This week’s Throwback Thursday Pic is of the former Salvation Army Grace Hospital located at the corner of Crawford and University Avenues. The photograph was taken sometime in the early 1970s.The hospital opened its doors on February 1^st, 1920. This was the first general hospital in Canada that was operated by the Salvation Army. The hospital closed in February 1^st 2004, after providing 84 years of service to Windsor and Essex County. The structure was eventually demolished in the spring of 2013. Today the site is vacant waiting on future development. If you are interested in other historic images of Windsor, please visit the library’s digital exhibits page “Windsor’s History and Pictures” at https://windsorpubliclibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/.

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