Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 6:28:47 GMT
Named for Lt.-Col. Robert Belcher, cavalry officer and charter member of the Northwest Mounted Police, the Belcher Hospital was built as a treatment and convalescent facility for returning Second World War veterans. Five months after the new 250-bed hospital opened in December 1943, an expansion program began that continued into the late 1950s. In 1979, ownership was transferred to the province and, in 1991, the hospital was designated as a long-term care facility for veterans of the First World War, Second World War and the Korean War. The facility is scheduled for closure as a veteran's centre in 2003, when residents relocate to the new Carewest Colonel Belcher Centre currently under construction in northwest Calgary.
cdm280501.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p280501coll7/id/380
All that remained in 2012 were two memorial plaques.
The site of the original hospital.
cdm280501.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p280501coll7/id/380
All that remained in 2012 were two memorial plaques.
The site of the original hospital.