Inauguration of the Saint-Joseph Hospital

The Lachine Hospital, formerly known as the Saint-Joseph Hospital, was created through the efforts of the former parish priest of Lachine, Joseph-Télesphore Savaria, who wished to build a hospital for his parishioners.

The Sisters  of Providence were then responsible for  running the hospital, at the request of Archbishop Paul Bruchési. At the time it was built, the valuation of the five-storey building was $56,000.

The official opening  took place on March 19, 1914, the Feast day  of Saint Joseph. The first patient admitted  was a poor person: an elderly man named Emmanuel Brisebois. 

The Saint-Joseph Hospital circa 1913 on rue St-Louis. Inset photo, Sister Marie-Oseline, first Mother Superior of the hospital, from 1913 to 1914.