• B’nai Brith and McNally Cottages
  

East Cottage and West Cottages

The East Cottage was also referred to as the B’nai B’rith Cottage, Rehabilitation Cottage and the Miller Cottage. It was located on Miller Ave., off San Pedro Drive. The West Cottage was also referred to as the McNally Cottage, Rehabilitation Cottage, and the Beamis Cottage. It was located on Beamis Ave., off San Pedro Drive.

They were designed by the architectural firm of Husband, Wallace, Ellis, Garwood-Jones and the contractor was G.S. Wark Ltd. They each had 8,220 sq. ft of usable space. They were built and furnished for approximately $400,000. They were completed in Nov., 1971 and opened in 1972.

East Cottage was named the B’nia B’rith Cottage after the Viceroy Lodge, B’nai B’rith in recognition of their 25 years of support to the sanatorium. .

They were intended to form the basis of a residential treatment program for children 6-12 years. They were used as part of a short-term assessment, treatment and training program for emotionally disturbed children who were patients of the Child and Family Centre.

In 1991 they became a residential treatment centre for teenagers with psychiatric problems and the only hospital affiliated treatment centre for teens in Hamilton.

• Brow Infirmary
  

The Brow Infirmary (later renamed the Continuing Care Centre)

The Brow Infirmary is the oldest major permanent building at Chedoke Hospital. It was opened to treat World War I soldiers sent home from overseas suffering from tuberculosis and gassed lungs.

The Hamilton Health Association, the body which oversaw the running of the sanatorium, was asked by the Dominion government to take in ex soldiers as patients and offered money to build new facilities. The Association hired Dr. W.C. White, an American government specialist in tuberculosis treatment, as a consultant. It was he who recommended the site on the edge of the escarpment for two major reasons. The first was that the location kept the soldier patients physically away from the civilian patients. Soldiers were known among sanatorium directors to be rowdy and difficult to control. The second factor was the healthful benefits of the breezes up there and the wonderful view of open farmland stretching to the bay. Now of course this is the community of West Hamilton.

The sod was turned on May 15, 1915 by Mrs. P.D. Crerar, President of the Ladies Auxiliary. The Infirmary was officially opened on Dec. 5, 1916. The architectural firm was Stewart & Whitton, the general contractor was W.H. Cooper, and the total cost was $146,569.19

In 1917 it was flanked by the East and West Pavilions which were used for patient diningrooms and vocational workshops. They were also paid for by a grant from the Dominion Government.

In 1933, a central heating plant was installed to supply heat and hot water for all buildings at the Brow.

In 1947 the bed capacity was doubled by enclosing verandahs and sunrooms.

In 1958 an Order in Council permitted the Hamilton Health Association to operate a general hospital and a hospital for the chronically ill at Brow. On January 17,1959 a renovated Brow Infirmary was reopened as the Hospital for Convalescent and Chronic Care Patients. Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson officiated. An open house followed until 5 pm. The cost of the renovations was roughly $440,000. Furnishings and equipment were approx. $60,000. By early 1960 it was fully occupied.

• Bruce Memorial Building
  

In 1920 the late Mr. John A. Bruce, owner of the J.A. Bruce Seed Co. made a bequest to the Hamilton Health Association, the governing body of the sanatorium, for $100,000. A long needed extention to the Preventorium was considered. However in the end, it was decided to build a building separate from the Preventorium to accommodate all the services other than wards that the children required. Therefore it was built adjacent to the Preventorium. The architectural firm was Beckett, the contractor was Piggott and the construction company was the Healey Construction Co. The total cost was $54,730.70. It was officially opened on June 17, 1921 by His Honor Colonel Harry F. Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

The Bruce Building provided accommodation for school rooms, a kitchen, a dining room and a workshop for Preventorium children. The top story also provided living quarters for the doctors, nurses and teachers who lived on site. There was also an operating room and an office for a visiting dentist. It was described as “a modern, fire-proof construction and is admirably planned and equipped to fulfill its useful and important purpose.”

In September 1947 the Ancaster School took over the work previously done by the Mountain Sanatorium School Board. The school rooms were no longer necessary so they were converted into staff dining rooms. The rest of the building was renovated to become a residence for female staff.

In 1952 the basement was renovated for rehabilitation workrooms.

In 1965, the building was renovated again to accomodate the Community Psychiatric Hospital.

In 1968, it was renovated once again to be used as the Nursery School of the Child and Family Centre which brought it full circle, back to the care and education of children.

• Central Building
  

In 1926 the staffhouse, where the kitchen had been located, burned down. Its replacement, built by W.H. Cooper, General Contractors, became known as the Central Building.

