I took this photo last Thursday, and for some reason forgot to post it earlier this week… The news I heard earlier that the entire structure is now down, reminded me about this picture. This was the last stand. A lot of history gone…
Have a safe and happy Canada Day weekend everyone! Because of the holiday there will be no post Monday. See you back here Wednesday!
Myself and my sister were born here and my brother was born here in the final days. Glad I got to do an explore here but I would have liked to spend more time in it’s empty shell. Felt kinda weird knowing that at one point I stood in the exact spot I was born in.
This was a working viable hospital and it was destroyed by strange bedfellows and politics. Someone should be in jail and not the scapegoat.
I was born there, and for a summer I worked there, as well. I did housekeeping, so I got to see most of what was still operating at the time. I even cleaned one of the delivery rooms, but I don’t know if it was the one I was born in. I also cleaned the room my Mom was in after I was born. At that time, there was only about 3 floors that were still operating. I couldn’t even get to an abandoned floor, without a supervisor key.
I saw on Facebook that the last bit of it came down the other day. Another sign of a shrinking city, I guess.
Good riddance. What a debacle this has been. It only gets better from here. Right? Right!
Birthplace of Shania Twain
Agree with mark, how is one less hospital a good thing when we keep opening up new clinics? I thought the health sector was expanding.. fishy indeed
the Liberals keep talking about this so called super hospital does Met and Hotel Dieu share the same fate as Grace did sitting derelict for years although I don’t think this will happen for a lllooonnnggg time
“Birthplace of Shania Twain” – except that the City of Timmins – which liked to stake its claim to Twain’s fame as the town she grew up in – decided to let the museum devoted to her, along with an interesting gold mine tour, disappear to allow development of a strip mine. Shania Twain just doesn’t impress that much anymore.
I was born there in late October, 1941. My mother died three hours later. Not much of an exchange but my Dad carried on with me for almost 30 years until his death (at Hotel-Dieu) in June of 1972. He was 83 and had been a widower before. More of us should have his spirit and faith. RIP Dad and Mom.
Is there a directory of the births at Grace?
What a loss, and megahospital will not happen anytime soon. First we need to see that the bigbox development at Ojibway goes smoothly, then maybe we can focus on what’s really important. Goodbye hospital and goodbye wildlife, hello empty commercial real estate.
more parking! yeah!
What a loss, and megahospital will not happen anytime soon. First we need to see that the bigbox development at Ojibway goes smoothly, then maybe we can focus on what’s really important. Goodbye hospital and goodbye wildlife, hello empty commercial real estate.
My mom was a nurse there starting in 1954.
Politicians have no training in what they do yet we hand them descisions that affect our lives and communities….
SHANIA TWAIN WAS BORN IN THAT HOSPITAL!!!!
So sad to see this hospital go .The nurses that worked there were caring very caring . My 3 boys were born there and I got very good care . My first son was born a few days before Elvis had died all of us women and the nurses were crying , the husbands felt out of place .I had my sons in other hospital and they got hurt while they were in them and when asked how it happened they didn’t know . It just seem nurses at grace took their job serious and was right on everything . It’s ashamed they had to close Grace .
i’m beting that the Grace site sits vacant for 20 years either a parking lot or a weed infested praire… we need to change the city signs from the city of roses to the city of unlimited parking
I agree Gary.
Such a shame; Grace Hospital was the nicest hospital we had. That beautiful building could have been put to good use. Windsor is ALL about tearing down anything of historical value. It’s absolutely disgusting. Downtown is a JOKE. All Windsor is is a bunch of bars, a casino and bingos. If it weren’t for my kids, friends and job, I would have left here years ago.
Would anyone know if the bricks from Grace Hospital are still for sale somewhere. I just heard they were selling them back when but missed the opportunity. I was born at Grace and my mother stayed at Faith Haven; does anyone have pictures of the that building. This is going back to 1949.
Help with this would be greatly be appreciated.
I too was born at Grace in ’49. My mother stayed in the Faith Haven home next door until she was well enough to go home. I was then adopted. Ironically 18 yrs later, I took a Nurses’ Aide course at Grace. I worked there , then Riverview Hospital, then Hotel Dieu as a certified Nurse’s Aide….now a lost profession, sorely missed by not only the patients but the RNs and other medical staff. We, the “aides” were the nightingales of backrubs, clean beds everyday, sponge baths, BPs and temps read daily, enemas, carbolizing beds , all the things RNs do not have time to all do these days. The quality of care back then was stellar and I loved the work. Proud to say I was part of it. I’d love to know more about Faith Haven though if anyone can provide me with this info. Thank you