Series consists of miscellaneous publications or documentation collected or created by the Department of Public Affairs & Communications during their regular course of business.

File 3.4.1 contains memoirs from Dr. E.A. McCulloch, which were excerpted into UHN News (both print and online versions) in 2008. It also includes a series of anecdotes of Dr. McCulloch’s interactions with notable people: J.C.B. Grant, Arthur Worth Ham, L. Siminovitch, Roscoe Graham, K.J.R. Wightman, Ian MacDonald, Harold Johns, and William Boyd.

File 3.4.2 was originally sent to Dr. Bob Bell from Dr. Bernard S. Goldman and includes a hand-written note explaining the origins of the sculpture on Elizabeth Street.

File 3.4.4 contains three issues of Strategic Directions@uhn, a periodic update published by Public Affairs and Communications about the UHN Strategic Directions long-term planning process. These are from June 2011, Fall 2011, and Winter 2002.

File 3.4.6 contains issues 1 and 2 of Vision Insight, the newsletter of the Joint Oncology Program of The Toronto Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital. There are two versions of Volume 1, Number 1 in this file—one dated February 19, 1996 and one dated February 26, 1996. The content of the two versions is similar with some changes to content, formatting and style.

The first Annual General Meeting for the University Health Network occurred on September 15th, 1999. Series includes the contents of a binder labeled “Annual General Meeting Minutes Jun 1947-2005”. This binder included minutes of the University Health Network’s Annual General Meetings (1999-2005) as well as the minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Subscribers of its predecessor corporations The Toronto Hospital (1987-1998) and the Toronto General Hospital (1947-1986). The original purpose of these meetings was to elect Trustees. The annual meeting was extended to several meetings in 1947 and 1949 due to a lack of nominations. Minutes from September 17, 1997 are missing. Most minutes are signed originals.

Series consists of photographs documenting the destruction of the TGH Bell Wing and the construction of the Clinical Services Building. These photographs were taken by Dr. Cowan from his offices across the street at Cancer Care Ontario (620 University Avenue, Toronto, 15th and 13th floors) from May 2001 to July 2003, in order to document the event. Eight of these pictures were used by UHN’s Public Affairs Department at the official opening of the Clinical Services Building. Photographs had been arranged by Dr. Cowan in a binder entitled <i>Toronto General Hospital Pictures Before & After</i> and divided by film number and date. These divisions are reflected in the file titles.

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.

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.

Series consists of minutes of the TGH and TTH Board of Trustees. Minutes from 1822-1994 are in 39 bound volumes. Minutes from 1995-1998 were kept loose in binders. As of the meeting of October 1986, a joint meeting of the Boards of both the Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Western Hospital, the minutes change from being for the TGH Board of Trustees to those of the TTH Board of Trustees. It was at that meeting that the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and Secretary for the new Board of Trustees for The Toronto Hospital were elected. However, all minutes continued to be bound identically and labeled as Minutes of Meetings for the Board of Trustees of the Toronto General Hospital. Minutes for the period of May 1848 to February 1866 are missing. Several items and appendices are also missing from the minutes for July, September and December 1997. A sheet listing the items missing from 1997 can be found in file 8.1.61 along with the minutes for January 1997.

Series consists of two separate accessions of material related to the Toronto General Hospital and accumulated by the Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief.

Files 6.1.1 to 6.1.2 consist of a half-filled bound volume of signatures spanning the time period of April 5, 1935 to January 16, 1959, and an accompanying 5 page description of its history by Ronald J. Baird, Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto, and Senior Cardiovascular Surgeon at The Toronto Hospital. The book of signatures is a combination visitors’ register/attendance book with groups of signatures that do not always indicate the occasion. Some of the occasions noted include post-graduate courses and club meetings, such as for the Interurban Orthopaedic Club, McGill Toronto Surgical Club, and the Cardiovascular Surgeons Club. Notable signatories include Evarts A. Graham, Charles H. Best, Gordon Murray, Frederick G. Banting, Wilder Penfield, and Norman Bethune. Regarding the first pages of this volume, Dr. Baird remarks in his description, “what a galaxie [sic] of future stars in Toronto Surgery!” Dr. Baird’s description gives extensive details as to how the volume came to be in his possession before being passed onto Surgeon-in-Chief, Dr. Paul Walker.

Files 6.1.3 to 6.1.5 consist of various agreements and indentures that were originally kept in one file folder. The file had originally been in the possession of Dr. Alan Hudson, McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief at The Toronto Hospital from 1989-1991, and President and Chief Executive Officer, from 1991-2000. The file had been passed onto his successor Dr. Paul Walker, Vice President Surgical Directorate and Surgeon-in-Chief of The Toronto Hospital during a transfer of office either when Dr. Hudson became President and Chief Executive Officer (1991) or when Dr. Paul Walker resigned as the James McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief (March 31, 1999) to become Vice-President of the Toronto General Hospital (April 1, 1999). Subsequently the file came to be held by Dr. Walker’s successor as McCutcheon Chair in Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief & Director of Surgical Services at University Health Network, Dr. Bryce Taylor (April 1, 1999- ).

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.

Series consists of two files of documentation related to the merger between the Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Western Hospital accumulated by the Vice-President, Finance, Mr. J. Elliott. Records in file 5.3.1 include correspondence and reports on the positions of various University of Toronto and Hospital Departments regarding the proposed merger; scattered issues of Merger News, a newsletter produced by the office of W. Vickery Stoughton, President, TGH; copies of draft merger agreements; news releases; related appendices from Board of Trustees meetings; the final version of the Report of the Marotta Committee Regarding the TGH-TWH Merger; and newspaper clippings. Records in file 5.3.2 include copies of various Bills and Bylaws; a copy of a Banking Resolution approved by the Board of Trustees at its monthly meeting on December 16, 1986; a list of Board of Trustees with information on when they were first appointed and their base hospital; and Terms of Reference and membership lists of the various Committees of the Board as of October 21, 1986.

Series consists of minutes from the Ambulatory Care Committee and its various subcommittees and/or related committees. Series also includes copies of presentations given to the Committee by various departments within the hospital.

File 7.5.1 includes minutes from the Community Culture Conscious Subcommittee and the House Staff-Liaison Committee. File 7.5.2 includes minutes from the Community Services Subcommittee. File 7.5.3 includes minutes from the Emergency Subcommittee. File 7.5.4 includes minutes from the Executive Committee of the Medical Advisory Board. File 7.5.5 includes minutes from the Community Service Subcommittee. File 7.5.6 includes minutes from the Community Services Subcommittee.