From an old postcard.
Was this the hospital on the east side near the river?
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I found this information on the internet: “…the southwest corner of Jefferson and Mt. Elliott Avenues, with a frontage of two hundred and seventy-four feet on Jefferson Avenue…”
They even have a sketch of the hospital which matches the photograph you posted. The Public Health Service Website says the hospital was closed converted to a clinic in 1969 and closed in 1981, although I suspect it wasn’t the original building.
It was at this URL:
http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/Farmer/default.asp?ID=s015
Correction, the Hospital converted to a clinic, but by the time it closed, it had been moved to another location further to the East, near Harbor Island.