20th Century

This doorway to the medical library at the new site on Cedar Avenue was the entrance to the original building of the MGH erected in 1821. MGH Bulletin, 1955

Branston Generator (right), c. 1918. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2012-0204; with a clipping from the Ottawa Journal, October 19, 1918

The Completed Montreal General Hospital. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.473.2

Program for two fundraising plays organized for the MGH, 1901. Courtesy the Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Left: Page from La Presse, showing an influenza-related advisory poster from the Montreal Health Board, 11 October 1918. BAnQ; Right: COVID-19 poster published by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, July 2020

Designed by Linda Jackson

John A. Schweitzer, LLD, OSA, RCA, Centrifuge (diptych), 1995, collage on paper. Collection of the Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC.

This infographic tracks key reforms to the organization of Quebec’s healthcare system over the years. Reorganizations have the shared goal of improving accessibility, quality of care, accountability and performance over time. Designed by Linda Jackson

The chart on the left represents the cost, for the hospital, of the various levels of inpatient and outpatient care offered at the hospital as of 1949. The graph on the right clearly shows an upward trend in the hospital’s deficit, as the cost of healthcare began to rapidly increase following the war. MGH Annual Report for 1949. Designed by Linda Jackson

The chart on the left represents the cost, for the hospital, of the various levels of inpatient and outpatient care offered at the hospital as of 1949. The graph on the right clearly shows an upward trend in the hospital’s deficit, as the cost of healthcare began to rapidly increase following the war. MGH Annual Report for 1949. Designed by Linda Jackson

Calculations leading to the discovery of the BRCA-1 gene for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, courtesy of Dr. Patricia Tonin

Drs. Rae Brown (left) and David Mulder, c. 1970. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.682

Dr. Fraser N. Gurd, c. 1970. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.536.8

Dr. Rae Brown (centre) with a trauma patient in the surgical ICU, 1986. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1007.3

Dr. John H. Burgess at an inukshuk in the arctic circle, 1984. Burgess fell in love with Canada’s North, and published a book about his experiences (Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit, 2008). Courtesy of Dr. John H. Burgess

Typical 3-trailer nursing station in Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, present-day Nunavut, 1970. Photo taken by Dr. Jane Forsey during an elective for her fourth year of medical school. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.850.8

Dogsled outing to a glacier in Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, present-day Nunavut, 1970. Photo taken by Dr. Jane Forsey during an elective for her fourth year of medical school. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.850

Dr. Sandy MacPherson (in white), first director, and the Department of Community Health, 1976. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858

Dr. Sheila Linden at the NDG Clinic overseen by the MGH Community Health Department, c. 1979. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858.1

At the MGH’s 150th anniversary celebrations, 1971, with Alex Paterson, Claude Castonguay and Hon. G. Miller Hyde. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.202

Dr. Robert Kinch, left, lecturing at the Third Teaching Hospital in Peking, China, with interpreter Dr. Chang, during the Norman Bethune Visiting Professorship, 1975. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.748

Cover of the first edition of the birth control handbook, published by the Student’s Society of McGill University in 1968. McGill University Archives.

Community Health Department, Planned Parenthood display, 1977. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858

Gazette article by Elizabeth Thompson, 6 September 1989. Material republished with the express permission of: Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

Doctors and staff folding laundry during the support staff strike, 1966. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1243.9

Family Medicine Unit, c. 1975. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.805

Community Health Team (DSC), c. 1979. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858.5

Drs. Ronald Melzack, Joseph Stratford, and Mary Ellen Jeans, with clinicians and staff of the pain centre, 1970s. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.933

Physiotherapy, 1975. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.983

Occupational Therapy, c. 1980. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.172

Training of dietetic interns, c. 1970. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.895

Nancy Turner Chan, Speech Therapy and Audiology, 1979. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1067

Last graduation at Place des Arts, 1972. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Final graduating class of the MGH School of Nursing, Livingston Hall, 1972. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Tom Hum with the ceremonial noticeboard (with a frame representing the gates of Chinatown) from the MGH board of directors, 1976. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.814.3

Tom Hum in the MGH Outpatient Department, c. 1962. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.814.1

Candy Stripers, 1970s. From the photo collection of The Auxiliary of the MGH

One of the Auxiliary’s fashion shows, 1970s. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, unaccessioned.

Volunteers at the Patients’ Library, 1978. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1236

Blood Donor Clinic organized by The Auxiliary, 1976. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1246

Portrait of Lou Pacaud by Nycoll Boivin. Courtesy of The Auxiliary of the Montreal General Hospital.

L-R: Dr. Ross Hill, Barbara Whitley, and the Hon. Miller Hyde, at celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the MGH, 1971. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.222

First executive of The Auxiliary, 1950s. Image courtesy of The Auxiliary of the MGH.

Hall off the Cedar entrance of the newly constructed MGH, featuring gift shop display window curated by The Auxiliary, 1955. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.129.3

Valerie Shannon accepting the Insigne du Mérite from the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Quebec, 1997. Courtesy archives of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Quebec

Dr. Moyra Allen, 1970. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1635

Taylor grants the first-ever ANPQ license to a male nurse, Jean Robitaille, in 1970. Courtesy archives of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec

Helen Taylor, c. 1975-80. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

MacLeod, seated, 2nd from left, with members of the MGH School of Nursing student government, 1967. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Isobel MacLeod receiving her honorary doctorate from McGill, 1972. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing