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CA ON00343 RG 1 · Record group · 1986 - 2000

The record group includes 14 fonds:
TH 1. Nursing Education and Research Department fonds
TH 2. Department of Public Affairs and Communications fonds
TH 3. Status of Women Committee fonds
TH 4. Medical/Legal Affairs fonds
TH 5. Finance Directorate fonds
TH 6. Surgical Directorate fonds
TH 7. Medical Advisory Committee fonds
TH 8. Board of Trustees fonds
TH 9. Office of the President fonds
TH 10. Joint Hospital/University Relations Committee fonds
TH 11. Office of the Chief Operating Officer fonds
TH 12. Department of Strategic Planning fonds
TH 13. Office of the Executive Vice-President fonds
TH 14. The Toronto Hospital Auxiliary fonds

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CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 11-11.1 · Series · 1985-1995
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of the correspondence, reports, and committee minutes from the Office of TTH Chief Operating Officer/Executive Vice-President between 1985 and 1995.

The records were stored together in a filing cabinet and were arranged in alphabetical order with the exception of files 11.147-11.154 which were stored in binders on top of the cabinet. These files can be found listed at the end of the series with notes indicating the name of the original binder.

File 11.1.15 includes a 1993 report from the TTH Committee on the Status of Women. This file also contains a consolidated action plan based on reports from the Committee on the Status of Women, the Committee on Access for Persons with Disabilities, and the Task Force on Racial Equality.

File 11.1.43 includes a report entitled “Present Status and Future Directions of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The Toronto Hospital” dated December 1990.

File 11.1.47 includes presentations from the departments of General Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Trauma, Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Opthalmology, and Psychiatry to the Long-Range Planning Committee.

File 11.1.48 includes a report from the Department of Otolaryngology to the Long-Range Planning Committee.

File 11.1.50 includes a report entitled “Consolidated Rheumatology Planning for The Toronto Hospital” dated 1989. The file also includes a “Toronto Western Master Plan Update” prepared by Karlsburger Companies which is dated June 1, 1988.

File 11.1.52 includes 1986 minutes from the Master Plan Steering Committee.

File 11.1.60 includes a report of the final recommendations of the Monitoring Equipment Committee which is dated December 1993.

File 11.1.63 contains a report from the Multicultural Health Advisory Committee which is dated May 1, 1995. File also includes a report entitled “External Review of the Biochemistry Department” dated September 1994.

File 11.1.66 contains a report on the Pettit Endowment Fund (1983-1987) dated December 1987.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 12 · Fonds · 1987-1989
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Fonds consists of minutes from various strategic planning committees and outgoing correspondence from Michael J. McCartney, Corporate Director of Strategic Planning. The minutes were accumulated by McCartney who served on many of the planning committees.

The fonds includes two series:

12.1 Planning Committees
12.2 Correspondence

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Planning Committees
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 12-12.1 · Series · 1987-1989
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

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.

Correspondence
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 12-12.2 · Series · 1989
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of outgoing correspondence from Michael J. McCartney, Corporate Director of the Strategic Planning department. Files include correspondence to department heads, planning committees, and the President of TTH on matters such as estimates on cost savings and bed numbers, committee business, updates on the implementation process, planning priorities and guidelines, and financial statistics on various departments.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 13-13.1 · Series · 1986-1991
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence accumulated by William Louth who served as TTH Executive Vice-President from 1986 to1992. Most files relate to the TGH/TWH Merger.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2 · Fonds · 1986-2000
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by The Toronto Hospital Department of Public Affairs and Communications. The fonds includes 12 series:

2.1 The Toronto Hospital annual reports
2.2 Caring
2.3 Correspondence
2.4 Photographs
2.5 News Releases
2.6 Medical Staff Bulletins
2.7 Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine
2.8 Archives and Historical Committee
2.9 Miscellaneous publications and minutes
2.10 Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital
2.11 Western Hours
2.12 Scrapbooks

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CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.1 · Series · 1987-1998
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of the annual reports of The Toronto Hospital Corporation, prepared and published by TTH Department of Public Affairs and Communications on behalf of TTH Board of Trustees.