In 1932 an addition provided more dining room accommodation for male staff. In 1934 another addition provided a root cellar in the basement, warehouse accommodation, a pasteurizing plant on the first floor, refrigeration and accommodation for kitchen staff on the second floor, and sleeping quarters for male staff on the third floor.

In 1951 the second floor staff quarters were converted into married quarters. In June of 1960, a new cafeteria opened.

In January of 1965, the dairy operation closed. Arrangements were made to buy milk from a local dairy.

The Central Building was since been converted into office space for various departments.

• Child and Family Centre
  

In February 1912 , the sanatorium laundry, which was located in a barn, burned down. The Child and Family Research Building was built as the new laundry at a cost of $5,214 which was raised by subscription in Hamilton. The architect was Mr. William Palmer Whitton. It was originally a single story brick structure with a water tower. It served as the sanatorium laundry from 1912-1924. The second story was added in 1917 to house unmarried male staff.

In 1924 a new laundry was built, (see Service Building), leaving this building empty. After the Staff House was destroyed by fire in August 1925, the business offices were moved into this building. It became the Adminstration Building for the sanatorium. In 1916 when the construction of the Brow Infirmary vastly expanded the bureaucracy, the first Business manager was hired. Until now the medical superintendent and the members of the Board of Directors had done all the paperwork and accounting.

The first floor of the “Administration” building, as it was subsequently known, was converted into offices for administrative work and storerooms. Now they could purchase supplies in bulk to save money. Now the account books could be retrieved from the auditor’s office downtown. The second floor continued to house unmarried male staff.

In 1959-60, the whole building was remodelled to house all the administrative offices of the sanatorium. This worked well for the next twenty years. By 1975 however the adminstrative needs of the sanatorium had expanded well beyond the capacity of one building and it housed only the finance, personnel and purchasing departments. All other administrative offices were located elsewhere, mainly in the Wilcox Pavilion. Gradually these departments were also moved into other buildings.

It was last known as the building that housed the Child and Family Research Dept. In 1999, having outlived its usefulness, it was torn down.

• Commercial Travellers Shack
  

It was built in 1910 through a donation from the Commercial Travellers of the City of Hamilton. It was a single story, wooden structure with one side completely open to the weather. It accommodated 6 male patients. There were several additions built over the years. In 1911 it got a hot water furnace in the cellar.

It was torn down in 1939.

• Continuing Care Centre
  

The Brow Infirmary (later renamed the Continuing Care Centre)

The Brow Infirmary is the oldest major permanent building at Chedoke Hospital. It was opened to treat World War I soldiers sent home from overseas suffering from tuberculosis and gassed lungs.

The Hamilton Health Association, the body which oversaw the running of the sanatorium, was asked by the Dominion government to take in ex soldiers as patients and offered money to build new facilities. The Association hired Dr. W.C. White, an American government specialist in tuberculosis treatment, as a consultant. It was he who recommended the site on the edge of the escarpment for two major reasons. The first was that the location kept the soldier patients physically away from the civilian patients. Soldiers were known among sanatorium directors to be rowdy and difficult to control. The second factor was the healthful benefits of the breezes up there and the wonderful view of open farmland stretching to the bay. Now of course this is the community of West Hamilton.

The sod was turned on May 15, 1915 by Mrs. P.D. Crerar, President of the Ladies Auxiliary. The Infirmary was officially opened on Dec. 5, 1916. The architectural firm was Stewart & Whitton, the general contractor was W.H. Cooper, and the total cost was $146,569.19

In 1917 it was flanked by the East and West Pavilions which were used for patient diningrooms and vocational workshops. They were also paid for by a grant from the Dominion Government.

In 1933, a central heating plant was installed to supply heat and hot water for all buildings at the Brow.

In 1947 the bed capacity was doubled by enclosing verandahs and sunrooms.

In 1958 an Order in Council permitted the Hamilton Health Association to operate a general hospital and a hospital for the chronically ill at Brow. On January 17,1959 a renovated Brow Infirmary was reopened as the Hospital for Convalescent and Chronic Care Patients. Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson officiated. An open house followed until 5 pm. The cost of the renovations was roughly $440,000. Furnishings and equipment were approx. $60,000. By early 1960 it was fully occupied.

• Crerar Reception Hall
  

It was the fourth building to be constructed in the orchard in 1906 after the three patient shacks. The cost of $1,500 was donated by Mr. and Mrs. P.D. Crerar. It was a white wooden structure with a porch, 35 x 19 feet. It was used for church services and recreational purposes. Mr. P.D. Crerar was a member of the 1906 Board of Directors of the Hamilton Health Association, the body responsible for running the sanatorium. His wife, Mrs. P.D. Crerer was President of the 1906 Ladies Board.

