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The Women's College Hospital in Toronto that Smillie helped found as the Ontario Medical College for Women. Jennie Smillie Robertson (February 10, 1878 – February 26, 1981), known throughout her career as Jennie Smillie, was the first Canadian female surgeon and also performed the country's first major gynecological surgery.
Women's College Hospital began as Woman's Medical College in 1883. On June 13, 1883, Dr. Emily Stowe (1831–1903) [2] the second woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada – led a group of her supporters to a meeting at the Toronto Women's Suffrage Club, stating "that medical education for women is a recognized necessity, and consequently facilities for such instruction should be provided."
Toronto Central Prison: 1873 1915 Toronto (Don) Jail: 1864 2014 Toronto Municipal Farm for Women (Concord) 1912 1939 Toronto West Detention Centre: 1978 2014 Toronto Youth Assessment Centre (see also Mimico Correctional Centre Chronology) Trafalgar Jail Victoria Industrial School for Boys (see also Mimico Correctional Centre Chronology ...
The separate area (later for those 16 years and younger) was known as the Industrial Refuge for Girls from 1880 to 1905 and the Ontario Training School for Girls from 1952 to 1960. The refuge was intended for girls who were orphans, found homeless or begging, considered uncontrollable by her parents, or who had become wards of the province due ...
Area codes 647 and 437 are additional area codes for the same numbering plan area (NPA), forming an overlay numbering plan. The incumbent local exchange carrier in the numbering plan area is Bell Canada. Almost all Toronto Bell Canada landlines have area code 416, with 647-numbers allocated disproportionately to a growing mobile telephone ...
Wellesley Hospital (1942–2001); Central Hospital 1957 as a private care centre and later became Sherbourne Health Centre in 2003. [1]The Doctor's Hospital (1953–1997) – merged with Toronto Western Hospital in 1996, merged again with Toronto General Hospital and closed in 1997; site at 340 College Street now home to Kensington Health, a long-term care facility and hospice for seniors. [2]
Annesley Hall is the all-female residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto. The residence is located across from the Royal Ontario Museum and is designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [1] Built in 1903 in the Queen Anne style, Annesley Hall is the first university residence built for women in Canada. [2]
The area includes the main campuses of the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, as well as university affiliated health-care research hospitals including the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Women's College Hospital, and the MaRS Discovery District.