History
Montreal General Hospital was founded in 1819. At this time, Montreal had two existing hospitals: the Grey Nuns' General Hospital and the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.
The growing needs of the population led to some charities, among them the Female Benevolent Society of Montreal and the Society for the Relief of Immigrants, to ask for help in building a new hospital.
On May 1, 1819, a house on Craig Street (today Saint Antoine) provided twenty-four beds, while the new hospital was being constructed. The new General Hospital, which counted seventy-two beds on two floors, opened on Dorchester Street (today René Lévesque Boulevard). The hospital was later expanded.
On May 30, 1955, the Montreal General Hospital moved to its present location near Mount Royal on Cedar Avenue, at the corner of Côte-des-Neiges Road and one block north of Pine Avenue.
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