Quinte Health Care Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital

Municipality/Province: Picton, ON

Memorial number: 35069-085

Type: Building

Address: 403 Main Street East

GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.0155572 Long: -77.1366166

Submitted by: Victoria Edwards

In June of 1908, the Sir Thomas Picton Chapter, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire contributed money towards a hospital. Many other groups and individuals joined in this effort. The Prince Edward County Hospital was incorporated on April 6, 1918. It was a nine-bed hospital with an operating room in the George Alcorn House on Hill Street in Picton, on April 17, 1919. Having grown to a 58-bed hospital, it was moved to its present location, renamed Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital and officially opened and dedicated on October 14, 1959.

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Quinte Health Care
Prince Edward
County Memorial

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Date modified:: 2021-04-01