When it was getting shabby and its usefulness was gone, the decision was made to tear it down. In 1927 the “Marion Crerar Daughters of the Empire Pavilion” was built to take its place as a memorial to the Crerars. The Hall was finally torn down around 1930 after 21 years of daily use.

• Doctor’s Shack, Dispensary and Lab ( renamed Villa St. Julian )
  

It was built in 1906 at the same time as the first patient shacks at a cost of $600. It was a little wooden cottage with a porch, painted white, very similar to the patient shacks except that it was entirely enclosed.It contained 4 rooms and provided accommodation for a dispensary, a laboratory, an examination room, plus the office and private quarters of the staff doctor.

Once a new building was available for the doctor, this was renovated for the use of patients. It was renamed Villa St. Julian. Its first patients were ten exsoldiers transferred from Gravenhurst Sanatorium to be closer to their homes. The men did so well that the Military Hospitals Commission asked the Mountain Sanatorium to treat more exsoldiers. The complex on the Brow was subsequently built for these patients.

It housed patients for 33 years until it was finally torn down in 1939. In the photograph you can see that it was located right in front of the Bruce Building.

• Dunedin Pavilion
  

It was built in 1906 to accommodate female patients. It was a small, wooden shack open to the weather on one side.  It was enlarged in 1916 and again in 1920 and 1924. It was finally torn down in Apr. 1947 after a life span of 41 years.

“Dunedin” was the name of the family home of Mr. and Mrs. P.D. Crerar, who were early benefactors of the sanatorium.

• East and West Cottages
  

The East Cottage was also referred to as the B’nai B’rith Cottage, Rehabilitation Cottage and the Miller Cottage. It was located on Miller Ave., off San Pedro Drive. The West Cottage was also referred to as the McNally Cottage, Rehabilitation Cottage, and the Beamis Cottage. It was located on Beamis Ave., off San Pedro Drive.

They were designed by the architectural firm of Husband, Wallace, Ellis, Garwood-Jones and the contractor was G.S. Wark Ltd. They each had 8,220 sq. ft of usable space. They were built and furnished for approximately $400,000. They were completed in Nov., 1971 and opened in 1972.

East Cottage was named the B’nia B’rith Cottage after the Viceroy Lodge, B’nai B’rith in recognition of their 25 years of support to the sanatorium. .

They were intended to form the basis of a residential treatment program for children 6-12 years. They were used as part of a short-term assessment, treatment and training program for emotionally disturbed children who were patients of the Child and Family Centre.

In 1991 they became a residential treatment centre for teenagers with psychiatric problems and the only hospital affiliated treatment centre for teens in Hamilton.

• East and West Pavilions
  

East Pavilion | West Pavilion

East Pavilion

At a meeting of the Board of Directors on Sept. 26, 1916, it was decided that the Hamilton Health Association would erect buildings on sanatorium property for the accommodation of soldiers who returned from World War I suffering from tuberculosis and gassed lungs. The Military Hospitals Commission and the Government of Ontario each agreed to pay half the cost, $25,000 each. The Red Cross paid for equipping the new buildings.

The Pavilions were built in 1917, each with 6,800 square feet of usable space. They provided wards, a dining room and a vocational workshop.

Vocational therapy for the solders was a very important part of their treatment. Eventually the vocational program included weaving, leatherwork, metal work, printing, machining, chair caning, furniture refinishing, picture framing, basketry and wood working.

The pavilion was enlarged in 1922, 1932 and 1950-1952.

By 1975 the building was showing its age. Various day clinics were housed in it but no patients were accommodated there anymore. It is currently used for storage.

West Pavilion

Up until the 1960′s the history of this pavilion was the same as the East Pavilion. The difference is that the West Pavilion has weathered better than the other and remains in usable condition.

In September 1968, the Hamilton and District School of Radiology opened in this Pavilion with 19 students. It remained here until the school was transferred to Mohawk College in 1972. Since then it has been used for various purposes.

• Empire Pavilion
  

This building replaced the Empire Shack which was torn down in 1926.  It was the first building at the Mountain Sanatorium to incorporate the latest ideas in sanatorium design which was the 4 patient ward with all the beds parallel to the light. It was the first building to have french doors in the rooms which permitted the patients beds to be wheeled out into the sunshine on nice days. It cost $1,200 and accommodated 34 female patients.It was officially opened on May 28, 1927 by the Mayor of Hamilton, Mr. Treleaven. Its official name was “The Marion Crerar Daughters of the Empire Building”, in memory of Marion Crerar, a former president of the Ladies Auxiliary. Mr. A.J. Crerar addressed the gathering on behalf of his family.

