which the need for veterans’
hospitals will no longer
arise.” With 1,200 beds and
a full range of services,
including prosthetics,
recreation, physical therapy
and rehabilitation, the staff
at Sunnybrook provided for
the medical needs of those
who had served and returned

as veterans of war.
   On 1 October 1966, the
administration of Sunnybrook
Hospital transferred from the
Department of Veterans
Affairs to the University of
Toronto. The cost of this
transfer was one silver
dollar. As a teaching
hospital and open to a much

broader community the core of
service remains with care of
Canada’s veterans. During the
next decade Sunnybrook was
transformed with the
obstetrics and gynaecology
and neonatal departments, the
first trauma and emergency
unit and fracture clinic in
Ontario, an air ambulance

program, burn unit and cancer
centre.
   Since 1948, Sunnybrook
has evolved from its original
role as Canada’s largest
Veterans’ care hospital into
an internationally recognized
centre for excellence in
health care, education, and
research. Today