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The Ontario Medical College for Women

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted March, 2011

Attached to the wall of this building at 289 Sumach Street, just north of Gerrard Street East, is this 1985 Toronto Historical Board plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.663599 -79.361581

Through the efforts of Dr. Michael Barrett, the first Dean, this college was founded at a time when other Toronto medical schools did not admit women students. In 1883 the college began with three students in a rented cottage, near the medical school of the University of Trinity College, with which it was affiliated. This building was opened on 25 April 1890, and was equipped with the best medical apparatus of the day. It is a plain, functional example of Romanesque Revival style, attributed to architects Smith and Gemmell. In 1891 there were twenty-four lecturers and demonstrators on the faculty. In 1905 women were admitted to study medicine at the University of Toronto. This college then closed, but the name is still recalled by present Women's College Hospital.

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