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.

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"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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  • Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (July 2017)

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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