In 1937 it was expanded with a 6 bed wing for sick nurses. A 1947 report advised that the patient wards should now be heated.

In 1956-1957 it was renovated for use by the Hamilton Society for Crippled Children as a centre for the treatment of cerebral palsy. It currently houses the Children’s Developmental Rehabilitation Programme.

• Empire Shack
  

It was called ‘the most comfortable (shack) on the grounds.’ and it was built in 1908 for two female patients by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. It had three parts to it;two bedrooms flanking a dressing room.

In 1916, it was remodelled and expanded again through a donation by the IODE. Now it could hold up to 18 beds and it housed soldiers.

By 1927 it had outlived its usefulness and was replaced by the Empire Pavilion.

• Evel Pavilion
  

The Evel Pavilion was built in 1932 by the architectural firm Hutton & Souter for a cost of $241,637. It accommodated 155 patients and later additions increased bed capacity to 185. One of its significant features was the ‘throwback’ verandahs that made it possible for patients to be wheeled out into the sunshine and fresh air. It was named after James Joseph Evel, one of the members of the first Board of Directors elected to administer the Mountain Sanatorium in April 1906. He served as vice-president from 1907-1911 and then as president of the Board of Directors for 24 years from 1911-1932. He died before the pavilion was completed. It originally provided the admission services for the sanatorium. Evel 1, as the ground floor was known, contained admitting personnel, offices for medical records, doctors offices, x-ray, dental services, broncoscopic service, canteen, sterile supply room and beds for 18 patients. Evel II, as the second floor was known, was the admitting ward for all patients with the exception of some juvenile and diabetic cases. The top two floors, Evel III and IV, were used entirely for the surgical department and its patients. With the discovery of drug therapy to treat tuberculosis, the need for years of bedrest came to an end. The Sanatorium expended its mandate to become a general and children’s hospital.

The Chedoke General and Children’s Hospital officially started functioning on Mar. 6, 1960 in this building before the renovated Wilcox Pavilion was reopened in December of that year. In the annual report of that year, Dr. Ewart, the medical superintendent from 1947-1970, wrote “The decision to start the general hosp in the Evel Building was an extremely important one since it gave the staff the opportunity to develop general hospital procedures with a relatively small number of patients. At the same time it gave the opportunity to gather the necessary staff together so that the opening of the new hospital would be much simpler.”

In 1962 the Ellen Wanless Ewart Memorial Chapel was built here in memory of Ellen Ewart, who was Superintendent of Nurses and then Director of Nursing from, Jan. 1, 1943 until her sudden death in February 1962. She was the sister of Dr. Hugo Ewart.

In February 1963 the Evel was closed for renovations. It reopened in January 1964 as the Hamilton and District Rehabilitation Hospital. Dr. Neilson, Chairman Ontario Hospital Services Commission officiated at the ceremony. In 1967 this was moved to the newly built Holbrook Building. The Evel then become the Maternity Ward of the General Hospital, the Respiratory Unit (TB), which treated the last of the tuberculosis patients, the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Foundation and was the base for the Child and Family Centre. Since then the Evel has provided various health services to the community.

• Ewart Building (formerly the Hamilton and District School of Medical Technology)
  

The Hamilton Health Association, the governing body of the Chedoke Children’s and General Hospital as Chedoke Hospital was then named, decided in January 1962 to create the Hamilton and District School of Medical Technology. The school provided academic and practical training for 58 medical technology students in a two year program. The academic phase took place within the schools classrooms and laboratories and lasted one year. The practical phase comprised the second year where students worked in one of 16 participating hospitals. The students earned diplomas and certificates of registration in the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technicians.

With the closing of tuberculosis beds, the Southam building had been completely renovated to house a modern hospital laboratory. The hospital laboratory had been located in the Southam’s basement since 1933. The school was allocated the top floor of the newly renovated building. Although the Southam wasn’t officially reopened until February 1963, the school and its students moved in September 1962.

By 1965 the school needed more space and a new building was planned. In August 1967, Eaglewood Construction Co. Ltd. was chosen as the contractor with a bid of $1,386,500. Sod for the new building was broken in Sept. 1967.

The new three story building is located between the Southam and Evel Pavilions and fronts onto Sanatarium Road. It occupies .32 acres and has 38,7000 square feet of space. It was opened in January 1969 and was designed to accommodate 125 students.

