Article content Staff at St. Mary’s Hospital gathered in the cafeteria on Wednesday to dig into a massive cake marking the hospital’s 100th anniversary this year, but some have had more than birthday cake and balloons on their minds. A considerably more formal St.
Mary’s Ball, the annual fundraiser for the hospital’s foundation, takes place Nov. 1 at the Gare Windsor to mark the milestone anniversary. Senator John F.
Kennedy, second from left, and his wife, Jacqueline, attend the St. Mary’s Ball in 1954. Courtesy of St.
Mary's Hospital St. Mary’s had fairly modest beginnings, founded in 1924 by Dr. Donald Hingston and the city’s Irish Catholic community in the 30-room Shaughnessy mansion on René-Lévesque Blvd.
(formerly Dorchester), part of which today is the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Ten years later, the hospital uprooted to its current location on Lacombe Ave. in the Côte-des-Neiges area.
St. Mary’s first opened in 1924 as a 24-bed hospital in the Shaughnessy House on René-Levesque Blvd., formerly Dorchester Blvd.
The building currently houses the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Courtesy of St. Mary's Hospital While its roots were initially faith-based, the officially bilingual St.
Mary’s, primarily serving the city’s West End, was to quickly establish itself as a community hospital providing its services to patients in more than 40 languages. In spite of the chaos so often synonymous with health care in this province, St. Mary’s has .
