16 Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 2, 1987

___ Alook at the history of Terrace hospitals

was’ started on Feb, 6, 1960, of.

A feature article in the Aug.
12 Terrace Review, highlighting

the many accomplishments of .

Dr. REM. Lee, was generaily
well received, but several long-
time Terrace residents have
pointed out that some historical
references to Terrace hospitals
were in error.

These are the straight facts, as
near as can be determined (some
accounts vary), from material
supplied by residents Don
Cooper and Mary Little.

Also, the Terrace Public
Library supplied reference
material in the form of maps
compiled by the Canadian Army

_in Dec., 1942, and “The History
of Terrace’ written by Nadine
Asante, published by the Ter-
race Public Library Association
and Nadine Asante, and printed
by Totem Press Terrace Lid.

In 1911, Dr, W. Trainer, a
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
doctor, moved from Kitselas to
Terrace and took over the Jack
Spitzl log cabin (on Kalum St.
between Lakelse Ave. and Don
Diego’s Restaurant) next to the
five-cent-to-one-dollar store.
This building served as the
hospital until Mar, 1, 1948, -

by Tod Strachan

Trainer went overseas during
the First World War, and Ter-
race was without a doctor be-
tween 1914 and 1918. Following
the war, Trainer practiced in
Terrace for one year during
which Terrace’s first ‘‘emergen-
cy hospital’? was pressed into

service in the Terrace Hotel due

_ to a major flu epidemic; ~
Trainer left for Nelson in 1919

and was followed by Grand —

Trunk’s Dr, Cairns, and a few

years later by Dr. S. Bleaker

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who used the building equipped

by Trainer.

Dr. Ewart was the practicing
physician in 1927 when the Cale-
donia Society raised enough
money to equip the small
building with a single bed and a
simple x-ray machine. -

Drs. Turple and then Brum-
mitt followed Ewart in serving
the medical needs of Terrace,
and in 1929 Dr.-Stanley Mills ar-
rived to take over the one-bed
hospital. - _

In 1936,. the preat Skeena
flood forced the United Church
to become the town’s second
“‘emergency’’ hospital. .

Dr. Mills’ single bed hospital
was overwhelmed in 1941 by the
arrival of thousands of military
troops and their families, forc-
ing the Canadian Army to build
a 300-bed military hospital: on
the bench near the present site of
Terraceview Lodge. Dr. Mills
used the military hospital for his
most serious cases until 1945,
when the troops left, the equip-
ment was removed, and the
building put up for sale, leaving
Terrace with its original one-
room hospital. .

However, the road.to Prince
Rupert was also opened in 1945

which did allow the more ||,

seriously ill patients to be
transferred to the Prince Rupert
Hospital.

Under pressure from the local
Board of Trade, the provincial
government bought the military
buildings a few years later to be
used as a home. for the elderly
they called Skeena View. .

On Dec, 15, 1945, the Terrace
Hospital Association. was form-

“ed with ‘instructions’ to-‘apply for:

a provincial charter.

Two months later, on Feb. 17, .

1946, the War Assets Corpora-
tion announced they were selling

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military buildings on what is
now called Little Ave. The
Hospital Association later
bought: one of these buildings
for $2,938 and the town’s
founder, George Little, donated
the land. However, accounts
vary regarding exactly which
building it was that they pur-
_ Chased. a
According to Asante, it was
the Army Brigade Headquarters
building, which is shown on
military maps facing Birch Hill
at the Little Ave. intersection.
According to material supplied
by Little, it was the- Brigade
Headquarters Officer’s Mess
which was on Littlé Ave. near
where the Hillside Apartments
are located. | 0
The important point, though,
‘is that the Red Cross spent

$18,000 turning the building into ; - In Terrace cou rt ; - 7 ; ' 7

a 10-bed hospital which - was

opened on Mar. 1, 1948, and .

called the Red Cross Hospital.
Dr. Mills also received help at
this time when Dr. Frank McGil-
Ivry arrived in’ Terrace, and in
1950 with the arrival of Drs. M.

Wier and Roger Hicks. »

The Red ‘Cross decided in
1951. that the town should
operate the hospital, and on
Dec, 1 the Terrace and District
Association paid $5,000 for the
facility and, through service club
donations, it was expanded to 20
beds six’ months - later, Dr.
R.E.M, Lee moved to Terrace
five years later in 1956 to prac-
tice medicine in the Terrace and
District Hospital.

It was pointed out by Don
Cooper that Terrace was not an
‘isolated’? community at that:
time and had regular ‘daytime
CP Air flights to Vancouver
with Convair aircraft.

Terrace was growing rapidly
in the fifties and construction

‘Jeffrey Kennedy was sentenc-
-ed to, 14 days in jail and given a
‘six-month : driver’s license. sus-

the new 40-bed Terrace - and

‘District Hospital. The new

pension: in Terrace provincial

court on Friday, August 14 for
driving while disqualified.

facility was opened in March,
1961,and in 1962 the name was
changed in honor df Dr. Mills to
Mills Memorial Hospital...

A $1,200,000 expansion pro-
ject was completed in.1968, in-
creasing the hospital to 87 beds.
At that time the hospital had 12

doctors, a4 radiologist, a
Pathologist and 135 staff
members, | ;

Mills Memorial was further |
expanded to its existing size in
following years, and now pro-

vides the Terrace area with a

modern, efficient building and a_
professional Staff. ==

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sentenced to 30 days in jail in
Terrace court on Friday, August
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