In 1973 the Ontario government decided on the policy that educational programs should be the responsibility of educational institutions and that the Department of Health must divest itself of all its programs and schools. Consequently Chedoke Hospitals transferred its District schools to Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology. The Hamilton District School of Medical Technology was transferred on Sept. 1, 1973 at the same time as the Hamilton and District School of Nursing. The Hamilton and District School of Radiology had been transferred in September 1972.

Mohawk College then rented the building from the Hospital for the continued use of the School. Its name was changed to the Mohawk School of Medical Technology. It was also referred to as the Department of Medical Technology, Mohawk College.

When the school finally moved out, the building was taken over by the Central Business Office of Chedoke Hospital.

On December 3, 1999, the name of the building was changed to the Ewart Building, in honour of Dr. Hugo Ewart, Medical Superintendent of the Mountain Sanatorium, 1947-1970.

The lobby features a display of historical photographs of the sanatorium and a collection of Inuit artwork, which was created by Inuit patients during their stay at the sanatorium during the 1950′s.

• Grafton Infirmary
  

It was built in 1907 through a gift by Mr. J.B. Grafton and Colonel J.J. Grafton of Dundas at cost of $6,000 to accommodate 8-12 patients. It was a two story wooden building, painted white.

The annual report of that year described it. It said, ‘This building is for the reception of all new cases and for the care of other patients whose condition does not permit of them taking moderate exercise and who are confined to bed all or part of the time. The infirmary is butterfly shaped, with a bright airy ward in either wing finished and furnished after the style of a ward in any up-to-date hospital, with special provision for very free ventilation. The central part contains the reception room, nurses bedrooms, lavatories, bathroom, diet kitchen and closets. This building is heated by hot water and is equiped with hot and cold water fixtures.’

In 1911 it was expanded to house 22 patients.

In 1918 they saw the need for a further addition,”where the dying might be nursed, away from the more hopeful cases in the building”. A Mr. Ambrose stated that a death and coincident confusion depressed the patients for days. Colonel Grafton donated the money and the infirmary was expanded in 1919.

In 1947 a report concluded that it had come to the end of its usefulness in patient care. For the last 15 years of its existence it was used for storage. It was finally torn down in September of 1969. The site was commemorated with a small park called the Grafton Gardens. The Royal Canadian Legion 163, (Mountain Branch) erected a cairn in the park dedicated to all those who died for freedom. It was officially dedicated by the city, church and the Hamilton Health Association on November 11, 1969.

• Hamilton and District School of Nursing
  

This building was built by the Cooper Construction Co. for a cost of $1,939,139. Construction started in June 1964. It was officially opened on October 6, 1965 by Mrs. John P. Robarts, wife of the Premier of Ontario.

In 1973 the Ontario government decided on the policy that educational programs should be the responsibility of educational institutions and that the Department of Health must divest itself of all its programs and schools. Consequently Chedoke Hospitals transferred its District schools to Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology. The Hamilton and District School of Nursing was transferred on Sept. 1, 1973 at the same time as the Hamilton District School of Medical Technology. The Hamilton and District School of Radiology had been transferred in September 1972. Mohawk College then rented the building for the continued use of the school.

• Holbrook Pavilion
  

The Holbrook Pavilion was built in 1950/51 by the architectural firm, Husband, Robertson, Wallace, Architects. W.H. Cooper Construction Co. Ltd, was the General Contractor. It is intended to replace the old Preventorium, where children suffering from tuberculosis were treated. It had a 64 bed capacity. On the second floor was a nurses residence. It was named in honour of Dr. J.H. Holbrook who had been the medical superintendant of the Mountain Sanatorium from 1917-1945. Dr. Holbrook officiated at the sod turning ceremony which took place on August 10, 1950. The official opening was on December 15, 1951 with Mr. P.W. Gordon, Vice President of the Hamilton Health Association, officiating.

In 1964 due to changing needs, renovations begun to turn it into a rehabilitation centre. It was the last of the old sanatorium buildings to be renovated for non – tuberculosis patients. L.B. Husband, was the architect and Robertson-Yates Construction Company was the contractor.

In 1967, The Hamilton and District Rehabilitation Hospital was moved from the Evel Building where it has been operating since 1964 into the renovated Holbrook Pavilion. The Holbrook was officially reopened by Dr. Matthew B. Dymond, Minister of Health with a bed capacity of 130.

