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Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal

Royal Victoria Hospital
Hôpital Royal Victoria
McGill University Health Centre
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Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal is located in Montreal
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Location in Montreal (Glen site)
Geography
Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Coordinates 45°28′19″N 73°36′10″W / 45.471851°N 73.602716°W / 45.471851; -73.602716Coordinates: 45°28′19″N 73°36′10″W / 45.471851°N 73.602716°W / 45.471851; -73.602716
Organization
Care system RAMQ (Quebec medicare)
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds 517
Speciality General medicine, Surgery, Organ Transplantation
History
Founded 1893
Links
Website http://muhc.ca/royalvic/
Lists Hospitals in Canada
Original Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
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Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal is located in Montreal
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Location in Montreal
General information
Type hospital
Architectural style Scottish baronial
Address 687 Pine Avenue
Town or city Montreal
Country Canada
Coordinates 45°30′30″N 73°34′53″W / 45.50826°N 73.58145°W / 45.50826; -73.58145
Completed 1893
Relocated 2015
Technical details
Material Montreal limestone
Design and construction
Architect Saxon Snell

The Royal Victoria Hospital (French: Hôpital Royal Victoria), popularly known, the "Royal Vic" or "The Vic", is a hospital, forming part of the McGill University Health Centre, affiliated with McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Since 2015, it has been housed at the Glen Site, named for the former Glen railway yards.

The Royal Victoria Hospital was established in 1893 in the historic Golden Square Mile through donations by two public-spirited Scottish immigrants, the cousins Donald Smith, 1st Lord Strathcona, and George Stephen, 1st Lord Mount Stephen. In 1887, they announced a joint gift of C$1,000,000 for the construction of a free hospital in Montreal and purchased a site on Mount Royal for a further C$86,000. The site they bought was the old Frothingham estate that covered ten acres of land. During 1897 and 1898, Smith and Stephen gave another C$1,000,000 between them in Great Northern Railroad securities to establish an endowment fund to maintain the hospital. Stephen and Smith attached one caveat to their generous contribution to the City of Montreal: the hospital's land and its buildings must only ever be used for healing.


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