Archive photos
These photos illustrate the history of SickKids.
- The first hospital, 31 Avenue Street (1875)
- Lakeside Home on Toronto Island (1883)
- The first children’s Orthopaedic Shop (1899)
- John Ross Robertson, founder of the Evening Telegram and Hospital trustee (1909)
- The District Nurse of The Hospital for Sick Children (1913)
- Old Pathology Lab (1915)
- Parents and children lining up outside the Outpatient Department (1915)
- Nurse and child on steps (1915)
- Children standing at the counter of the Hospital Dairy (1916)
- West Wing balcony of baby ward (1916)
- Making plaster bandages (1916)
- X-Ray examination (1920)
- Child with dolls (1920)
- A program of treatment for children with diabetes begins at Sick Kids shortly after Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best of the University of Toronto announced their discovery of insulin. (1923)
- Drs. Alan Brown, Fred Tisdal and Theo Drake invent Pablum, the first ready-to-use vitamin and mineral enriched baby cereal. Also being developed at this time are Sunwheat Biscuits, a high-nutrition biscuit, and enriched bread. (1930)
- Apparatus for supplying patient with oxygen (1930)
- National Dairy Council demonstrated the value of enriching milk with Vitamin D (1934)
- The "iron lung" was developed as a result of the polio epidemic (1937)
- SickKids patients on University Avenue waiting to see King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (1939)
- The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue (1951)
- Opened first hospital rooftop heliport for emergency transfer of patients (1972)
- Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to SickKids (1973)
- More photos
- Nurses in action
- The residence for nurses