Hotel Dieu Hospital. This photo postcard was taken ca 1907. The “new” St. Paul’s Home for the aged is on the left. The Hotel Dieu Hospital is in the centre, and on the right is part of Ivy Hall (former home of John Sandfield Macdonald) which was situated on the corner of York and Water Street.) Ivy Hall, home of Ontario’s first Premier, was the original location of the Hotel Dieu. Ivy Hall was later transformed into the nurse’s residence. Note the little girl standing on the frozen canal. A renovated brick stable with a cupola on the roof can be seen, set back from the road, between St. Paul’s Home and the hospital. On February 9, 1898, a year after they arrived in Cornwall, the Sisters opened a home for the aged in this brick stable. This was the original St. Paul’s home but within eight years the need for additional beds for the elderly saw the building of the new facility (left) and the brick “stable” was eventually demolished.
~ Lily Worrall Collection