains materials created or revised at various times between December 1943 and June 1959.

Series consists of registers maintained for various purposes. File 1.1.5.1 is a register of graduates of the School 1881-1918, including students’ names and year of graduation. File 1.1.5.2 is a register of graduates of the School 1883-1940, including maiden and married names, whether deceased, and year of graduation. Files 1.1.5.3 and 1.1.5.4 are registers of student grades 1898-1920 and 1920-1935, including students’ and examiners’ names; date; course name; grade. File 1.1.5.5 is a register of students’ attendance 1927-1936. Files 1.1.5.6 and 1.1.5.7 are registers of probationary students 1913-1925 and 1926-1943, including students’ names, age, address; dates of probationary and full admission to the School; notes on students’ health, character, academic performance and potential. Files 1.1.5.8 and 1.1.5.9 are registers 1948-1958 and 1958-1970 documenting use of the School seal, including date, description of purpose of use, and signature of authorized user.

Sub-series consists of reports prepared by the Director of the TGH School of Nursing and submitted monthly (May 1946-1958), then quarterly (1959-1962) to the Ontario Department of Health.

Reports contain information about registered nurses employed at the TGH and about student nurses enrolled in the School; information about recent changes (appointments, resignations etc.) in the School’s administration and teaching staff and in the Hospital’s Department of Nursing; and information about students, including dates of birth, student illnesses and lists of recent withdrawals, graduations, and admissions.

Sub-series contains a 10% sample of the records of students who resigned, withdrew or were expelled from the School 1937-1964.

Series contains scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about Princess Margaret Hospital.

The fonds consists of minutes of meetings of the Committee and copies of correspondence, reports and other materials distributed and discussed at meetings. The fonds includes one series:

3.1 Minutes

Series consists of pamphlets containing the constitution, by-laws and rules of the Student Nurses’ Association of the TGH School of Nursing, as revised in August 1957, July 1959, April 1964, and November 1967. The Association was established October 30, 1917.

Series consists of the permanent student academic record files created and maintained by the TGH School of Nursing. Records contained in individual files vary according to the date of creation. Most files will include the student history card, which contains grades by term as well as by subject; hours of practical work by department; dates and duration of absenteeism along with a list of cause or diagnosis and whether the time was made up; date of birth; home address; religion; place of birth; nationality of parents; instructors’ assessments; and dates of admission to the School and completion of courses. Information about vacations or illnesses was collected for the purpose of calculating the number of days absent and ensuring that the time was made up. Some student history cards include an attached picture. Files may also contain certificates of preliminary education (high school academic records); reports including records for hours of nursing care from affiliated Hospitals (e.g. The Hospital for Sick Children or the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital), schools of nursing, and/ or education programs which students attended to receive specialized training and experience; copies of medical records; and photographs. Some files also contain materials subsequently added, including letters from students or their agents requesting letters of reference for employment or information contained in their files, the actual letters of reference, applications for employment in the Nursing Department of the TGH and employment records, newspaper clippings and general correspondence.

Series includes 37 sub-series:

1.1.2.1 Graduates 1911
1.1.2.2 Graduates 1912
1.1.2.3 Graduates 1913
1.1.2.4 Graduates 1914
1.1.2.5 Graduates 1915
1.1.2.6 Graduates 1916
1.1.2.7 Graduates 1917
1.1.2.8 Graduates 1918
1.1.2.9 Graduates 1919
1.1.2.10 Graduates 1920
1.1.2.11 Graduates 1921
1.1.2.12 Graduates 1922
1.1.2.13 Graduates 1923
1.1.2.14 Graduates 1924
1.1.2.15 Graduates 1925
1.1.2.16 Graduates 1926
1.1.2.17 Graduates 1927
1.1.2.18 Graduates 1928
1.1.2.19 Graduates 1929
1.1.2.20 Graduates 1930
1.1.2.21 Graduates 1931
1.1.2.22 Graduates 1932
1.1.2.23 Graduates 1933
1.1.2.24 Graduates 1934
1.1.2.25 Graduates 1935
1.1.2.26 Graduates 1936
1.1.2.27 Graduates 1937
1.1.2.28 Graduates 1938
1.1.2.29 Graduates 1939
1.1.2.30 Graduates 1940
1.1.2.31 Graduates 1941-1942
1.1.2.32 Graduates 1943-1944
1.1.2.33 Graduates 1945
1.1.2.34 Graduates 1946
1.1.2.35 Graduates 1947
1.1.2.36 Graduates 1948
1.1.2.37 Graduates 1949-1950

Sub-series 1.1.2.1 to 1.1.2.10 contain the records of all students in each graduating class 1911-1920. Sub-series 1.1.2.11 to 1.1.2.37 each contain a 10% sample of the records of students in post-1920 graduating classes.

Series consists of the permanent student academic records files created and maintained by the Atkinson School of Nursing of the Toronto Western Hospital. Records contained in individual files vary according to the date of creation, but may include student history cards containing grades, instructors’ assessments, dates of admission to the School and completion of course; certificates of preliminary education (high school academic records); reports from affiliated Hospitals, schools of nursing, and/ or education programs which students attended to receive specialized training and experience; and medical records. Some files also contain materials subsequently added, including letters from students or their agents requesting letters of reference for employment or information contained in their files, applications for employment in the Nursing Department of the TWH and employment records. For graduating years after 1920, only a 10% sample has been retained.

Series includes six sub-series:

1.2.1.1 Graduates 1906-1920
1.2.1.2 Graduates 1921-1928
1.2.1.3 Graduates 1929-1939
1.2.1.4 Graduates 1940-1945
1.2.1.5 Resigned Students
1.2.1.6 Affiliated Students
1.2.1.7 Graduates 1946
1.2.1.8 Graduates 1947
1.2.1.9 Graduates 1948
1.2.1.10 Graduates 1949

Series consists of the permanent student academic records files created and maintained by the Grace Hospital Training School for Nurses. Records contained in individual files vary according to the date of creation, but may include student history cards containing grades, instructors’ assessments, dates of admission to the School and completion of course; certificates of preliminary education (high school academic records); reports from affiliated Hospitals, schools of nursing, and/ or education programs which students attended to receive specialized training and experience; and medical records. Some files also contain materials subsequently added, including letters from students or their agents requesting letters of reference for employment or information contained in their files, applications for employment in the Nursing Department of the Grace Hospital and the Toronto Western Hospital and employment records.

Series includes all records for students in graduating classes up to and including 1920, and a 10% sample of records for students in post-1920 graduating classes. File 1.3.1.44 contains miscellaneous records for students in graduating classes 1912-1923. File 1.3.1.45 contains a list of graduates of the School 1892-1928.

Series consists of yearbooks created by graduating students of the TGH School of Nursing for 1923, 1925, 1931, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1970. Yearbooks contain text and photographs depicting graduating and continuing students, School faculty and staff, and student academic and social activities.

File 1.1.12.10 includes the yearbook belonging to Eugenia Wright with student autographs, as well as the announcement after-the-fact of the Commencement Exercises of the Forty-ninth Graduating Class of the School for Nurses for June 1931, and a poem entitled: <i>1931—T.G.H.—1981 / I’m Fine ……How About You?</i>

Fonds consists of one series:

6.1 Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief records