James E.

I was born at the Civic, my two children were born at the Civic, my father passed away at the Civic and my mother worked at the Civic.

Janice O.

Three generations born at the Civic hospital. Myself, my daughters and my grandchildren. 1957-2023.

Judith C.

As an Ottawa Civic Hospital graduate nurse (1966 class), and now retired public health nurse, come writer, I published a novel last year whose principal character becomes a patient at the new Civic Hospital in 1925, after her family move to Ottawa from the country. I tried to capture what her actual hospital stay would […]

Remika M.

44 years ago my mother who had immigrated to Canada from India gave birth to me at the Civic; 44 years later I am proud to say that I am a speech pathologist who has been employed with The Ottawa Hospital for over 10 years and presently working at the Civic with the neurology service […]

Christine L.

I graduated from the Civic Hospital School of Nursing in 1971 from a 3 year program. There was always an initiation the first 2 weeks of school where the older students would make the newbies do all kinds of silly things like dancing in the middle of Carling Ave or dressing up downtown. This song […]

Inez K.

This story was told to me by my Aunt Mary Kettles in 1993. Charles Kettles, my grandfather, had a farm on the 7th line (now Leitrim Road) and was building up his Holstein herd. He had bought a registered bull named Paul Count Pegee. The day of the accident was Thursday, December 19, 1929. Tom, […]

John M.

My wife Colleen and I were expecting our second child Sarah on May 13, 1983. March 13th, I was away on a Health & Safety course in Brockville Ontario. I receive a call from my sister-in-law Connie at 6;30 am., telling me to get back home because my wife was taken to the Ottawa Civic […]

Joseph Z.

In 1951 my Dad (Joseph Augustus Zebarth) called a Doctor because my brother (Alfred) was not feeling well. The doctor surmised that he may have Polio. As we lived in the country in White Lake, ON and our vehicle was a 1928 Whippet, my Dad hired a taxi to take my brother to the hospital […]

Kelly B.

I started working at the Civic Hospital July 3, 1984, I was So blessed to work at the Civic. I worked in Support Services — was the best place to work at the time. I worked everywhere within the Hospital, taking Patients to Emergency, X-ray, Nuclear Medicine , Operating Room. I retired 2019, I miss […]

Louise L.

Graduated from OCH in 1971.