Front page in 1912 of Der Kanader Adler (The Canadian Eagle), Montreal’s daily Yiddish newspaper, with a photo and article about the launch of the Herzl Dispensary. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
90th anniversarySeptember 2024

90th anniversary flashback: Launch of the Herzl Dispensary, a JGH forerunner

Launched in 1912, the Herzl Dispensary provided care to Montreal’s growing Jewish population and served as a forerunner of the JGH.

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On January 24, 2016, Armande Picard was among the 203 patients who were transported their new hospital rooms in Pavilion K. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
90th anniversarySeptember 2024

90th anniversary flashback: Journey to Pavilion K reaches its climax

In 2016, after years of planning and construction, Pavilion K became the new focal point of the JGH’s critical-care and surgical activities.

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Taube Kaplan
85th Anniversary - ArchivesNovember 2019

From the archives: Taube Kaplan, a leading light in the first decades of the 20th century

Only the modest personality of Taube Kaplan kept her from being celebrated during her lifetime as a “rank-and-file” founder of the Jewish General Hospital. Today she is remembered as one of the JGH’s earliest and most important grass-roots fundraisers,

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Princess
85th Anniversary - ArchivesOctober 2019

From the archives: Visit from a princess

During the early 1940s, the JGH Auxiliary’s Honourary Patroness was Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, who was the wife of Canada’s Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone.

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In 1968, ground is broken to start construction of the ICFP. Leading the ceremony are (from left) Samuel Steinberg, President of the JGH Board of Directors; Dr. William Slatkoff, JGH Executive Director; Allan Bronfman, founding President of the Board of Directors; Bernard Bloomfield, community leader and philanthropist; and Dr. Henry Kravitz, Chief of the Department of Psychiatry.
August 2019Spotlight feature

ICFP’s 50th anniversary is a highlight of Psychiatry’s JGH timeline

The inauguration of the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry in 1969 was a pivotal event in the 73-year history of the JGH Department of Psychiatry.

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