Royal Victoria Hospital (Montreal)
| Royal Victoria Hospital Hôpital Royal Victoria |
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| McGill University Health Centre | |
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 Location in Montreal (Glen site)
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| Geography | |
| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Coordinates | 45°28′19″N 73°36′10″W / 45.471851°N 73.602716°WCoordinates: 45°28′19″N 73°36′10″W / 45.471851°N 73.602716°W |
| 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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 Location in Montreal
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| 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 |
| 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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