Reports contain such information as lists of administrative and medical staff; statistics and/or departmental reports illustrating major hospital functions, services and activities; summary reports by the chairman of the Board of Trustees and the President identifying and describing significant TTH accomplishments and events; annual financial statements outlining the Hospital’s revenues and expenses; photographs and illustrations depicting Hospital buildings, facilities, services and staff.

Caring
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.2 · Series · 1989-1997
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of copies of <i>Caring</i>, the TTH weekly staff newsletter. <i>Caring</i> was first published April 7, 1989, replacing <i>Generally Speaking</i>, the staff newsletter of the Toronto General Hospital (Sub-series 7.1, The Toronto General Hospital fonds).

The newsletter contains news and announcements, including staff appointments and retirements; special events; changes to Hospital services and facilities, organizational charts, obituaries etc.

Files 2.2.8 to 2.2.9 contain some of the master copies of the issues.

There are some errors in issue numbering. Some issues are also missing.

Correspondence
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.3 · Series · 1986-1996
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of correspondence sent and received by Department staff including newsletters, minutes, and newspaper clippings.

File 2.3.2 includes TTH Abuse Policies.

File 2.3.12 contains a photograph of Dr. Robson.

Photographs
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.4 · Series · 1986-1999
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

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

News releases
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.5 · Series · 1993-1998
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of news releases issued by the Department of Public Affairs and Communications. The releases cover a variety of news items such as research developments, information sessions, and events taking place at TTH.

Medical Staff Bulletins
CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.6 · Series · 1987-1995
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of bulletins produced on behalf of Medical Affairs by the TTH Department of Public Relations and Communication. The bulletins contained news and announcements to TGH medical staff including appointments, retirements, research and publications, warnings, updates on department procedures, and alerts of revised guidelines and policies. Volume 21, 1992 has not been transferred to the Archives.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.7 · Series · 1993-1998
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of correspondence and reports from the curator of the Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine, as well as miscellaneous publications accumulated by the Curator. File 2.7.14 to 2.7.17 consists of material donated to the Museum by Dr. John Desmond in October 1997. These materials relate to his privately produced booklets on the history of medicine in Toronto. File 2.7.18 includes a letter from Margaret Best to Dr. Bill Bigelow explaining the history of the photograph of Banting and Best on the roof of the UofT medical sciences building with one of the diabetic dogs (Marjorie?) used in experiments with insulin , and a copy of the booklet TGH 150 Years (1829-1979) with notations.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.8 · Series · 1986-2000
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, historical records and photographs created or collected by the Archives and Historical Committee. Material from the Department of Medical Photography and files from the Public Relations Photo and Slide Library are interspersed within these files. Some of this may be due to the dual roles of Committee members, but in the case of files 2.8.49 to 2.8.57 they appear to be files borrowed by the Chair of the Committee. No attempt has been made to rearrange these files according to their original provenance.

File 2.8.1 includes 2 photographs of Nuclear Cardiology from the early 1980s.

File 2.8.2 contains a photograph of a construction site at TGH in July 1977 and a patient handbook from TGH from [198-?].

Files 2.8.10 to 2.8.13 were originally kept in one binder and probably belonged to Peter Edwards, who was at one point Chairman of the Historical Committee. File names are taken from the divider titles.

File 2.8.16 includes a guide for the della Robia style plaques which hung in the Outpatient Clinical in the Mulock/Larkin Wing of the Toronto General Hospital.

File 2.8.30 includes copies of photographs from the 1940s that were made in 1978.

CA ON00343 RG 1-TH 2-2.9 · Series · 1986-1995
Part of The Toronto Hospital record group

Series consists of publications, minutes, correspondence, reports, and staff handbooks which were accumulated by the Department of Public Affairs and Communication. Files 2.9.48 to 2.9.52 appear to be correspondence and documents sent to Gloria Bishop, Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications from the President’s Office.