DID YOU KNOW? According to Fisher’s Folly: a history of the Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1946 was baby season at the Ottawa Civic Hospital after an infection caused a month-long shut down at the Salvation Army Maternity Hospital. The Civic’s Department of Obstetrics came to the rescue, taking in nearly 1,000 expectant moms and babies. One particular day in June saw 22 babies delivered, prompting this comment from the Chair of the Board of Trustees at the time, E. Norman Smith: “There was such a flood of babies that we didn’t have enough bassinets and we had to use butcher baskets…procured from Canada Packers Limited.”