Dr. J. Howard Holbrook Medical Superintendant, 1908-1945

Dr. Howard Holbrook was the second medical superintendent of the Mountain Sanatorium, appointed in 1908 when the sanatorium was 2 years old and consisted of 7 wooden shacks in an orchard. By the time he retired, 37 years later it was a medical complex of 2 distinct parts, the Orchard and the Brow, 32 buildings and 750 beds. He expanded the medical services to include general surgery and dentistry for the tuberculosis patients. He initiated many new services that greatly improved the life of patients such as a library, a radio station with a set of headphones at every bed and occupational therapy.

Dr. Holbrook was a energetic promoter and fundraiser for the Sanatorium. He lived on site and seemed to be everywhere at once. Nothing was done that wasn’t approved and overseen by him. He devoted his whole working life to the Sanatorium and to the public health effort against tuberculosis. By the time he retired, the need for sanatoriums was waning due mostly to the successful use of drug therapy in treating tuberculosis. Unlike many sanatoriums, however the Mountain Sanatorium had the forsight to plan for the future and by 1960 it had evolved into the Chedoke General and Children’s Hospital. It was able to do this because it had the buildings, the manpower, the funds, and the foresight. Thanks in a very large way to Dr. Holbrook.

Dr. Holbrook died on Mar. 14, 1957 at the age of 82.

• Laundry / Service Building
  

This two story plus basement brick building was built in 1924 as the sanatorium laundry. The laundry had outgrown the building it had previously been located in. Construction costs were $98,000. The equipment was “state of the art” for the time and cost $21,000.

An addition in 1931 expanded the capacity of the laundry and provided accommodation for male staff. In the basement approximately 1000 laboratory animals were housed.

There were several more renovations and expansions over the years. It started being called the Service Building in 1952 when all the maintenance departments were relocated there.

The laundry operated here until 1969 when the facilities were no longer meeting the needs of the hospital. A separate company was established to serve the laundry needs of Chedoke, Hamilton Civic Hospitals and McMaster University Medical Centre. The building was then renovated for the office space of various departments.

• Long and Bisby Cottage

It was built in 1916 by Mrs Bisby and Mr. W.D.Long, the same people who donated the original farm land on which the sanatorium was built in 1906. It was a small, square frame cottage with a small porch and french windows, painted white.

It was torn down in Aug/Sept. 1926.

• Long and Bisby Nurses Residence
  

Long and Bisby was built in 1920 as a nurses residence by the architect ,W.H. Whitton and W.H. Cooper, as the contractor for a cost of $85,000. The funds were donated by Mr. W.D. Long and Mrs. George H. Bisby, the same people who donated the original land for the sanatorium in 1906. The furnishings were donated by citizens, societies and commercial institutions of Hamilton.

By 1973 it was no longer needed as a nurses residence. It was renovated and from 1973-1983 housed the Cool School, an alternative to high school now called Cornerstone Youth Services.

Since Jan. 1, 1983 it has housed the Day Care Centre for Employee’s Children.

• McLean Nurses Residence
  

The McLean Residence was a two story, wooden frame house with front and side stoops. It was located directly behind the Empire Building and was built in March 1918 at a cost of $9000. It was intended as a residence for the nurses who lived on site in the Orchard part of the Sanatorium. The first occupants were the nurses who worked the night shifts. At different times the building was called the “Nurses Home” or the “Night Nurses Home”. In 1935 it became known as the McLean Home. It was repaired and redecorated at this time.

It is possible that this residence was named for Miss Margaret McLean, who was the matron in charge of the Orchard part of the Sanatorium from 1922-1933. She came to the sanatorium in 1911 as a housekeeper and had previously been a tuberculosis patient in Muskoka. She lived in this residence and had her own sitting room as well as a bedroom. She died at the sanatorium on June 18, 1934 and her death was mentioned in the Board of Directors minutes.

In 1961 a kitchen was built and in 1962, fire escapes were added.

In 1975 it was no longer useful for accommodation. It was occupied by the offices of various researchers and a central storage area was located in the basement.

It was vacated permanently in November/December of 1994 and torn down a year later in October 1995.

• Medical Superintendent’s Residence (Residence 37)
  

On March 1, 1922, the old Macklem farmhouse where Dr. Holbrook, the medical superintendent from 1908-1946, lived burned down. Dr. Holbrook and his family lost everything except the dining room furniture which had been out on the verandah for cleaning that morning. The fire occurred around noon and faulty electrical wiring was ultimately found to blame.

Dr. Holbrook submitted a pencil sketch of the house he wanted to the Board of Directors. The plan was approved and the architect, E.C. Cooper was hired. The cost of the house all inclusive was not to exceed $13,000. The Holbrooks had conceived of a one story, rambling house but the architect and the Board decided on a more compact, elegant house with a basement, 2 main floors and an attic. The floors were hardwood and the downstairs was finished in quarter-cut oak, a gift of a fellow Rotarian, Guy Long, of the Long Lumber Co. The house was built close to the site of original farmhouse and like it, faced a drive lined with maple trees. The Holbrooks moved in on Dec. 1, 1922.

In order to keep the downstairs looking nice for entertaining, the Holbrooks moved the kitchen to the basement and finished a large adjacent room as a combination living/dining room. The Holbrooks later finished the attic and installed an upstairs bathroom which was used by their 5 children.

Dr. Hugo Ewart and his family lived here from 1947-1970. The last medical superintendent and his family to live here was Dr. James Allison, who was Executive Director of Chedoke Hospitals from 1970-1979. If you look, his name is still on the doorbell.

• Moreland Residence
  

This residence was built behind the Brow Infirmary in 1937/38 to house 60 male staff members. It was named after Mr. Moreland, who was the business manager of the sanatorium from 1917-1939. It was also referred to as the “Orderly’s Home”.

In 1962 it was renovated to house students in the School of Medical Technology.

It was closed as a residence in May 1974.

• Patterson Building
  

It was built in 1932 as a nurses residence, to house 45 nurses by the architect, William Palmer Witton at a cost of $71,301.80.

It was possibly named after Thomas Patterson, Member of the Board of Directors from 1918-1928. He died in 1928 and bequeathed $5,000 to the Mountain Sanatorium.

In 1937 it was expanded to accommodate 21 more nurses at a cost of $28,259.48. It was used as a student residence for the Hamilton and District School of Nursing, which opened in 1964, until the early 1970′s when it was decided that students should provide their own accommodation.

In 1975-76 it was renovated for office space and the first tenant was the Hamilton District Health Council.

• Preventorium
  

Very early on it was realized that child patients needed to be treated separately from adults. The Preventorium, an infirmary strictly for children, was completed by Sept. 1910. The name ‘Preventorium’ is a slight misnomer because these children did suffer from tuberculosis, but medical officials understood that early treatment of child patients would ‘prevent’ lifelong debilitation by the disease. It was also meant to isolate children with minor cases from adults with more severe tuberculosis. Most children contracted the disease from family members living together in overcrowded homes.

Initially it had one ward for boys and one ward for girls joined by a central dressing room. It was completely open to the weather on one side. It was enlarged several times over the years.

A classroom on the second floor was furnished and staffed by the Hamilton Board of Education. It was one of the first ‘Open Air’ schools in Canada. The Bruce Building was built in 1921 to provide more accommodation for the school. Children of staff members and children from the local farms also attended this school. It ran until the Preventorium was torn down in 1952 and child patients were moved to the Holbrook Building. The well children were sent to Ancaster schools and teachers came to the hospital to teach the child patients.

The Preventorium was located between the Bruce Building and the Holbrook Building.

• Southam Pavilion
  

This building was built in 1928 by the architect W.P. Witton and W.H. Cooper as contractor. It cost $114,768.92 to build and $14,457,57 to furnish and equip. These funds were donated by Mr. and Mrs. William J. Southam on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary. It had 23,460 square feet of usable space and accommodated 76 patients.

Opening day was Oct. 8, 1928 with the honours being performed by Viscount and Lady Willingdon. He said “The Hamilton Sanatorium is synonymous with the family of Southam. It is a great pleasure to think of the many individuals who realize that wealth is not only a great pleasure, but a responsibility not to be spent on selfish amusements and desires, but in an effort to try to make the lives of people around us better and more comfortable.” The dedication was done by the Very Reverend Dean Broughall and the proceedings closed by prayer by Canon Daw. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. William Southam were unveiled as the ‘Southam Memorial’

All the laboratory work for the sanatorium was done in the basement. The morgue was also located in the basement.

• Staff House
  

This was the farmhouse that was part of the original land purchase in 1906. This is the house in front of which all the dignitaries stood to have their photograph taken on Opening Day, May 28, 1906. It was located at what is now the corner of Rice and Chedmac streets quite close to the road. The Empire Pavilion was directly behind it and the Grafton Pavilion was across the lawn.

It was renovated and extended in 1907 and was known as the “Main Building”. The business office was located here as was the kitchen and dining rooms for both patients and staff, and accommodation for staff. Originally All the little white patient shacks were clustered behind it, where the Wilcox and Holbrook Pavilions now stand.

On August 25, 1925 it was partially destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt and enlarged. The dining area and staff accommodation was expanded. The telephone switchboard and the medical chart room was located here.

It was torn down during the winter of 1972.

