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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foundation stone of the new hospital laid by then-Premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis, 2 May 1953. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Mann Fonds, 2017-0001.04.2.11

Photograph showing the hospital’s updated Royal Charter, now lost, c. 1825. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1574

« Montréal – Scènes en face de l’hôtel-de-ville, par les anti-vaccinateurs, dans la soirée du 28 septembre », Le Monde illustré, vol. 2, no 76, 17 octobre 1885, p. 185. BAnQ