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Women's College Hospital and Dispensary Commemorative plaque, 2023.  

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Resource ID

10415

Access

Open

Credit Line

Heritage Toronto

Date of Creation

2023

Description

On November 10, 1911, the Women’s College Hospital and Dispensary opened in a house near here, at 18 Seaton Street. The building allowed graduates of the Ontario Medical College for Women to treat patients. Before 1905, universities rarely allowed women into their medical departments. Dr. Emily Stowe, one of the first women to practice professional medicine in Canada, helped to establish the Woman’s Medical College in 1883 to give women equal access to medical education. The hospital run by women, for women, was a success. In its first year, the hospital admitted 114 patients and served over 2,000 in the dispensary. In 1898, Dr. Susanna Boyle, Dr. Jennie Gray, and Dr. Ida Lynd, three graduates from the school, established a dispensary. The medical college closed in 1905 when the University of Toronto began accepting women into its Faculty of Medicine, but the hospital remained active. The two institutions later merged and incorporated in 1913 to become the Women’s College Hospital and Dispensary. The hospital moved to 125 Rusholme Road in 1915. It outgrew that space by 1935 and relocated to 76 Grenville Street. The 18 Seaton Street house was torn down in 1960.

Historical Themes

Education, Health Care, Women's History

Program Category

Historical Plaques

Rights

Heritage Toronto

Time Period

1900-1953, 1954-1998, 1999-today

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Women's College Hospital and Dispensary Commemorative plaque, 2023.

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