The Allan Memorial Institute

The Allan Memorial Institute of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal was inaugurated in 1944. It "marked the launching of a modern Department of Psychiatry by McGill and the Royal Vic. The Hospital would be responsible for patient care, while the teaching and research would be under control of the University"¹.

"The ornate building that was to be the nucleus of a rapidly expanding Institute was formerly a mansion called Ravenscrag. Clinging to the mountainside only a few hundred feet west of the Hospital, it had been the home of shipping tycoon Sir Hugh Allan"².

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Bibliography

• Neville Terry, The Royal Vic. The story of Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital, 1894-1994, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1994, pp. 276

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Footnotes

1. Terry 1994, p. 61.

2. Terry 1994, p. 61.