Mr C.J. Eames offered to donate his Deer Park Golf Club property to build West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in 1942. The clubhouse would be transformed into an 18-bed hospital, if the citizens of Grimsby could raise enough money for the work. The hospital opened in 1946, and on January 29, 1948, it burned down. The hospital operated temporarily out of Nixon Hall and the present building constructed.
The first sod for the present building was turned on August 12, 1948, and excavating started in the peach orchard. Cornerstone laying was done by Hon. Russel T. Kelley, then Minister of Health, on Sunday, October 3, 1948. The opening date was October 23, 1949.
The hospital was dedicated to the Veterans of the First and Second World War from the Grimsby and West Niagara region. It was thought that there could be no more fitting way of honouring the dead than by dedicating a monument to the living, of present and future generations, serving the whole area of six towns and township.