• Stevens Shack

The Stevens Shack was constructed like all the others, as a single story, wooden shack completely open on one side and painted white. It was built in 1907 by Mr. John Stevens of Hamilton to accommodate one female patient. In 1910 it was expanded to accommodate 6 female patients.

It was torn down around 1926 when the Empire Pavilion was built.

• Villa St. Cecilia
  

It was one of the first shacks built to accommodate male patients in 1906. It was a small, wooden frame shack, completely open to weather on one side and painted white. It was named after the St. Cecilia Chapter, Daughters of the Empire, who supplied the furnishings and equipment.

It had several extensions over the years. However in 1939, after 33 years of active use, it was torn down. It was approximately located between where the Bruce and the Wilcox buildings now stand.

• Wilcox Pavilion

In January 1938 it was clear to Dr. Holbrook, the Medical Superintendent of the sanatorium, that the Mountain Sanatorium needed a second, modern building to replace the old, wooden shacks, St.Cecilia, St. Julian and Dunedin which had become increasingly inefficient and hazardous. Like the Evel Pavilion built in 1932, this new building would represent the needs of a modern sanatorium, offering complete medical services in one building including surgery and x-ray. It would also provide single rooms for patients which had long been desired.

Dr. Holbrook thought at the time that it was likely to be the last building erected by the sanatorium. Therefore it had to be carefully planned. It was intended from the very outset to be closely modeled on the Evel Pavilion.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seward Wilcox agreed to donate the cost of the building’s construction. The Wilcoxes were long time patrons of the sanatorium. Mr. Wilcox was a member of the Board of Directors and had been since 1906. In 1923 he donated the cost of installing radio equipment and a set of earphones for each bed, a gift which provided immense education and entertainment benefits to the patients. Mrs. Wilcox had been a member of the Ladies Board since 1926.

At a meeting of the Board of Directors on January 31, 1938 when the donation was announced, J.P. Bell, a member of the Board of Directors said, ‘In making possible the erection and equipment of “The Wilcox Pavilion”, the donors will have helped the Directors of the Association to complete their vision of a group of modern, fireproof buildings fully equipped in the light of experience and research, to continue to pursue the object of their existence – the ultimate control of tuberculosis.’

Mr. Souter of Hutton and Souter Architects was chosen as the architect. This firm had previously designed the Evel Pavilion. W.H. Cooper Construction Co. was chosen as the general contractor. A bequest by Mr. Frank G.C. Fisher of Dundas, Ont. was used to furnish the Pavilion.

On April 18, 1938, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, Mrs. Toby C. (Jane) Stuart, presided at the sod turning ceremony. On Monday, July 18 at 4 p.m., they held a ceremony marking the laying of the cornerstone of the new pavilion. Mr. C.S. Wilcox had died on June 6, 1938 so his daughter, Mrs. Toby C. (Jane) Stuart and his 1 year old grandson, Wilcox Stuart presided. The service was performed by Venerable Archdeacon W.F. Wallace, M.A., B.D. Inside the cornerstone was placed a time capsule in a slender metal box.

On December 1, another ceremony was held to officially transfer the first patients into the new building. Mrs. C.S. Wilcox attended to welcome them. The first patient was Miss Doris Love. On Saturday, January 7, 1939, the official opening of the Wilcox Pavilion took place, presided over by the Hon. Albert Mathews L.L.D., Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

The Wilcox Pavilion was designed to accommodate 174 patients in 9 wards, 4 double rooms and 8 single rooms. The ground floor was designed for public space and administrative offices.

In 1958, due to falling numbers of tuberculosis patients, the charter for the Hamilton Health Association was broadened to allow it to administer a general hospital where many ailments, not just tuberculosis were treated. In 1959, the Board of Directors decided to renovate the Wilcox Pavilion for use as a 226 bed general hospital with Husband & Wallace, Architects and the Pigott Construction Co. as contractor. The Chedoke General and Children’s Hospital was opened on December 6, 1960. Dr. Alexander D. Unsworth, the first medical superintendent of the Mountain Sanatorium, 1906-1907, Hamilton Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson, and the Honourable M.B. Dymond, Minister of Health for the Province of Ontario officiated. The first patients were admitted on December 13 with surgery starting immediately.

In April 1961, a new auditorium was added to the Wilcox. It was named the Nash Lecture Hall in memory of Oliver McKay Nash who left the residue of his estate (after the death of his widow) for the erection of a building in his memory. Mrs. Nash agreed to the name in her lifetime.

Due to reduced levels of pediatric services, in 1974 the name, Children’s Hospital was now considered misleading. Therefore the Board of Directors decided to change the name to Chedoke General Hospital.