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Officers Mess at Airport - St. Thomas Convalescent Hospital
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- March 20, 1947
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_1009
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 47-936 (2_1009)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_1009
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- March 20, 1947
- Publication
- 2_1009 published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on March 22, 1947, page nine.
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Officers Mess building at the Yarmouth Centre Airport, New Sarum, which was sold by the War Assests Corporation to St. Thomas to be used as a convalescent hospital.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal: 'Airport Building to Become St. Thomas Convalescent Hospital: When civic and hospital officials here began dickering for a building at the Yarmouth Centre Airport which might be purchased from War Assets Corporation and converted into a convalescent hospital, they favored a two-story H-shaped building completed just as the war came to an end in the summer fo 1945. War Assts Corp. said they could have it.
But officials of the hospitals devision of the Ontario Department of Health preferred a one-storey building three of four years older which has served as the student and staff officers' quarters.
Fortunately, War Assets Corp. said they would sell it in place of the other two-story building, and the deal is now being put through.
The Department of Health, in addition to preferring the onestory building, which is pictured above showing the south front facing on the airport, recommended that the building should be purchased together with its present site, which is only about three and a half miles east of the city. Negotiations toward this end are also under way.
Mayor Bruce Caldwell, who is pressing the deal to early completion, hopes to see the building converted inside three months and to have it in use by 25 to 30 convalescent and chronic cases from the Memorial Hospital, whose removal from there would materially relieve the congestion which has existed there for many months."
- Name Access
- New Sarum (Ont.)
- Yarmouth (Ont. : Township)
- St. Thomas Airport
- Memorial Hospital
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Hospitals
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B2 2_301
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