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Allen Gray Auxiliary Hospital fonds
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1 m of textual records
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In 1952, nine Edmonton women, led by Isabel Debney, created the Gray House Guild to raise money for the construction of a small nursing home for elderly patients and the convalescence of people who had been released from hospital and required further attention. Named for Edmonton's first Anglican Bishop, the Right Reverend Henry Allen Gray, the stated purpose of the group was to own, equip, and operate a small private nursing home primarily, but not exclusively, for elderly patients. The Guild incorporated under Alberta's Societies act in 1955, and began to lobby the federal, provincial, and municipal governments for their support of the hospital proposal. With revenue generated through its fundraising efforts and with grants from the federal and provincial governments the Gray House Guild officially opened its 50 bed Allen Gray Auxiliary Hospital in January 1963 on land donated by the City of Edmonton overlooking the Mill Creek ravine.
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This fonds contains administrative records of the Allen Gray Auxiliary Hospital and the Gray House Guild, including correspondence, financial reports, board minutes, and planning. There is also material related to the hospital's history project and the publication of "Gray House - How it Grew." It also includes a number of publications on social welfare, private hospitals, and the needs of an aging population.
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Gray House Guild via Dorothy Hodgson
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Accession number: A96-121
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