Conservation / Preservation:

Archives

Archival collection contains selected administrative papers of St. Michael’s which date from its founding in 1892 to the present, including,

• architectural records, legal documents, financial documents, news clippings, maps, meeting minutes and agendas
• case files, personnel and subject files, research files, patient registers, personal and business correspondence
• scrapbooks, news clippings, sketches (drawings, etchings, cartoons, diagrams), class notes, diaries, journals, notebooks, photographs

Public Programming:

Exhibitions

Seven permanent display cases were held in Bond Street Lobby documenting the milestones and medical achievements of St. Michael’s Hospital. However, these displays have been taken down and are being re-located.

Conservation / Preservation:

 Archives

• Fonds of doctors, medical students and researchers including, Dr. Donald Henry Cowan (1940 – 2011), Dr. O Harold Warick (2006 – 2008), Dr. W.G. Bigelow (1932 – 1993), Edward Shorter (1978 – 1994), Mary E. Clarke (1937 – 1940).
• Toronto General Hospital fonds (1819 – 1986), consisting of administrative records of the administration and numerous medical departments.
• Grace Hospital Ephemera Collection (1912, 1919), which focuses on nurse training. It consists of photographs and objects related to Grace Hospital and its predecessor, the Toronto Homeopathic Hospital, and its staff and students including Grace Hospital Training School for Nurses.
• Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital fonds (1921 – 1997), includes textual records, photographs, architectural drawings, audio and video cassettes.
• Toronto Hospital Records (1986 – 2000) and Ephemera Collection (1874 – 2011), includes a wide range of textual administrative records, photographs and drawings.
• Toronto Western Hospital School of Nursing (1822 – 1998), Ephemera Collection (1909 – 1976) and Hospital fonds (1894 – 1986), consists of textual records, photographs and architectural drawings.
• University Health Network Ephemera Collection (1999 – 2011) and Record Group (1941 – 2015), includes textual records and photographs.

Public Programming:

Online

• Occasional online or travelling exhibits documenting the history of the hospital.

Other

• Participation in Door’s Open, Toronto’s architecture festival.