In the summer of 1847, at a time when the City of Toronto had a population of no more than 20,000 inhabitants, some 38,560 Irish migrants fleeing the Great Famine landed on the city’s waterfront, many of them ill with…
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George Robert Grasett was born in Lisbon in 1811, the second of six sons to a British military surgeon Dr. Henry Grasett and his wife Ann Bligh Stevenson. Upon his retirement in 1814, Dr. Grasett moved his family to Quebec…
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Grasett Park
Dr. Grasett was not the only caregiver who paid the ultimate sacrifice during 1847. The following individuals contracted typhus in the course of their work caring for patients at the Emigrant Hospital and fever sheds in 1847, and subsequently died…
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Text by Denegri Bessai Studio, Architechts of Grasett Park With little physical evidence remaining, Toronto’s first General Hospital and the dramatic 1847 typhus epidemic (including dedication and sacrifice of the healthcare workers) had been largely forgotten by the public. The construction…
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